Archive for the 'survival' Category

Piggies Redux

Most of this post is built from an email i just shared with another blogger, betting him that the Democrats will be unable to pass tax cuts for the middle- and working-classes only:
Hamsher’s line about “it’s christmas for god sakes” really hit me hard.
From 2005-2008, I worked at a human services organization here in [...]

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Hamsher Speak, You Listen

You can watch the whole thing here.
and call me a firebagger all you want: jane hamsher has passion and grit that you rarely see anywhere else.

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Brendan Calling: Way Ahead of the Pack

Posted by Brendan on November 22nd, 2010 filed in Philadelphia, history, journamilism, media, slots parlors, survival, writing

Me, January 25, 2010:
I have a proposal to save the rotting hulk of the United States.
No, no, I don’t mean the country. I mean the S.S. United States, that glorious liner that’s decaying slowly on Pier 82 off Columbus Boulevard, where it’s been dry-docked for over a decade. It was the fastest ocean liner ever [...]

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Philadelphia Newspapers For Sale, But Philadelphia Newspapers Yawn At News

Posted by Brendan on April 23rd, 2010 filed in Christine Flowers is an Idiot., Philadelphia, criticism, internets and toobz, media, survival

[note: i'll be reformatting those screen shots later today].
It’s 8:40 in the morning and I should be getting ready for work. Instead, I’m running late because I was listening to WHYY’s Sue Phillips do a fantastic piece on today’s auction, which will see the bankrupt Philadelphia Media Holdings sold off to the highest bidder. [...]

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Brian Tierney’s Stinky Doesn’t Grasp the Concept of “NEWS”

As I’ve noted before, there’s a good reason WHY I don’t read the Stinky, a/k/a the floundering Philadelphia Inquirer: since taking over as publisher, Brian Tierney has presided over what Daniel U-A rightly identifies as “the Right-Wing Hackifying of the Inquirer Op-Ed Pages”. And boy oh boy, did Tierney’s fishwrapper STINK this weekend, publishing [...]

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What Republicans Don’t think Americans Need

Posted by Brendan on January 29th, 2009 filed in elections, politics, right wing dingalings, survival, youtube

via Clammy C at Daily Kos notes that every single republican in the house voted NO on Obama’s proposed stimulus:
So here is a partial list of the programs that republicans think America doesn’t need (and I will say that there are alternative proposals by House republicans, including one by my own odious Representative, Scott Garrett, [...]

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WHEN WILL THE EAGLES SETTLE THEIR DEBT AND SAVE OUR LIBRARIES?

D-E-A-D-B-E-A-T-S!
If Jeff Lurie and the Eagles won’t settle the team’s debt, the mayor, everyone on city council, every paper in town, and every fan from every neighborhood should be screaming bloody murder until they do.
The Daily News has printed one single editorial about this. To the best of my knowledge, the Inquirer has said nothing [...]

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Why is the Inky Covering a Corporate Deadbeat Team?

Posted by Brendan on November 27th, 2008 filed in Philadelphia, calling bullshit, corporate deadbeats, depression, economy, football, survival
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Ed Snider Does a Good Thing

Posted by Brendan on November 26th, 2008 filed in Philadelphia, depression, economy, survival

looks like someone stepped up to the plate:
A public-private partnership is stepping up to save three city skating rinks whose futures were on thin ice.
Mayor Nutter and Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast-Spectacor, announced yesterday that the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation would take over operation and programming at three rinks that officials said were targeted [...]

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Weekend Protests

Posted by Brendan on November 14th, 2008 filed in Philadelphia, calling bullshit, civil rights, direct action, equal rights, glbtq, survival

National Protest for Gay Rights
I’ve never written that much about gay rights issues. I have a few gay friends, but it’s never been a major focus of my political consciousness. In the wake of Proposition 8, I’m seeings quite a bit differently. I don’t like bigots. I especially don’t like religiously motivated [...]

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