Consider it a day of visitors. As in Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi in town to raise money for U.S. Rep. candidate Bryan Lentz at the Sheraton in Center City … By the time Vice President Joe Biden was escorted…
Category: Local Politics
Weekend Reading Roundup (50 Minutes Till First Pitch Edition)
Go Cubs Go. — “If they don’t want my people out there, then there’s an easy way to send us home: Secure the border. We’ll put our guns back on the shelf, and that’ll be the end of that.” Says…
Dept. of Credit Where Credit’s Due
I’ll be the first to admit I haven’t been easy on Gov. Chris Christie. This is because 1) I feel he’s too arrogant for his own good and 2) I wanted to move back to Jersey when I had a…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Parenthood* and Deadspin** Delays)***
I pride myself on timeliness, so I apologize about my tardiness. It isn’t the weekend anymore, right? So how can I justify recommend weekend reading material? Shame upon me. But I’m a gone do it anyhow. Because I also pride…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Louden’s Birth Week Edition)
What kind of dad would I be if I didn’t squeeze a baby pic into a post that has nothing whatsoever to do with my boy, Louden Charles Hickey. Since L.C. is pining for some fatherly cuddling, I’ll make this…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Concise Q&A Edition)
— Should Comcast have to sell CNBC should its proposed merger be approved as expected? Bloomberg says yes. — Are the state budgets of Pennsylvania and New Jersey about to get backed into a handbasket and shipped down to Hades?…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Bring Me Darin Strauss’ Head on a Hubcap Edition)
— Remember that link a couple weeks back to the Suicide Catcher over on that jumpers’ paradise of a bridge in China? There’s also one on a cliff in Australia, and Don Ritchie’s saved 160 lives there. (Inquirer, via AP).…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Violent Underpinnings Edition)
You’ll have to excuse me for being short-and-sweet here today. You see, I’ve spent the past two hours in a “debate” on Twitter with those who took offense to a taken-literally “I’d still give a Sarah Palin GMILF van-gangbang video…
This Week’s Metro Column…
… can be found here. It features a reference to Thunderdome, and this sentence: Each candidate in the May 18 gubernatorial primary has a distinct education-reform position. It’s time to make them the focal issue of an unremarkable campaign.
Weekend Reading Roundup (Gaydar Strength Edition)
So, I’ve tried to let this whole thing with state Rep. Babette Josephs calling her claimed-bisexual opponent Gregg Kravitz out as a straight dude trying to cull votes from the gay-pride demo slide as unusual-politics-as-usual. But then, I saw Kravitz’s…