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…
Category: Local Politics
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…
Hey Tea Partiers…
Congratulations on your ignorance prevailing in the form of “let’s shoot down school budgets to show those teachers who’s f’ing boss” in Jersey yesterday. Be proud when packs of feral youths climb through your windows and rape your kitchen appliances…
FlashBackward
I never really wanted to wade into this whole Philly flash-mob thing. But then Judge Kevin Dougherty earned my rarely awarded “he’s the fucking man” award for raining justice down upon lying punks’ heads, before two additional things happened that…
Tuesday Reading Roundup (And How Edition)
Clearly, I didn’t read the funnies on Sunday, as I was out in the Nevada desert. But I’m committed to the print cause, so me read ’em on Tuesday. Ergo, the temporary post-title change. Ta-da. And, thank Jebus I did,…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Bulletpoint Edition)
Oh, so that’s why erbody wanted to rally up and get a piece of the Iraqi-reconstruction sandpie. Kind of saw this one coming, didn’t’I?): Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new…
Dear Casino-Free Philadelphia…
Hey, hope you’re doing well. Listen, instead of sending out emails that include the sentence … The media is one of the framers of the public dialogue on the casino industry, and by working with it we can re-frame that…
Programming Note
UPDATE: Obviously, this is after the fact, but the station had a boxing special on during that time frame. We’ll be on air same bat time, same bat station, but on April 24. Lo siento for the inconvenience. The bride…
This Week’s Metro Column …
… doesn’t have a readily accessible link yet. Good thing I still have a rough-draft here for cutting-and-pasting. Enjoy … The Trashman Speaketh By Brian Hickey As the mayor shared his administration’s screenplay for 2010: A Budget Balancing Odyssey, State…