Dude from Kensington (allegedly) rapes an 11-year-old girl. Crowd pummels and captures him pre-police arrival. Dude goes to jail, where the caste system treats child rapists like they’re lower than untouchable, which they are. What’s the next chapter? Why, guards…
Category: Philadelphia
You make it too easy, Fox29
Like today, for instance, when a viewer would be left to wonder, “Hmm, is Keri Lee Halkett reporting live (and bug-eyed) from the LSD factory or the magic mushroom farms”? At least “Dude who, if Hallucinating, May Do Some Deviant,…
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Philadelphia Union 3-2 D.C. United
Just got back from the Philly Union’s home debut. Great time. Great scene. Well, I should change that: Great scene once I got inside the stadium onaccounta the greasy, dirty hipstery scum that not only made bike messengers seem like…
This Week’s Metro Column (and Philadelphia Weekly article)
With the new baseball season upon us, I didn’t head down to D.C. to see Halladay start his championship run. Oh no. I headed back to Strawberry Mansion, where the moral of the story is this: The baseball league that…
It’s Always Smokey in Philadelphia
McNabb, McShnabb. You wanna know what I learned already today? That a gram equals roughly 0.035 ounces, which means 30 grams is about 1.05 ounces. You wanna know what else I learned already today? That Philly’s DA Seth Williams is…
B Hop wins, but hospitalized
Wasn’t able to stay up to watch the Bernard Hopkins/Roy Jones Jr. fight post-Duke-disappointment last night, but if the text updates from my friend Tiddie indicate anything, it’s this: Fight was boring, and Jones fouled a lot, which left the…
This Week’s Metro Column (with bonus video and unused quotes)
… is about Bernard Hopkins. Not that he’s fighting Roy Jones Jr. this weekend. But about how he promised to me that he’d pay for a statue to honor Joe Frazier. Class act; true to Philly roots … By Brian…
Compare and contrast …
In this corner, Norman Leboon of Northeast Philly … … versus Theodore “Raleigh” Sakers of Sublime’s early album, via loony-bin wiring … You don’t eat your feedback.
Paging Dr. Lethal Injection…
Back in my college public-speaking class — a lot of good that did — my end-of-semester speech was this, “Rapists should be death-penalty eligible.” Because they should. But it took until this disgusting, sub-human story to make the case for…