It gives me pause to even broach the Arthur Kade subject again now that my skull and brain is, you know, healed. But I must. For it brings closure to all of us who rode the Kade train into the…
The Metro Week That Was
By now, many of you know that I’ve started a gig as a full-time Metro Philadelphia staff writer. If you didn’t, surprise! In any case, I’m going to try to link to, or cut-and-paste, my Metro stories regularly here. But…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Nuttin But Blurbs — and video –Edition)
On sneaky pro-life strategies: “The right-to-life folks are seeing just how far they can push things,” said Joseph W. Dellapenna, a law professor at Villanova University and the author of “Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History.” Professor Dellapenna said it…
Syphilitic Magic Number*
Big news in SMN Land: Trembley fired! Juan Samuel hired!!! (Well, promoted, but still.) The upside? In their first game under a new regime, the Baltimore Whorioles lost 11-0, thus dropping their stellar record to 15-39, and the SMN* to…
Hit-and-Run America, Vol. LXXVII
An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call…
Guy: I know where the person who hit-and-ran with my car is, but nobody will help.
I got an email this morning from a dude from Baltimore thanking me for my blog. No, not because I got Orioles manager Dave Trembley fired. The hit-and-run stuff. He wanted me to keep his name to myself, which is…
Makin’ It Rain, Junior-Style
I don’t know where you come down on the “God: Real or Fable” issue. But either way, I want to thank him for allowing Daniel Tosh back on American airwaves. Because I would never have seen this otherwise. And, if…
1,000 Words on the Flyers
Top 10 things I want for my birthday
Whatever. I’m still closer to 35 than 40. But driving in to work today, I got to thinking about what I’d want for June 3 if the world was perfect. Here’s what I came up with. Happy birthday to me.…