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Millennials would slay ‘Secret Santa’

December 14, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 18 Comments

Let’s start here: I am no fan of segmenting — or segregating — people by generational cohort, meaning slicing and…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Millennials, Secret Santa

Santa baby, with a sack full of trouble

November 17, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 8 Comments

Did you ever believe in Santa Claus? I did, and that was so long ago if you said old Saint…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Santa Claus

Kids, you like communism? Ask the Germans

November 9, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 21 Comments

Across the millennia, nations have built walls to protect themselves from outsiders, from China (you can see the Great Wall…

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Posted in: Communism, Culture Filed under: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie sanders, Capitalism

Time to attack the deadbeat culture

October 17, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 24 Comments

I’m not surprised that some students staged a sit-in to protest possible expulsion from Thomas Jefferson University for failure to…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Late Fees, Schools

The barber of Broad Street

September 21, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 6 Comments

I call this guy the Barber of Broad Street, giving free haircuts to the homeless on the center island, conveniently …

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Posted in: Culture, Homelessness Filed under: Broad Street, Wawa

Return of the horseless carriage

September 4, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 10 Comments

The familiar clippety-clop of horseshoes on asphalt in Society Hill could become a thing of the past. Years of protests…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Horse-drawn carriages, Mark Squilla

Root of the dental problem

August 31, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 7 Comments

Ice cream broke my tooth? Sounds a little like “man bites dog,” but it happens. The other night, after a…

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Posted in: Culture, Uncategorized Filed under: 1500 Market Street, Claes Oldenburg, Clothespin, Dr. Josh Wolgin, Dr. Steve Gilbert

Diner en Blanc, or Diner en Whack?

August 24, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 5 Comments

The returns are in, and despite fawning media coverage that approaches adultery, the Diner en Blanc phenomenon is attracting criticism,…

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Posted in: Culture Filed under: Center City, Parkway, picnic

Bad actors on environment

August 19, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 6 Comments

A peculiar, unexpected link has been discovered between the Christchurch and El Paso mass murderers.  Both are green, or “ecofascists,”…

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Posted in: Culture, Immigration, Mass shootings Filed under: Alexandia Ocasio Cortez, Ecofascists, Washington Post

The Walmart diary

August 15, 2019 Stu Bykofsky 8 Comments

While visiting family in West Virginia last week, I got to go to Walmart on two consecutive days in two…

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Posted in: Culture, Family, Uncategorized Filed under: Grandchildren, Walmart, West Virginia

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