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Locked out, that’s what I was Thursday morning, locked out. Locked out of what, you ask? Out of the City Council meeting that was going to hear testimony on the insane idea to ban even momentarily stopping in bicycle lanes, a subject I wrote about it last month. Council
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The gray clouds hanging around City Hall Friday noon could do nothing to dispel Mayor Cherelle Parker’s PA-enforced cheerfulness as she announced the start of LGBTQ+ Pride Month (October), plus National Coming Out Day (Oct. ll.) Pride Month is designed to make gays feel good about themselves, and for
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Ah, the Inquirer’s crank case is at it again, spewing and spinning her anti-auto paranoia into a myopic mess built on wishful thinking rather than on reality. It’s like that with cranks, and Inkster Inga Saffron is at the head of the parade, this time inveighing against a
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Following the Harris/Bash interview, I looked at the Facebook home page of two women writers, each well-educated and bitchy. (I mean that in a good way.) The reaction of Lady A: “I’m bored.” Lady B: “She did great.” Now — neither of them was lying. They said what they
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Tom Cotton is the very conservative junior senator from Arkansas, which should guarantee him a certain degree of anonymity, which he has overcome by being 1) very conservative, and 2) very articulate. Maybe not too much of a surprise from a man who got both his undergraduate and law degree
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Editor’s note: On the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, I republish the column that proves “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” was built on a lie. —- Without meaning to, George Floyd has brought us together, both Americans and foreigners. There have been more memorials and protest marches
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The big smear of Kamala Harris is well underway, founded and excited almost exclusively by men. I said almost. There are some female haters out there, too. But the men are the big, fat hypocrites. And I know commenting on a woman’s appearance puts me at risk, but I
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Mary Mason, who for decades was a force in Philadelphia, has died, after a long and sad battle with Alzheimer’s. The Philadelphia Tribune provides details here. The news story doesn’t mention controversy, which could have been her middle name. That’s often a byproduct of being a strong
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You can learn a lot about an author from what s/he [I don’t like “they” when gender is uncertain] thinks is important enough to include on the back cover of a book. Here’s a couple of quotes from Scott Galloway’s “Adrift: America in 100 charts”: “A
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OMG! Am I actually going to defend Howard Eskin? Actually, no. But I am not going to convict him either — not yet. The bombastic, extroverted veteran broadcaster stands accused of attempting to kiss an Aramark employee, against her wishes. Here is the key paragraph in an Inquirer story: “The incident
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Is working from home “now the normal”? That’s what April Gigetts, the president of white-collar AFSCME District Council 47, said in response to Mayor Cherelle Parker’s order that city workers would have to return to their offices starting in July. Gigetts also said change in location of workplace
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Don’t get me wrong — I am very happy Mayor Cherelle Parker has vowed, and has just begun, a street-by-street cleanup of Philadelphia. I just think it is a massive waste of time and money. Why? Too many Philadelphians are pigs. There’s too much trash in the streets. How