Culture
Hey! Remember when you were in kindergarten? Me neither. How about 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade? Remember where you sat, or next to whom? I can remember my teachers and sort-of remember what I was instructed — reading, for sure. Probably a little math, a little geography, history, and civics. I
Journalism
It’s back to the future for the Philadelphia Weekly, which is returning to an abandoned format that probably insures failure. You don’t believe me? Ask the City Paper, PW’s now-deceased one-time competitor and twin alt weekly. Back in 2020, PW Publisher Dan McDonough Jr. was running the
Culture
I’ve been avoiding this subject because I don’t want to bring any pain to my (two) trans women friends. But reality overpowers kindness, I’m afraid. Let’s start with a simple fact. In physical sports, we don’t allow adults to compete against children. We don’t
Drugs
Is the Department of Justice playing Philadelphians dirty, as was claimed Wednesday afternoon? More on that in a moment. Federal law prohibits places that sell or enable the use of illegal drugs. That’s why, last year, an appeals court ruled against Philadelphia’s attempt to open a “supervised injection
Joe Biden
President Joe Biden’s approval rating is around 37%, which would be a fabulous batting average for a MLB slugger, but it’s about as bad as it gets for a chief executive. So one goal of Tuesday’s State of the Union address is to lift that number. That’
Racism
It looks like some woke school boards’ misshapen ideas of “equity” is getting blowback here and there. Just a couple of weeks ago, three members of the San Francisco school board were recalled and lost their jobs for incompetence. One of their grotesque ideas was getting rid of entrance exams
Russia
The war rages on in Ukraine, but Vladimir Putin and Russia have already lost. Not the physical fight — Russia’s armed-to-the-teeth military may prevail on the battlefield -- but Putin has lost the PR war. The world has turned against him. Even his new ally China did not vote with
Russia
No U.S. military will fight in Ukraine, but we will fight at home. It will not be a missile attack — not even the overreaching Vladimir Putin is that nuts. More likely he will launch a cyber attack against our infrastructure. The power grid is — astonishingly — vulnerable. So is air
Russia
Update: On his 2/24 show, Carlson admitted Putin was the aggressor. Let’s start with Tucker Carlson, who knows he’ll never win an Edward R. Murrow award, so has set his sights on the Lenin Award. We will also end with him. There’s a lot of confusion
Russia
It’s around midnight and war has begun in Eastern Europe. It is Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s war, pure and simple. The early hours were reported by AP.https://apnews.com/article/626a8c5ec22217bacb24ece60fac4fe1 Russia has marched into a neighbor, something we have not seen since the prelude to
Journalism
At this time of year, columnists and essayists have a choice of three hackneyed traditional topics to write about -- year in review, predictions, resolutions. They’ve been done to death. Always a trail-blazer, I am going to combine all three. I expect Loyal Readers will be able to recognize
Politics
Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch is a guilty pleasure for me, as is Christine Flowers, kicked out of the inquirer, but now published in the Delaware County Daily Times. Bunch is my connection to the Looney Left, Flowers to the Wing-Nut Right. I agree with her maybe half the