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• The drought watch is over! I’m sure those along the riverbanks are thrilled. [KYW 1060]
• Apparently, there’s a superhero quizzo at the Franklin Institute tonight. Featuring QuizzoMan, who I am sure will be used as a (grade school joke alert) robot boss in Mega Man later this year. [Johnny Goodtimes]
• New Jersey doesn’t have a budget yet. And the state’s going to shut down all the casinos, beaches, etc., if one doesn’t pass. Jon Corzine bought a cot for his office. No, really. [Inquirer]
• Neither does Pennsylvania. Ed Rendell bought 500 hoagies for his office. Okay, not really. [KYW 1060]
• If you ever wanted to hear Chris Webber quote Old School, your wish has been answered. [Mr. Irrelevant's Sports Blog]
• Headline in the Inquirer: “Why not a gay Superman?” [Inquirer]
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dmac | 4:30 PM | 1 Comment
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Okay, get your talking points ready, people! Phoenix is larger, it can annex land, who the hell wants to live in Phoenix anyway and so forth.
Update: A reader IM’s…
reader: where the hell is nbc10 getting its info???
reader: from NYT:
reader: “The only change in population ranking among the nation’s 10 largest cities was that San Antonio supplanted San Diego in seventh place, although Phoenix came within fewer than 2,500 people of taking over fifth place from Philadelphia, as it will almost certainly do in next year’s estimates.”
pwddmac: i dunno, it’s an ap story
reader: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/us/21cities.html
reader: how could the AP or reuters fuck up the same story with conflicting numbers?
reader: (that’s rhetorical, natch)
pwddmac: From the article: “A special mid-decade census in 2005 estimated Phoenix has nearly 1,476,000 residents, up 155,000 from the year 2000.
Census numbers from July 2004 put Philly’s population at 1,470,000 — a number that has been declining by an average of 860 residents a month.”
reader: there is no such thing as a “special mid-decade census” — they’re all estimates for years not ending in 0
reader: stupid AP
So, uhh… yeah, I dunno. After a little searching, I found the AP story came from info from The Arizona Republic. But all I found on that site was a bunch of Philly-bashing articles from by a former Wharton dean. If it weren’t Friday, I’d search a little more — and probably make fun of that ex-Wharton dean — but, uh, well, it’s Friday. And I plan on being asleep or drinking soon.
Phoenix Replaces Philly As 5th Largest City [AP/NBC 10]
List of U.S. cities by population [Wikipedia]
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dmac | 3:36 PM | 3 Comments
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You might think that former president and noted womanizer Bill Clinton doesn’t have much to do with Brett Myers’ arrest. Then again, you might not be obsessed with him.
Writing in today’s Evening Bulletin, Michael P. Tremoglie accuses Bill Clinton of beating up a woman, too, and whines that Clinton was allowed to make his next scheduled start in the rotation without any condemnation:
The reaction by feminists to the alleged spousal abuse by Phillies’ pitcher Brett Myers is an excellent example of vile hypocrisy. It would even be amusing if it were not so pathetic. The condemnations of Myers by feminists (and holier-than-thou hypocritical journalists) were swift, certain and loud. [...]
Contrast NOW’s reaction to a baseball player’s alleged spousal assault to their statements regarding similar allegations of assault against a female (albeit not his wife) by a President of the United States, Bill Clinton. NOW made this tepid 1998 statement about the alleged assault of Kathleen Willey, “If the chief executive of the United States uses that position of power in the way that’s been alleged, it has a very serious impact on women in the workplace.”
We will never know the truth about Broaddrick’s accusation of sexual assault by Clinton? Why? Because it was twenty years old? Or because he was a Democrat president who favored abortion? [...]
The only people who believe them are liberals - and to paraphrase Ronald Reagan - it is not that liberals do not know anything, it is that so much of what they know is not true.
If anyone comes up with a phrase that’s roughly 10 times stronger than “holier than thou,” let me know, because I’d like to apply it to Tremoglie. If this column weren’t so pathetic — aren’t columns supposed to convince someone of something rather than just preach to the choir? — it’d be amusing. Oh, wait. It is amusing.
A Tale of Two Abusers [Evening Bulletin]
If you’re wondering, yes, that headline says both men are guilty. I dunno.
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dmac | 3:16 PM | 2 Comments
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Eddie Griffin, the Philadelphia-born basketball star who attended and then was kicked out of Roman Catholic, was in a car accident in March. Okay, nothing big there. But then a lawsuit was filed by the owner of the car he hit.
Here’s the, uh, money shot:
The suit alleges that Griffin was watching a pornographic DVD in his SUV and masturbating when he crashed about 2:30 a.m. on March 30. Griffin, 24, had told the Star Tribune a day after the accident that a dropped cell phone caused him to crash.
Tee hee.
Tape shows Wolves’ Griffin in store after accident [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
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dmac | 1:56 PM | 1 Comment
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Barry Saltzburg, from Nevada, writes:
What’s become of my Great Northeast?
I grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and attended Fels Jr. High and Northeast High School, graduating in 1964, at which time I promptly entered the Marine Corps.
It was a safe and great neighborhood both when I left for Parris Island and when I returned from overseas. Oh yeah, there were the occasional fights between kids on Castor Avenue but with fists, no knives, no guns.
The entire section was clean and you could leave only your screen doors open at night, unlocked. No graffiti on the walls of Northeast or George Washington high schools. What happened? I now live in Nevada.
You can take the kid out of Philly but you cannot take Philly out of the kid, so with that in mind I return often, only to get more depressed when I see the old neighborhood.
Heck, the city does not even attempt to mow the grass when one first enters onto the Boulevard from the north.
What a first impression of Philly. The World War II generation, our parents, used to speak often of how nice the old neighborhoods of Strawberry Mansion and Mount Airy were or Germantown with their huge homes. Now look at them. I fear that the Oxford Circle is destined for the same fate. It’s a shame. What happened? Now cops are getting killed on Castor Avenue, the Northeast is undermanned by police and mailmen are being stabbed.
We may as well just refer to the Northeast as North Philly — what’s the difference? I suppose it would not be politically correct to even discuss it, so I will leave it at that.
Sweet. Oxford Circle would be so much better if it were more like Mount Airy.
What’s become of my Great Northeast? [Northeast Times]
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dmac | 12:47 PM | 9 Comments
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In case you’re wondering: The comment says it’s from a breeder, not a pet store or anything.
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dmac | 12:20 PM | 0 Comments
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Today’s Joe Sixpack column by Don Russell is simply fantastic. Let’s take a look at the highlights:
That’s exactly what Rick Zinger and Ray Sefscik, a pair of energetic Coors salesmen, hope they’ve done inside Duffy’s Pop & Beer in Pleasant Hills, just outside Pittsburgh. The pair carefully stacked more than 8,000 30-packs of Coors Light, creating a 15-foot-high mountain that features a steaming locomotive riding atop wheels crafted from eight stainless steel kegs.
“We wanted people to come in and say, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of beer,’ ” said Sefscik.
As soon as I heard someone say “world’s biggest” and “beer” in the same sentence, I jumped into my car and drove 300 miles across the state to see it. [...]
Big, bigger and biggest has always been the key to effective beer merchandising, whether it’s giant, inflatable cans or giant, inflatable breasts. The goal is to get the target audience - which is to say, guys - to drop their jaws and say, “Oh, Lord, I gotta get me some of that.”
Still, I dunno, Joe. (Er, Don.) I like the idea of a giant beer tower, but I don’t really know what you could do to convince me to drink Coors Light.
Joe Sixpack | 8,000+ packs of beer on the wall [Daily News]
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dmac | 11:47 AM | 4 Comments
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