Breaking: Phila. Residents With Connections Get Perks

Back when Dan Rubin ran Blinq as a daily blog, everybody read his posts no matter how good or bad they were because he was, for better or worse, the Philadelphia paper of record’s official blogger. Then a while back they pulled him off the blog full-time and gave him a column. Now nobody under the age of 35 reads his stuff anymore, because while they know he writes one of the paper’s metro columns, they can never be bothered to find the thing on the website.

Well, well, well! Rubin wrote a column yesterday that quite a few people read. Specifically, police officers read his column. To be more specific, the kinds of police officers (and cop wannabes) who post on Domelights read his column. Don’t get too excited at once; the media in this town is still too terrified to write about any actual problems with our local cops. No, Rubin wrote about the free parking cops get at sporting events down at the sports complex.

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