Hitler Is A Cowboys Fan

This is too funny.

Update: Apparently, this video is great for subtitling. Thanks, Eric!

[via Iggles Blog]

Nazis Infiltrating City’s Classical Music Scene

Dan Rottenberg’s arts-and-culture online magazine, Broad Street Review, is quickly becoming a daily read for anyone interested in the Telenova-like plotlines of classical music aficionados, i.e. “Please tell Mr. Zaller, that Christoph Eschenbach has been sacked for crimes too egregious to enumerate.”

But, recently, I keep seeming to see references to Nazis in what one might assume was relatively a Nazi-free zone (the Philadelphia arts and culture scene).

Editor Rottenberg:

The power of critics to make or break performers is vastly overrated. Eschenbach is a big boy who’s been through a lot worse than bad reviews. He was left a speechless orphan at age five after witnessing the death of his grandmother and great-grandmother, for goodness’ sake. If after surviving the Nazis he can’t handle hostile critics wielding pens, he has no business conducting a major-league orchestra.

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I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To: Godwin’s Law

After a one-week hiatus, I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To returns this week, keeping you informed about State Rep. Mark B. Cohen’s favorite place on the Internet.

Sometimes, even the stupidest people on the Internet outdo themslves. One particular poster this week on Phillyblog really takes the cake. It concerns our new friend Muhammad Shaukat. Continue on for the nitty gritty.

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Leftovers: First They Came For The Marlboro Men, And I Did Not Speak Out Because I Was Not A Marlboro Man…

• The Bulletin on the Smoking Ban: “The anti-smoking Nazis have passed their first Nuremberg law, and more will follow.” Because if you can’t compare genocidal facism to a not being able to light up in a bar, what can you compare it to? [Bulletin]

• The Inquirer’s Marc Narducci asks if Eagles fans are overrated because he saw a few people leaving the game early Sunday. As a commenter pointed out, the Eagles certainly left the game before any of their fans did. And who the hell is Marc Narducci (or anyone, really) able to judge who is a “true” fan or not? That being said, Eagles fans did get way too many votes in the most recent AP poll. [Eye on the Eagles]

• Your three new City Councilpeople come November, ladies and gentlemen: Carol Campbell, William Greenlee and Daniel Savage. How many people saw that list and said, “Wait. The writer of Savage Love is running for City Council?” [AP/Philly.com]

• Terrell Owens is now “likely” to rejoin the Dallas Cowboys for their Oct. 8 game at the Linc. ARAMARK breathes sigh of relief, buys 50 billion kegs of Bud Light in advance of game. [AP/Yahoo!]

• And now for the latest edition of Northeast-Philadelphian-In-Space: The shuttle Atlantis has had its return delayed due to a piece of debris that may have floated out of the craft. They’re likely to return Thursday or Friday now, upon which Chris Ferguson will get a celebratory shopping spree at Franklin Mills. [AP/CNN.com]

Great moments in discourse

Remember the SEPTA strike? Man, that seems like forever ago. Basically all I remember at this point is writing a piece for PW that wasn’t published (since the strike ended and the piece became moot) and Transit Workers Union spokesman Bob Bedard comparing the workers’ strike to Rosa Parks.

Sometimes we can sink lower than that, though. The Daily News wrote an editorial recently-ish that called for a ban on transit strikes, citing the public chaos they often cause. There’s room for a thoughtful debate about whether transit strikes should be against the law, but you’re certainly not going to get into that debate with AFSCME District Council 47 President Thomas Paine Cronin:

We can’t help but notice that it’s always workers who get slammed in the newspapers, not managers or employers; that it’s always workers facing injunctions, fines and threats of jail, not the managers or company owner. And it’s not hard to see why. Unions own no media. We don’t have public relations personnel or judges in our pockets.

Banning strikes by transit workers, teachers or any other group of workers is profoundly undemocratic. Where does it stop? If you want to ensure that the public, and employers, are never inconvenienced, why not ban all strikes? Hitler and Mussolini did.

Man, know who’s also for outlawing strikes? Satan.

Strike is tool of last resort for workers [DN]
Oct. 31, 2005: We’re getting there, on foot