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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I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To: Of Raj, Chris Brennan And Liberty County

Yeah, yeah, a day late. It’s going to be a short edition, too, with a couple of older threads in it, as it’s now Friday, and we’re three weeks into this IRPSYDHT thing, which means it’s time for yours truly to get a little tired of it. Hell, I haven’t even sent last week’s Thread! Of! The! Week! winner Mark B. Cohen his prize yet.

But, I’ll soldier on, continuing to read Phillyblog so you don’t have to. (Maybe next week, I’ll even make up a logo!) Come with me after the jump.

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I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To: Smoking Ban

With Mayor Street’s sudden enforcement of the smoking ban earlier this week, the Phillyblog forums predictably exploded in a cloud of nicotine, tar, tobacco and Surgeon General’s warnings. (Joe Camel, sadly, did not make it.)

For this week’s second installment of I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To, it’s going to be an all smoking ban edition! (If you really enjoyed The Press Releases I Get In My Inbox — and, really, who didn’t enjoy that earth-shattering event — I just moved it to Friday, in honor of it being an info dump, and Friday not ever having anything going on.) After the jump, an attempt to parse just what PB is thinking about the smoking ban. (I didn’t even include the photos people were posting of George Burns, Einstein and FDR smoking to prove that smoking is great.) There’ll also be a non-smoking ban related Thread! Of! The! Week!

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I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To: A Chicken In Every Pot And A Dunkin Donuts On Every Corner

Ahh, Phillyblog. As Mark B. Cohen might write, Phillyblog is “one of the most important media in Philadelphia today.” Oh, wait, he did write that.

Yes, indeedy, the last time I mentioned Phillyblog — and State Rep. Mark B. Cohen’s wish to have a “Phillyblog Day” — the faithful AOL For Dummies reader responded via comment, saying that Phillyblog members “are a major news source that professional journalists ignore at their peril.”

If there’s one thing I absolutely do not want, it is to be put in perilous situation simply by ignoring an Internet messageboard. But I care about you, dear reader, I really do. And I don’t want you — professional journalist or otherwise — to be put in said perilous situation. With that in mind, today Philadelphia Will Do launches “I Read Phillyblog So You Don’t Have To,” a weekly look at one of the most important mediums in Philadelphia today. If you see an excellent Phillyblog thread (excellent for whatever reason) and think it’d fit in IRPSYDHT (prounounced “eye-rock-paper-scissors-why-D-hat”), simply send an email to dmac@philadelphiawilldo.com.

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