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When I was 15 or 16 me and my buddies used to think it was cool to go to Manayunk, buy cigars, and walk around like we owned the place. Such is life growing up in the suburbs.
Thank god for Tom DeLay – always looking out for the average American. He’s always been strongly anti-Cuba [...]

A lot of interesting stuff has been going on politically this week:

Locally we’ve only got a few weeks left until the May 17th primary election. The lefty Philadelphia blogosphere is abuzz about Seth Williams who’s running for district attorney against the incumbent Lynne Abraham. You may remember LA as the DA who pressed for [...]

Last night I hit Standard Tap with a friend from college. We worked in theatre together when I was there; he’s still in school, a few days and one fall semester class short of graduating. We ended up on the topic of legacies, and he assured me that I had a lasting legacy [...]

While I was quite a consumer of online downloads and Napster in its first incarnation, since college I have endeavored to pay for (most of) the music that I listen to. Just about my favorite thing in the worlds these days is Rhapsody which for $9.95 a month, less than the cost of a single [...]

History is full of those era-defining moments when everyone stops what they’re doing, turns to their radio, television, or computer, and simply watches with awe and terror. For my parents generation it was the 1963 shooting of John F. Kennedy or the killings of Dr. King and RFK. For those of us too young to [...]

A few weeks ago I saw the show posted on the TLA website: Handsome Boy Modeling School. April 16. 11 pm. My long-suffering boyfriend and I do a lot of things at 11 pm on a Saturday, like:a. Think about watching SNLb. Put on pajamasc. Go to bedClearly, seeing a late-night hip-hop [...]

For quite a while now on the web, Google has set the standard for usability, functionality, and just plain likability as an Internet company. The search engine has been consistently the best on the web for most of 5 years now and they are THE company, besides Yahoo, that truly showed the viability of online [...]

This is hysterical.
Tonight is a big, big night. Let’s go Sixers.

If you read any of the blogs in the left/liberal/progressive blogosphere then you’ve probably encountered the excellent writing of Joshua Micah Marshall over at Talking Points Memo. Since Bush’s re-election and resulting assault on Social Security, JMM has devoted most of his posts to a point by point dissection and refutation of Bush and his [...]