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The plan to turn Philadelphia into what Mayor Street calls “the first completely wireless city in the country” is moving ahead, but with possible delays. Back on Oct. 3, Dianah Neff, the city’s Chief Information Officer, announced an agreement with Earthlink under which the ISP would finance and build a city-wide Wi-Fi broadband network for [...]

Was just watching the Daily Show and as a somewhat giddy Jon Stewart cut to the first commercial, they showed a clip of the president with his arms around a bunch of other happy Americans singing Jingle Bells in the true Christmas spirit. Except George didn’t seem to know the lyrics!?! I’m Jewish and I [...]

We already know that even South Africa is more progessive than the US in many ways. So its particularly disturbing that our leadership is actively seeking to turn back the clock on the social progress this nation has slowly made over the last half century and return to that idealized America that only exists in [...]

South Africa is a truly remarkable country. Despite a long history of apartheid and general racial strife in the most ethnically diverse nation on the African continent, South Africa has the largest economy and the most modern infrastructure in the region. While we’ve seen the results of American supported reactionary criminal justice in Iraq, South [...]

“Gillick Batting 1.000â€? I was far from pleased when I learned of the Phillies replacement for Ed Wade. Don’t get me wrong – ridding the organization of Wade was the best decision since trading Bobby Abreu to the Astros for Kevin Stocker. A close second has to be signing free-agent Danny Tartabull, who broke his [...]