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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 [...]

I got this via email today and thought it was pretty interesting. We hate America, right? DEMOCRATS: * Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade. * John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts. * Walter Mondale: Army [...]

Hey, we might be two games behind those evil Giants in the standings, but this is just priceless. Apparently Shockey thought they’d already won the game. Guess not. Via For The Birds.

I’d read in someone’s column that there had been a brief disturbance on field during Sunday’s Eagles’ victory. But the full story is remarkable: A man arrested for running onto the field during the Philadelphia Eagles’ game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday told police he was spreading his late mother’s ashes.[...] As he [...]

“Bloched Bid� Arbitrator Richard Bloch ruled today in favor of the punishment handed down to outspoken and maligned wide receiver Terrell Owens by the Philadelphia Eagles. Let me just say that I am SHOCKED. I did not think there was any way that the suspension would be upheld. There was every indication from insiders and [...]

I haven’t had a chance to write this week and most likely won’t over the weekend so I’ll just point you towards a bunch of important (and inflammatory!) stories over at Daily Kos: Bush knew there was no Iraq-9/11 link – The National Journal is reporting that the September 21, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing informed [...]