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Indulge the ramblings of a disloyal Democrat today. I am a disloyal Democrat because I never vote the straight D line. I cannot believe Democrats always have the best candidates and the jails are full of Democratic politicians who prove my point. Over the years I have voted for Republicans
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Is your job fun? Does it pay enough? Would you do it if you didn’t have to? Kind of interesting that the most creative jobs pay the least, unless you are a rock star. I saw one poll that said most Americans are satisfied with their jobs, but another
Politics
This column is rated R The talking heads can’t even agree on what a favor is. Does it require reciprocity? If a “favor” requires payback, is it still a “favor”? That’s not how I roll. But I am not President Trump, who actually used the word “reciprocal” in
Politics
I went to college for “free” (meaning free to me) decades before Bernie Sanders put it on the national kitchen table for discussion. I was educated at Brooklyn College, where Bernie was enrolled for a year before he transferred to the University of Chicago. I believe we were there at
Humor
As I’ve said before, from time to time I will use my personal Area 51 to post things I think are funny. Hopefully, you will, too, but humor is very subjective. It is never my intent to hurt anyone’s feelings, but if it makes me laugh that is
Culture
I call this guy the Barber of Broad Street, giving free haircuts to the homeless on the center island, conveniently just across from the Wawa that is a magnet for homeless people. He asks for no proof that anyone who wants a cut is actually homeless. Philadelphia has relatively low
Jim Kenney
It’s a rich irony that after years of butt smooching Jim Kenney, Philadelphia Magazine would feel his petty wrath after it grew a pair and published a couple of things His Grouchiness did not like. Like totalitarian wannabe Donald Trump that he repeatedly squawks about, the thin-skinned and hot-tempered
Politics
Listening to the drumbeat of fear, despair and disgust from some precincts on the Left gives me today’s topic: If Donald J. Trump loses the presidential election, he will scream it was rigged — and refuse to leave the White House. The first part of the equation, a claim the
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Like most (all?) of you, I have no memory of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a 1 percenter born in privilege and raised on the banks of the Hudson River about 90 miles north of New York City. Like some (few?) of you, I am aware of the astonishing
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Is there someone who doesn’t want peace? What a crazy notion. We all want peace, but are we as willing to pay the price of peace as we are to pay the price of war? 9/11 is a good time to consider what President Trump seems to want
ACCT Philly
The woman who just resigned as the leader of the city animal shelter, and the man who oversees it, recently had it out in a brutally frank exchange of guided missives. Firing first was Brian Abernathy, Philadelphia managing director, who supervises the city animal shelter, known as ACCT Philly, located
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This is another case where I find something that tickles me, and I want to share it with you. So what this says, is it true? Love is an emotion. Does that mean it is impervious to logic, to reason? I have been married three times, so I lean toward