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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: SEPTA Sold (a Couple of) Pope Passes

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Is Stripper Registry Bill a Trojan Horse Meant to Shut Down Nudie Bars?

I don’t like strip clubs. The first time I went to a nudie bar, I felt like I was watching pornography with a room full […]

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Why Pope Francis’ Visit Might Be Philly’s Biggest Challenge Ever

This week, it seems, Philly reached a tipping point. We’ve known for a while now that Pope Francis will visit in September, that it’ll bring […]

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Kaukab Siddique Keeps Saying Terrible, Anti-Semitic Stuff on Facebook

I wish I had never looked at Kaukab Siddique’s Facebook page. But I couldn’t help myself—I got curious when I saw that the Lincoln University […]

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Uh-Oh! Cheating Online Isn’t Safe Anymore

“I mean isn’t that why we are here, to be as discreet as possible?” Those enticing words probably sound a little different today to the […]

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Urban Millennials, We’re Screwed When the Climate Apocalypse Comes

In retrospect, I should never have clicked that link. It was Monday morning, after all, and the sun was just barely up. If you must […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

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The Homeless Have a Home: It’s Philadelphia

I know she didn’t mean it to be cruel, when she said it. She was just a sheltered kid from Roxborough doing a park cleanup […]

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Dear Philly: Let’s Embrace the Pope’s Visit

When I saw the headline, “Papal Panic! Could the Pope’s Visit Be a Giant, Embarrassing Flop??” I almost didn’t scroll to read it.  I see […]

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Is Archbishop Chaput Trolling Pope Francis?

“So,” a colleague asked me this week, “Is Archbishop Chaput trolling the pope?” It was a funny notion — putting the leader of the city’s […]

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Papal Panic! Could the Pope’s Visit Be a Giant, Embarrassing Flop?

I’m starting to get a little worried about this papal visit. I think it was a story in the Inquirer about gunmen on the Parkway […]

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PA Dems Donate Democrat T-Shirts to Soup Kitchen, Congratulate Themselves

It’s been a while since we’ve taken a shot at ridiculous press releases, so we’d like to thank the Pennsylvania Democratic Party for sending us […]

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Department of Duh: Of Course Margie Winters Got Fired

In some ways, I feel for Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. Yesterday, when he released a statement on the archdiocese’s position on the firing of Margie Winters, […]

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Bill Cosby Scandal Suggests We Still Don’t Take Sexual Assault Seriously Enough

Folks: If Bill Cosby, as has been alleged, sexually assaulted dozens of women, it would be wrong because sexually assaulting women is wrong. It wouldn’t be wrong […]

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The 7 Worst People at the Farmers’ Market

In theory, the farmers’ market sounds like a lovely place to spend your Sunday morning. And it should be. It could be. Sometimes it is. […]