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Like Him or Not, Nick Foles Is the Eagles’ Quarterback of the Future

Here is the definitive report on Nick Foles: He doesn’t dazzle you in any aspect of the game. Sometimes he looks really good shooting the […]

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Five Real Philly Housewives We Want to See on Bravo

The strangest thing about “Real Housewives” — after the fact that we watch it, we watch it so hard — is that the franchise never set up […]

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Daryl Metcalfe’s Bad Religion

Let’s give this to Daryl Metcalfe: If you wanted to create a religious-right bogeyman that almost perfectly fit the fevered nightmares of liberals, he’d pretty […]

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SRC’s Contract Move Isn’t About Shared Sacrifice — It’s Looting

Recently, I visited my brother-in-law at Radnor High School and was privileged to see him teach his ninth-grade English/civics class. When I walked in, his […]

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I Went to a Nazi Concentration Camp on Saturday

I really didn’t want to visit Majdanek, a former Nazi concentration camp in Lublin, Poland. Like most people, I found Schindler’s List pretty difficult to […]

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This Halloween, Can We All Just Ghost?

I committed a grievous etiquette sin last weekend. I pulled a Halloween ghost. Let me explain, and see if you wouldn’t have been tempted to, […]

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The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending October 17th

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?

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Privacy in the Age of the Internet

On the Internet, do we make sure that our passwords contain at least 8 case-sensitive characters and include at least one special character because we […]

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Four Lines of Political B.S. That Make Philly Voters Swoon

Got an election coming up? Running for political office in the city of Philadelphia? Or maybe you’re running for a state or local office that […]

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Four Charts That Show Tom Corbett Doesn’t Understand Pennsylvania’s Economy

Tom Corbett seems determined to end his governorship the same way he arrived: By blaming the poor for their inability to find good work in […]

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A Reply to Dom Giordano About Mumia Abu-Jamal

I don’t blame Dom Giordano for wanting convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to shut the hell up. But even after reading Giordano’s case for anti-Mumia legislation […]

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Missanelli: The Real Story Behind the Victor Cruz Tweet

We all have things we want to do when the job is over and after this week, I have decided that I’m going to create […]

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School Boards, Elections, and Philadelphia’s Utterly Failed Democracy

Maybe democracy in Philadelphia isn’t working so well. That’s not a novel observation, I realize, but it takes on new urgency with the growing campaign […]

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Crowdfunding Has Consequences

Over two weeks this past summer, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge poured millions of gallons of frigid water over people’s heads and millions of dollars […]

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5 New York Subway Pick-Up Tips That Will Never Work on SEPTA

I can’t imagine what drove Brian Robinson to look for dates on the subway. In the age of Tinder and Match.com — when anything from […]