Whenever I stand waiting to pay for my sweater while the cashier talks to her pal on the phone, or when I am met with […]
“Is Illicit Drug Use Harmful to Cognitive Functioning in the Midadult Years?” That’s the title of a recent report from the American Journal of Epidemiology. […]
From Lower Merion product Kobe Bryant’s alleged infidelities (fail) to the Eagles all but promising us a Super Bowl (let’s be honest: epic fail), Santa […]
Anyone who knows me knows I’m no fan of Herman Cain. And that’s because I have a brain. Even diehard Republicans must admit that they […]
Word just came out of Seattle’s King County prosecutor’s office that former Philadelphia Eagle Raheem Brock, who now plays for the Seattle Seahawks, has been […]
Last week, while reporting on Seattle Seahawk (and former Eagle) Raheem Brock’s theft conviction in Philadelphia, I remembered his well-publicized 2010 arrest in Seattle on […]
It was just another ripple in the wave of stories about pedophiles that’s been washing over us: a local man, Kenneth Schneider, 46, founder of […]
The tabloid hacking scandal in Britain is beginning to put a new spin on Janet Malcolm’s neat little thesis on journalistic ethics. Malcolm is the […]
There’s a lovely, heart-warming story in today’s Inquirer about Tao Xu, a new junior at the Main Line’s upper-crusty Haverford School. Xu, who’s 18, was […]
The last time 11 p.m. rolled around at a Philly-area Guns N’ Roses show with no sign of Guns N’ Roses, unrest was in the […]
In an operation that must have been quite thrilling to the bean-counters at the Government Accountability Office, GAO investigators infiltrated the murky world of for-profit […]
Perhaps Penn State never was all it was cracked up to be. Joe Paterno talked a noble game, but everything the university stood for—the Grand […]
Perhaps Penn State never was all it was cracked up to be. Joe Paterno talked a noble game, but everything the university stood for—the Grand […]
The New York Times has reported that American Media Inc., which publishes such formidable journalistic bastions as the National Enquirer and Star, is adding to […]
Last week, I saw two separate op-eds—one on The Huffington Post and one on Salon—that suggested that now, in the age of Occupy Wall Street, […]
