“The Outrageous Truth” with Michael Moore (via Prometheus 6):

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Shit, this happened at my neighborhood supermarket this morning. I was out for brunch with a friend, and they had all the streets blocked off that I normally take home.
This was the second city robbery in two days where the robbers were reportedly dressed as Muslim women.

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I hate to comment on individual cases when I wasn’t sitting on the jury, but damn, cops are always acquitted no matter what, aren’t they? Fifty shots…

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Really, I think people who spend this kind of money on this kind of stuff are just crazy. Even their used prices are too high.

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Somegirl just called to tell me she’s standing in line at Temple University (good choice, advance team!) for the Clinton rally. “You should see it, there’s a line stretching all the way down and around two blocks,” she said.
She promised to send pictures later if she gets any good ones.

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H/T to Lis for this one:
A CBS investigation has revealed that parking tickets stemming from 85% of the parking meters in Philadelphia are invalid. Pennsylvania law requires inspectors to certify each parking meter for accuracy once every three years, but the single inspector working for Philly’s Licenses and Inspections Department, the city agency in change […]

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If cities can’t come up with more money for programs like this, we’re screwed.

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Take the pledge!

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This column caught my eye because it talks about the shooting that just happened around the corner from my old apartment. But I’m posting it because it brings up an important point: Who should clean up the blood at a crime scene? Why isn’t it treated like a biohazard?

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I have to wonder how many of these projects will be left half-finished when the credit sources dry up. I remember it happening on a smaller scale after the saving & loan crash - I think it’ll be a lot worse this time.

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About time.

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Today I interviewed a guy who, on the way home from a soccer game almost two years ago, hit a patch of black ice. The ensuing crash of his SUV killed his wife and his oldest son. His other children were hurt badly; one was in a coma for a week. He himself had eight […]

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Breslin:
Then in the afternoon in South Jamaica, we tried to scare the young. There was a little girl in a pink sweater saying how much she is afraid of the big third-grade test she must pass today. She ran from PS 165 to the school bus at the curb and called out,
“I throw up.”
“When did […]

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Jimmy Breslin will never be a media whore. That’s because he cares about ordinary people, not the Georgetown social scene.
A baby screamed in a stroller. The cry was contagious and now another screamed. A woman who was first in line at a window held a baby who yelled. She opened her shirt and breast-fed the […]

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