OK, let’s review the Philadelphia Eagles for a few minutes, shall we? Here’s a team that last won the Super Bowl… oh, right. They’ve NEVER won a Super Bowl. The head coach embarrasses our city with his “family in crisis”, his home characterized as a “drug em...

Joe the Plumber is at it again, and I am more confused than before. Look, i’m not a complete dope: I understand that politicians make mountains out of molehills all the time, and bring out guests at important events that serve to illustrate whatever point the politicians is trying to make. Bar...

diane.mcnulty@nytimes.com Clark Hoyt, public editor: public@nytimes.com Dear Diane and Clark: I point you to the following website, associated with the Philadelphia Weekly… Brendan Skwire is performing an invaluable public service today: The Philly blogger is fact-checking Maureen Dowd — and...

Back in my stoner days (whaddya mean “back”, skwire, you ain’t kidding anyone!), my buddy Paul and i would sneak behind my parents’ garage to get high, inevitably followed by the family dog Bo, who enjoyed getting a faceful of exhaled dank. No lie: you could see the dog’...

Watch Rush Limbaugh pretend to understand civics, to the wild applause of his conservative audience. None of them seem to realize that the scourge of the Dominican Republic is actually quoting the Declaration of Independence. Moron....

Last night around 6:30, I dropped by a local bar to enjoy a quick beer. As I enjoyed my cold beverage, I became aware that Laura Bush was on the TV, participating in a very long puff piece with ABC News: In fact, Mrs. Bush said she did not watch President Obama’s address to Congress on Tuesday...

Apparently, it was gossip site TMZ that broke the stroy of northern Rock’s big party on the taxpayer’s dime: A bank that received $1.6 billion in bailout money just spent a fortune last week in L.A. hosting a series of lavish parties and concerts with famous singers … and TMZ camer...

Click to enlarge This is a joke, right? I mean, this can’t be serious. Is Joe Wurzelbacher now officially going by “Joe the Plumber”, like the Iron Sheik or some other WWF character? No wonder conservatism has lost its way. It’s become the political philosophy of idiots and c...

I’ve been meaning to post this for days. The lovely and talented Phillygrrrrrrrrrrl got a faceful of the old-fashioned bigotry this past Sunday at Thunderbird Lanes on 3081 Holme avenue: [I]f you walk into Thunderbird Lanes with a group of brown kids from your church’s youth group on a Sunda...

Jim Conte, art This is rich: As the country’s recession deepened, the government provided hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to rescue the nation’s floundering banks. Now, lawmakers want to know how that money is being used: to increase lending to consumers or spent on exe...