Tag: politics

  • Fishtown Library Rally on Channel 6 Action News

    Chan­nel 6’s Jes­si­ca Borg cov­ered the Save the Fish­town Library ral­ly last night. You can see me sport­ing my Phillies play­offs hood­ie and hat 37 sec­onds into the clip. I want­ed to post this not only because I think that this is a sto­ry that deserves a great deal of vis­i­bil­i­ty, but also because I…

  • Save the Fishtown Library!

    Save the Fish­town Library Ral­ly, orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life. Tonight, Helen and I attend­ed the ral­ly to save the Fish­town Library. It was great to see such turnout to save our com­mu­ni­ty library. I’m hope­ful that we’ll be able to find a way to save these pre­cious resources in the face of…

  • A QUICK WORD ABOUT “FAKE EMPIRE”

    When I first heard the Nation­al’s “Fake Empire” used dur­ing the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion, I was­n’t sure if the Democ­rats quite under­stood the reflex­iv­i­ty of its use, i.e. that the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty has been half awake in a fake empire since Sep­tem­ber 2001. It’s time some­one — or some­thing — woke them up.

  • A QUICK PROGRAMMING NOTE

    I’m writ­ing about pol­i­tics again for the first time in for­ev­er here. I’m cov­er­ing the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion and so far it’s been a lot of fun. When you’re not teth­ered to any par­tic­u­lar pol­i­tics, events like this can only be viewed as a laugh riot. In short, my view of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty remains…