Rumblings: Classy!
>>> Philly Union People: They should put ‘em in a museum of People Who Still Believe In Shit That Died A Long Time Ago. But in addition to telling various pillars of industry that Philly is a backward town and to do anything here you have to grease the foreman, they also provide excellent copy for otherwise sleepy news reports:
The balding, silver-haired Rubenstein traded barbs with a heavyset, megaphone-wielding union representative. [...]
“We’re going to improve the health care” at Manor, he added, also suggesting that activists take remedial English.
Meow! See that? I bet you didn’t even know that we just tricked you into a reading a story about the Service Employees International Union disrupting the Wharton Private Equity Conference. Aw, what’s that, you’re asleep already? Hush, child. You’re already in Dreamland. [Inky]
>>> Oh, and this is rich: Remember that Councilman Jack Kelly FBI investigation we mentioned yesterday? Guess who narc’ed: His chief of staff’s ex-wife. Who THEN told the Daily News, yep, it was me! That’s why they call it “The People Paper,” folks. [DN]
>>> And finally, happy 302nd birthday to Ben Franklin. You are the best bisexual freak inventor, philosopher, statesman and forefather a town could have. If there’s mead and gross legs of lamb in heaven, please enjoy some on our tab. [KYW]
January 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Ben was a Madiera and beer man. ‘Proof that God loves us’, and all that.
January 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Him enjoying the wine of my island is enough to love our deceased Parisian brothel adventurer.
Seriously though, putting such a closer made me not implode with hatred over the first two stories.
The needs of the city are to enjoy commerence without barbarians at the gate…crashing it. Also for one to raise a glass over an engorged liver. Whether it be their own or that of a defeathered birdie.