In the stupidity known as political correctness, the plural pronouns have been used to refer to a single individual who requests them. because such person is “non-binary” or makes some other idiotic claim. For anyone with an understanding of the English language, such can be jarring to read. Fayette County inmate says they were sexually […]
Since the shootings at Roxborough High School, in which six gang-bangers “clique beefers”[1]We were reliably informed by The Philadelphia Inquirer that there are no gangs in the city, just “cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families,” who sometimes … Continue reading in a stolen SUV ambushed at least one targeted individual, wounding three […]
Twitter is a social medium in which you can find all sorts of unexpected things, and the screen capture of a tweet from Mark Bailey pretty much fits the definition of ‘unexpected.’ I do screen captures just in case the author decides that oops, perhaps he shouldn’t have tweeted that. and deletes it. But with […]
We have previously noted how Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York City in the 1990s, with policies continued by his successor, Michael Bloomberg, and how my younger daughter, whom I have joked is the whitest white girl in town, and I were able to walk, in complete safety, from the lower borders of Harlem […]
As of 11:59 PM EDT on the Ides of March, Philadelphia had seen 103 homicides, one more than on the same day in murder record-shattering 2021. That’s actually an improvement; the city was nine murders ahead of last year as recently as March 7th. All of which makes this article from Philadelphia magazine a surprise […]
We noted, near the end of May, the opinion piece by Elizabeth Hughes, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer. In it, Miss Hughes began: June 2 will mark a year since The Philadelphia Inquirer published this racist headline: “Buildings Matter, Too.” If printing those words in 72-point type had occurred in a vacuum, it would have […]
This website has spent a good deal of bandwidth noting the Lexington Herald-Leader and the McClatchy Company’s mugshot policy. In particular, we have noted the Herald-Leader’s odd habit of violating that policy when it comes to white criminal suspects, but adhering closely to it when the suspects are black. Well, in this case, the suspect […]
It’s a very good thing that prosecutors let Jeffrey Epstein skate on charges in 2008. Well, that good thing comes at a cost, the cost being an unknown number of other teenaged girls being sexually abused, but maybe, just maybe, some real good can come of this. From The Miami Herald: Lead U.S. prosecutor in ’08 […]
It’s a very good thing that prosecutors let Jeffrey Epstein skate on charges in 2008. Well, that good thing comes at a cost, the cost being an unknown number of other teenaged girls being sexually abused, but maybe, just maybe, some real good can come of this. From The Miami Herald: Lead U.S. prosecutor in ’08 […]