The State News looked into the anti-Carper full-page mailers attacking him for his Big Pharma ties. They found the Patients for Affordable Drugs Action but didn’t get a whole lot of answers about any kind of strategic connection among the group’s targets. They did find that the money comes from a Concerned Billionaire while the organization is fronted by a cancer patient whose life-extending drugs cost $300,000 a year. Because an industry reaping nearly $5 billion annually from men seeking the boners of their youth is perpetually strapped for cash. WARNING: Reading Carper response may cause nausea, hot flashes and teeth-grinding. Do not read while operating heavy machinery.
For live-entertainment fans who want to splurge on tickets to see some really big stars, the choices just got wider: Why pay to hear Kanye praise Trump when you can listen to Bill and Hillary Clinton tell anecdotes about their historic selves? Those looking for a cheaper alternative should consider walking barefoot across a roomful of Legos.
Is anyone tracking how often the punditocracy’s Conventional Wisdom is wrong? It’s gotta be a lot. Most recently, no, the Kavanaugh clown show didn’t erase the “enthusiasm gap” between the parties: A new CNN poll found it’s smaller but still significant.
He’s from DelCo. Probably drives a white van.
Again, Conventional Wisdom whiffed on Gritty, the Flyers mascot that has taken the country by storm. Some Philadelphians, especially the actual hockey fans, still dislike the disheveled, creepy creature, but he’s a social media favorite, especially after he was adopted as an ally by the city’s Antifa forces. This writer attempts to answer a simple but complex question: Why?
From the Every White Guy Deserves a Second Chance file: the cop who killed Tamir Rice has been hired as a cop again, by a small-town police chief who was apparently looking for a distraction from his own horrible record in the job.
Oh, yeah, I almost for the UN’s assessment of the planet’s current fever —Our grandchildren are fucked.