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Because we here at Phillyist firmly believe that there's nothing wrong with owning a sex toy or two—hell, we think every girl needs at least one vibrator!—we've been intrigued by the recent plight of Jill McDevitt, a small business owner just outside the city in West Chester. McDevitt's store, Feminique Boutique, an adult novelty shop in the college town's Business District, came under fire earlier this month when Msgr. Edward Deliman of St. Agnes Church alerted his parishioners of the store's existence—and its location, one block from the church and its adjoining school. Deliman said the store's proximity was corrupting the morals of the children who attended the school and church, and last week filed an appeal of the building permit McDevitt obtained to open her store.

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

The Inquirer has an article about the Philadelphia Community Cats Council, a group of folks trying to manage and reduce the city's huge feral cat population, estimated to be at least 250,000. They do this by trapping feral cats, neutering them, and then returning them where they were found. Both the Daily News and the Inquirer have articles about Sharon Hill native John Patrick Foley and his elevation this weekend to the status of Cardinal...

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just in time for Halloween, the Chocolate Jesus is back.

Okay. So elephants are one of Phillyist's favorite animals, and we're excited to finally get to show you a picture of them. We decided that we needed to be pachyderm-friendly in our headline too, and we were going to go with Groucho Marx ("One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. "), but then we discovered this old Russian saying: "No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls." Phillyist isn't sure whether we have bigger balls than our -ist brethren (as one of the youngest siblings, we fear we don't), but that's neither here nor there, really. We just wanted to tell you what they're up to.