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and the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Logan Square.

Governor Corzine's car was doing 91 in a 65 MPH zone on the night of his recent accident, and although it slowed to 30 before the crash, the trooper driving now admits that his high rate of speed might have been a factor in the accident.

Phillyist is willing to put on a brave face for almost anything...except excessive heat. (Seriously, when we found ourselves unemployed a few years back we whined considerably less than we have in the past eight hours alone. But...you know...it's just so hoooooooootttttttttttttt.)

Does somebody or something hate the Wissahickon Creek? Not long after a still mysterious contaminant killed more than 1,000 fish in the creek, sparking a short-lived health advisory warning everyone to stay away, the creek has now had 55,000 gallons of raw sewage dumped into it due to "electrical problems" Monday night at an Ambler sewage treatment plant. How an electrical problem can cause huge amounts of raw sewage to end up in the Wissahickon Creek is not exactly clear to us, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, although the water is rather toxic for fish, no more fish appear to be dying, and there isn't enough contaminant in the water for it to be toxic to people. In other words, it's just the right amount of raw sewage! Mmm mm!

- A handful of unofficial Mayoral candidates are being sued for fundraising above and beyond the contribution caps (via).

We see dead people. You might too, considering you can't swing a dead cat in Philadelphia without hitting someone with a ghost story. Professional ghost hunters like the Philadelphia Ghost Hunters Alliance probably never have a shortage of haunted sites to investigate. But you don't have to be a professional or go on a tour to find the spirits -- you simply need to know where to look.

Wagers are being placed as to whether or not the museums, businesses, and residences along the Ben Franklin Parkway and surrounding areas will survive Live 8. Some of us are betting on looting, perhaps a plague of locusts, and some of us just think the crowd will erupt into a swarming crowd of miscreant arsonists. Whatever the case, we can all assume that the Parkway will be awash in urine. City officials are guesstimating a crowd of one million. We at Phillyist hear Managing Director Pedro Ramos plans to put out only 300 port-a-potties. Like it's not enough that the city subways smell like a zoo and the Parkway is a major
homeless destination, now we have to deal with Keith Urban and Jay-Z fans urinating against the Please Touch Museum and into the Logan Circle fountain? Not to worry, though -- beloved mayor, John Street, has made this pledge to Philly residents: "The Live 8 concert will happen on July 2, and at 8 a.m. on July 3, I
will be on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and it will be clean. Do you
hear me? It will be clean." Mayor Street may be standing amongst the rubble of what used to be the main branch of the Philadelphia Library, but hey, it'll be clean! Considering only 400,000 people [max] can fit between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Love Park, we're not sure where one million people are going to congregate. Or relieve their bladders. Good news for those living in Center City and the Art Museum area. On a positive note -- if there's looting, I think we can all count on the Franklin Institute's giant heart being passed around the crowd like a giant beach ball. Who wouldn't want to see that? Then again, perhaps Live 8 will come off without a hitch, 300 port-a-potties will be plenty, and a good time will be had by all. We'll keep our fingers crossed.