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Asshole of the Week

This week, I am sick of death—of good men dying of cancer, of the dimming of the stars. I don't care that I didn't personally know any of these people. I watched Charlie's Angels when I was home sick from school, and I tried over and over again to learn the Moonwalk without ever succeeding. I am deflated by these deaths.

  • The Phillies lost for the sixth time in a row, making this their longest losing streak since 2006. C'mon team. We can beat that record!

  • Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles.

  • The enormous amounts of traffic and congestion on the bridge across the Schuylkill linking Conshohocken with I-76 and the Blue Route is actually threatening the town's growth, besides slowing people down and annoying them.
  • Yesterday, it was another Philly Mayoral candidate's turn to announce his plan to fight crime in the city - Michael Nutter.
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