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Asshole of the Week

Normally our Asshole of the Week has done something to wrong groups of people: children, charities, whole cities—or, sometimes (actually, many times) they wrong poor defenseless puppies and kitties. But our socially contentious moralista Miss Erica M has the day off today, and I'm steering this wagon right down selfish hill. So, douche-monkey fuck-tard who swiped my bag at the Electric Factory last night, you're right up there with kitten torturers and SEPTA. Feel good about that, do you?

Asshole of the Week

This week, we have a real set of winners. You know how on the Titanic, as it was sinking to its cold, watery grave, women and children were protected first? Because that's how the disaster cookie crumbles. In times of need, society moves to protect those who are deemed the least able to provide their own rescue.

Asshole of the Week

This week was difficult. The investment bankers who so gleefully induced the collapse of the free market economy balked at the idea of a $500,000 salary cap for executives if their company receives government bailout funds. Who will pay for the bi-yearly vacations? The $15,000 dresses? At this news, we looked in our hands for sympathy and found only extended middle fingers. SEPTA continued its storied incompetence by printing the New York skyline on our beer week passes (but then they fixed it). Vince Fumo is still a jerk. There were so many contenders for Asshole of the Week, but as they say in Highlander, there can be only one. With that in mind, we bring you this lady.

Whiz of the Web:  Thirsty Thursday

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

  • The ongoing Fort Dix trial is relying heavily on recorded conversations captured by FBI informants wearing body wires. The defense is arguing that the recorded conversations were casual, speculative conversation, while Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Hammer said: "Even if it was just talk, it is powerful evidence of a conspiracy."
  • Yesterday City Councilman Darrell Clarke moved to lift a little known, almost four-decades-old city law that bans men massaging women and women massaging men.
  • The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.

  • On November 4th, voters will be asked to abolish the Fairmount Park Commission and merge it with the city Recreation Department, placing the whole under the mayor as a standard city department. The Inquirer looks at some of the arguments for and against.
  • A debate between congressional candidates filmed Friday in Allentown by a local TV station was censored when it aired Monday to avoid causing financial harm. Democratic congressional candidate Sam Bennett stated that two major banks had failed when in fact they hadn't. WFMZ-TV muted the sound and blurred Bennett's lips as she made the erroneous remarks.
  • "Police are looking for the driver of a gray Ford pickup who may have been involved in or witnessed the wounding of a Glendora man in a road-rage shooting Sunday night near the Walt Whitman Bridge."
  • At a defendant's sentencing hearing yesterday in a robbery and attempted rape case, the woman who had been the victim of the attack began hyperventilating in court and then collapsed in an anteroom. She was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and later released. The defendant was given the maximum sentence of 20 to 40 years in state prison.
  • The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

  • Latrice Bryant, chief legislative aide to Philadelphia City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr., issued a letter of apology to Goode yesterday for holding up signs during a recent City Council meeting accusing Fox29, and reporter Jeff Cole, of being racist. She has not, however, apologized to Cole or Fox29, and in fact she may be planning to sue them.
  • "Service on SEPTA's R6 commuter rail line has been suspended in both directions after a person crossing the tracks this morning was struck by a train."
  • The judge for the Fumo corruption trial is still ill, a fact that may delay the trial for at least a month.
  • Philadelphia School District counselor Veno Leigertwood, 31, was shot once in the neck shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Saturday in front of his Yeadon, Delaware County home. He died of the injury. His wife, Raven, and 7-month-old daughter, Nichole, were sleeping inside at the time. He was about to get his M.B.A. and had just received a promotion at his job. Leigertwood had no known enemies, and only his cell phone was taken.
  • Some kids got sick at Council Rock High School North in Newtown, Bucks County yesterday after taking a drug called Snurf. We'd make fun of the Daily News for doing their research on Snurf at the Urban Dictionary, but really, that's where we'd probably end up, too.
  • The Penn State football team is in trouble again. Coach Joe Paterno said last night that defensive end Maurice Evans, defensive tackle Abe Koroma, and tight end Andrew Quarless would not play tomorrow against Oregon State after they were linked to a marijuana investigation at their campus apartment Tuesday night. He also kicked reserve cornerback Willie Harriott off the team for an unrelated issue.
  • A couple of unrelated incidents involving firearms took place early yesterday morning in Philadelphia. In the first incident, a retired Philly cop working as a pizza delivery man was accosted by three teenagers, one of whom pointed a gun at him while the other two went through his pockets. But the retired cop was able to reach into his pocket and pull out a semiautomatic Glock, which he had a permit to carry. He shot the boy with the gun once in the chest, killing him. The other two would-be robbers ran off. The deliveryman will most likely not be charged in the incident. A few hours later, officers approaching a group of robbery suspects thought they saw a gun in one of the suspects' waistbands and told him to freeze. He reached for the weapon and one of the officers fired his gun into the sidewalk, causing bullet fragments to strike the 17-year-old suspect. He's in stable condition, and a 14-year-old was also apprehended, but the third suspect ran off.
  • Lawrence Scott Ward, 65, a former marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is already serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for trafficking in child porn, but yesterday new child porn charges were lodged against him.
  • Apparently one of the key witnesses against Vincent Fumo in his corruption trial will be his own son-in-law. In the hopes of keeping the trial from running overlong, the judge in the case has ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys to pare down their witness lists.
  • The rebuilding of the Market-Frankford El, a project that is now $300 million over budget and two years behind schedule, may finally be entering its last stage.
  • A 1-year-old child was slashed in the neck yesterday afternoon at a North Philadelphia home. The suspect is believed to be the child's father, but police are withholding the identity of both victim and suspect at this time. The child was listed in stable condition and undergoing surgery last night.
  • The Daily News has a happy follow-up to its story about people getting their grills stolen in Tacony—a number of good Samaritans stepped forward to donate new grills.
  • Yesterday, amid criticism that they were seeking to profit from their child's death, Andrea and Daniel Kelly were dropped from their lawsuit against the city. Their lawyers said the Kellys agreed to be removed as administrators of the estate and to have a trustee appointed instead. They also said if the parents are convicted of a crime, any money recovered in the lawsuit will go to Danieal Kelly's siblings.
  • The latest on the PA primary race: Barack Obama spoke in Allentown yesterday, criticizing Republican nominee John McCain on foreign and energy policy, and disagreeing with those who are complaining that the fight for the Democratic nomination is going on too long. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton returned to Pennsylvania yesterday, talking about the economy and concerns of middle-class voters at an afternoon roundtable outside Harrisburg and an evening rally in Bucks County. Finally, Pennsylvanians signed up to vote in the primary in record numbers. On the last day to register (March 24th), about 33,300 first-time voters signed up as Democrats and another 46,000 Pennsylvanians switched to the blue party. In the same period, 6,000 new voters registered as Republicans and 1,800 switched in.
  • Another new writer today, folks. Please help us welcome Don Montrey, who is a comedian and a writer. He has no criminal record as far as you know.

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