Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, the original "Hockey Mom," brings her only expertise to the Wachovia Center this Saturday to drop the first puck as part of the Flyers' Season Opener against the New York Rangers. While this is a brilliant bit of publicity on behalf of the Flyers, it is more a continuation of Ms. Palin's involvement with a team that likes to play dirty. Only the Flyers usually win. Rumor has it,......

My fellow Americans. I stand before you today, at my computer, in awe and humility. When Barack first called me to be his VP, I thought to myself, "Is this just Dave fucking with me?" When he assured me it wasn't and he wasn't—well you could have knocked me over with a feather. It is the dream of many an American boy to be President. However, very few dream to be Vice President. I count......

Wiretapped conversations being used as part of an investigation into organized crime in North Jersey could help federal authorities build their case against mobster Nicodemo S. Scarfo and Elkins Park businessman Salvatore Pelullo in an unrelated financial fraud probe that stretches from Philadelphia to Texas. Jocelyn Kirsch is scheduled to plead guilty this morning in U.S. District Court. Four more murders took place in the city this past weekend. In honor of the fact......

The saga of CBS 3’s Alycia Lane continues. She has been divorced twice, appeared on Dr. Phil, was romantically linked to WCBS anchor Chris Wragge, and of course infamously sent bikini photos to a married man. All of this seemed to make her one of the darlings of the New York Post’s Page Six column of late. So it is not a shock that she got into some trouble in New York, more specifically in......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Holy crap! Both the Police and the Stooges are getting back together and going on tour (not together, though - although that'd be awesome). The Stooges have even got a new album - their first in 33 years! - called The Weirdness (download a track from it - called "My Idea of Fun" - here). To our great......

What's interesting on TV this week. Shortest Marriages (Mon; 9PM-10PM; VH1) - Short celebrity marriages. Isn't that a bit redundant? The question about this show is not so much which marriages will they talk about, but more which marriages will they leave out? Dirty Jobs (Tue; 9PM-10PM; Discovery) - Another gross episode of this show about a dude trying out various filthy jobs. But what's so dirty about dismantling Tournament of Roses Parade floats? Quite......

This afternoon the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue will be the site of a conference hosted by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and entitled Islam and the West. It's being held in honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Bernard Lewis, a noted scholar of the Middle East and currently Princeton's Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies. Showing up for the birthday party/deep political discussion will be plenty of other......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Did you know whiny, insecure kids tend to grow up to be rigid, traditional conservatives, and confident kids tend to grow up to be bright non-conformist liberals? Before you accuse us of having that liberal media bias we've heard so much about, we'd like to assure you it's not us saying this, it's science! A professor at UC Berkeley got these......

In our times of the Vice President's (now former) Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, being indicted for obstruction of justice and perjury, (now former) House Majority Leader Tom DeLay being indicted for conspiracy and money laundering, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist being investigated by the FEC, and Philadelphia City Councilman Rick Mariano being indicted for several counts of corruption, it hardly seems possible that there are any decent and ethical politicians left in this......