I told him the next time that I had a Primanti Brothers sandwich, he would see it.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Working The Room
Sen. Vince Fumo, one of Philadelphia’s most powerful politicians, has created a firestorm by saying that the General Assembly – given the chance – would enact legislation supporting slavery.“. . . If we introduced a bill on slavery, it might pass. That doesn’t make it right.”
“I doubt that sir,” responded Coleman, who supported the measure.
“Oh, don’t bet on it in this General Assembly,” the Philadelphia Democrat shot back. “I know some people up here, especially on a secret ballot, it would be almost unanimous.”
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Hugh Downs Is Blushing
Barbara Walters has revealed that she had an affair with then-Sen. Ed Brooke in the 1970s.Promoting her memoir, "Audition," the legendary television journalist dished about her long-running relationship with the Massachusetts Republican to Oprah Winfrey, according to a transcript of next week's broadcast leaked to the Associated Press yesterday.
They met at an N.Y.C. restaurant in '73 when she was in a busy dating phase. "Ed Brooke was simply the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming, and impossible man." How so? He used to joke that "I was the oldest woman he had ever been attracted to." (She writes she was tempted to respond, "Oh yeah? Well, you are the blackest man I have ever been with.")
"I was excited, fascinated, intrigued and infatuated," Walters writes. She badly wanted to marry him, and her ultimatum prodded him to seek a divorce, she says.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
They Are Who We Thought They Were
The 76ers experienced another slow start last night, and it led to the conclusion of their season.The Pistons meant business. They played as if their backs were to the wall, while the Sixers simply hit the wall.
Booty
A 15th Century ship laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins -- and cannons to fend off pirates has been found off the coast of Africa.Judging from the notables depicted on the hoard of Spanish and Portuguese coins and the type of cannons and crude navigational equipment, the ship went down in the late 1400s or early 1500s, around the time Vasco de Gama and Columbus were plying the waters of the New World.
What sent her down may remain a mystery. But there are theories, noting the stretch of coast where it met its fate was notorious for fierce storms and disorienting fogs.
Spanish gold coins, Portuguese silver coins minted in the late 1400s or early 1500s were found, as well as dividers used for measuring distance on a map during navigation.
The reverse of the some of the gold coins depicts Ferdinand and Isabella, two Spanish monarchs of the time.
At Least She Wasn't 12
NBA star Karl Malone is known for ‘delivering the mail’. This week, however, the hot topic is the child Malone fathered with a 13-year-old girl named Gloria Bell.To be fair we should mention that at the time of the conception Malone was a teen himself - 19 years old and a college sophomore at Louisiana Tech. Still the age difference qualified the situation for statutory rape charges. Lucky for Malone, the girl's parents decided not to pursue prosecution.
The former Utah Jazz power forward had no contact with the child as he was growing up and still makes no claims to fatherhood. When the two finally met, the basketball star told the 18-year-old Demetrius Bell it was too late for him to be his father, and that Bell would have to “earn his money on his own.”
It seems Bell is poised to do just that, having grown into a full fledged professional athlete like his uninterested father. Unlike Malone though, Demetrius Bell chose the sport of football to make his career, and last week he was sent to the Buffalo Bills in a 7th round NFL draft pick.
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