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By Nick Russo · Launched 7 months ago
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The fine line between flagellation and respect
Drinking habits and graveyard diners // God, guilt, and griddle grease
Jun 18
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The Three-legged Dog
In the first of the boxy brick rowhomes caddy-corner from my apartment lives a three-legged dog. I sit at my living room window and I watch it trotting happily, albeit awkwardly, in its allotted portion of poorly kept grass. It hobbles up the steps and sits on the porch and then…
Jun 13
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Liberalism and Abortion
Roe's demise kicks abortion rights to the halls of state legislatures. Voter attitudes about abortion are now vital. But it's hard to win over hearts and minds with half-truths
Jun 24
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BAP can't fly in a cage
Or, Notes from the Ridge Avenue Wawa
Jun 11
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Cackle Forever After
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Is Comedy Dead?
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February 28, 2022
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Everything Matters
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The Dissociative Pout is Already Dead
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Air Raids and Applebee's
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The Life of a Clear Cut
On forests and people and destruction and time
Jun 6
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The Dissociative Pout is Already Dead
All the cool kids are reassociating
May 31
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MSG in the Temple of Liberty
Michael Jordan and the lust for greatness // the urban crisis and the (other) end of history
May 24
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May 18, 2022
Two trash-related updates, two dumpsites, two cleanups, two song recs
May 18
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Everything Matters
Everything Everywhere All at Once and the "crisis of meaning"
May 11
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We Can End the Garbage Deluge
Two signs that Philly's leaders are ready to make use of two solutions to the trash crisis
May 5
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White Picket Fence: Digging Deeper with Timothy J. Lombardo
The latest edition of the Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" is a good place to start exploring how racism shaped Philly's suburbs. Historian Timothy J…
Apr 29
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Recovering Intimacy
On dating apps, the death of intimacy, and the possibility of resuscitation - lessons from Walker Percy, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Caroline…
Apr 22
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