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Showing articles 1 to 10 of 52 by Isaiah Thompson

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November 19th, 2009

Man Overboard!: I, Ishmael

Finding fallacy in the SEPTA strike.

There's this part in Moby Dick — bear with me — where Captain Ahab whips his crew into booze-fueled cheers to kill the white whale.

by Isaiah Thompson

November 12th, 2009

Man Overboard!: Planet SEPTA

SEPTA ... the good guy. If this seems like some sort of bizarro world, it is: Planet SEPTA. And on Planet SEPTA, the union isn't the only thing to be pissed about.

by Isaiah Thompson

November 5th, 2009

Man Overboard!: No Benefits

Forget the public option — gimme a SEPTA plan.

Why is it, I wonder, that one union can be out there clamoring to keep their amazingly generous health care terms while another, like the scrappy Taxi Workers Alliance, barely has a pot to piss in?

by Isaiah Thompson

October 29th, 2009

Man Overboard!: 666

There's slightly demonic stuff everywhere you look.

The microwave started beeping. And with each beep — and I swear this is true — a "6" appeared on the screen: "6," it beeped. "6." "666." The numbers wouldn't clear. I tried again; same thing. So Satan controls my microwave, big whup.

by Isaiah Thompson

October 29th, 2009

Go West, Young Man

Our writer traverses Pennsylvania on bicycle, and (barely) lives to tell the tale.

Finally I do it: I announce my vacation, pack up the bike, and start pedaling the 380 miles to Pittsburgh with the notion of seeing something of this "Pennsylvania."

by Isaiah Thompson

October 22nd, 2009

Man Overboard!: The Nutter Special

We're not so different from the Iron City.

We say "youse," they say "yinz." We've got cheesesteaks, they put french fries on sandwiches. Not so different. For example, you won't believe what they're griping about right now: libraries!

by Isaiah Thompson

September 24th, 2009

Going All In

Is taking down the casinos a lost cause? Or just a new one?

Some three years after the state informed Philadelphia that, like it or not, it would host two casinos, neither is up and running.

by Isaiah Thompson

September 24th, 2009

The Code Breaker

Shannon McDonald

It could be that McDonald just got assigned a really, really bad apple to follow around that day. Any reporter, put in her shoes, would have done the same and written exactly what the officer said, right? Maybe not.

by Isaiah Thompson

September 24th, 2009

The Pests

Casino-Free Philadelphia

Casino-Free Philadelphia has maintained a position that is very simple, and very clear: no casinos in Philadelphia. Period.

by Isaiah Thompson

September 10th, 2009

Mallet Ballet

Like herding cats: A report from last weekend's Hardcourt Bicycle Polo World Championship.

Bike polo itself isn't new, but it's just within the last 10 years or so that a new style, dubbed "hardcourt," has emerged, played on a hard surface instead of grass and using minimal, homemade equipment. The style came from the scrappier side of the bicycling family tree — the ballsy, urban do-it-yourselfers and bike messengers.

by Isaiah Thompson

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