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Where’s personal responsibility fit into the consequences of a person’s actions?

August 4th, 2008

There are at least a handful of people arguing the U.S. government needs to “do more” to regulate online pharmacies. Sure, that may be true, but right now, face the facts: most in Congress are older people who are technologically-challenged. In fact, look at legislation about most any aspect of life and you’ll see most of it is at least 10 or more years behind the times. I won’t even touch on the health care crisis in the U.S.

In a story on CNN.com, one woman cried to the cable news channel that she found her husband on their marriage bed, dead, in a pool of vomit. He allegedly died from what the woman — the widow — declares was an accidental overdose of drugs the now-dead husband received from an online pharmacy.


Philadelphia’s Mayfair section in advertising history

March 24th, 2008

If you look at the new home construction going on around the 9:24 mark in the video, that’s some of the construction that led to many of the cookie-cutter style homes in Mayfair at the time. From the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, a lot of new home construction converted much of Northeast Philadelphia from open fields to the Northeast Philadelphia of today. In 2004, Northeast Philadelphia provided around 70 percent of all city revenue from taxes.