Singing the song of angry men?

At best, she had latent racist tendencies that she kept pretty well-contained until the stressors in her life made containment impossible and brought those characteristics to the surface.

I wonder why we haven’t classified racism as a personality disorder, much like sociopathy or BPD. Viewing other human beings as lesser and having no sympathy for them seems to fit the bill.

EDIT: this, of course, wouldn’t make being a bigot excusable in any way, shape, or form. But it sure would be nice if we found out that some people’s brain pathways were susceptible to forming racist thoughts thanks to some chemical imbalance, which, in turn might mean a literal cure for racism. I’m probably dreaming, but I would much rather that than continue to see it fester onward with the procreation of children who are “raised” by the shittiest of people.

So, you’re correct that you can buy a ticket into Center City AFTER getting on the train in Paoli and getting off the train in Center City. According to the Regional Rail fare section on SEPTA’s website, your options are as follows:

> SEPTA accepts cash for travel on any Regional Rail line. Exact fare is not required. The conductor can make change, but bills larger than $20 are not accepted. The cost of the trip is higher when paying cash on board.

> Customers may purchase a Quick Trip ticket from a Center City Regional Rail station. The ticket is good for a single one-way ride from Center City to any outlying station and must be used on the date of purchase.

> Customers arriving in Center City without having provided a fare onboard must purchase an Exit Quick Trip at an Exit Fare Kiosk and must be used within two hours of purchase.

If your visit to Philadelphia is a one-time thing, I recommend the Exit Quick Trip option for entering the city on Saturday and the regular Quick Trip for leaving the city on Sunday. If you plan on returning here in the future, or even if you plan on moving about town, I’d recommend that you invest in a SEPTA Key card. It’s cheaper than paying cash on the train, and you can just put money on the card and use it for whatever mode of transportation you need to use. It is definitely a pain to not be able to buy the Key card at a Regional Rail stop, but the sales kiosk at the King of Prussia transfer center by the mall isn’t too far from Paoli.

I hope you enjoy your visit here.

This feels like terrible karma, for some reason.

I see what you’re saying. I recommend reading up on adaptive reuse to see how one can retrofit a building to meet new requirements. There are plenty of examples in the city, such as the music venue Union Transfer once being a baggage storage facility for the Reading Railroad, the Pennsylvania Convention Center being located in the former Reading Terminal railway station, or the former West Philadelphia High School building being converted into apartments.

Well, the Inquirer building wasn’t designed to be a police station, either, yet now it is. Also, the city did purchase the building in 2008, only to sell it in 2020.

Camden has the advantage of being just across the river from Center City Philadelphia, which undoubtedly helped attract the USS New Jersey, Adventure Aquarium, and the Waterfront Music Pavilion (née Tweeter Center/Susquehanna Bank Center/BB&T Pavilion) concert venue to Camden, and it’s also a ten minute ride away on the High Speed Line via PATCO. It has also been the beneficiary of hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and tax breaks, which is how Subaru moved its North American headquarters to Camden. Chester has had no such advantages, as it is a thirty minute train ride away from Center City Philadelphia, and it is also separated from the city by the airport, not to mention the working class boroughs of Delaware County that have their own challenges. New Jersey also seems to have made a more concerted effort in fixing Camden than Pennsylvania has made in fixing Chester.

There’s coffee cheesesteaks in that nebula.

I can’t wait to see the open defiance.

I used to live in Media, and I’d find the closest on-street parking that wasn’t time-limited or permit parking. So what if I had to park four or five blocks away? SEPTA wasn’t getting my money. Since then, I’ve made it a point to find free parking near SEPTA stations, even if I had to walk a bit.

I’ve been supportive of the overall route changes proposed as part of the Bus Revolution, but the Manayunk/Roxborough changes have left me scratching my head. I can’t help but think that tech consultants that they hired to design the new bus system never actually set foot in that neighborhood; otherwise, they would have seen that the changes might look good on paper but fall flat in the face of the reality of walking up a hill. I just hope that the SEPTA representatives agree and didn’t say anything committal at those meetings because they didn’t want to push their consultants under the bus.

They had better change it, though, because otherwise, what will happen is NBC 10, Fox29, 6ABC, KYW, and the Inquirer will all run stories about the people who can’t reach the bus in Manayunk and Roxborough. This will completely undermine any other successes that SEPTA may experience with their bus network reconfiguration.

I second rover. My wife and I have been using the same sitter for our two cats for a couple of years, and our sitter was great. She was in constant communication with us, played with our cats, and sent us pictures.

Minella’s Diner in Wayne has had a well-stocked bar at least since I started occasionally eating there during college breaks in the late 2000s. I do wish it was still 24 hours, but that’s probably nostalgia talking.

I’ve loved my weekend treks over the AT from my Boy Scout days, but there is a reason that the thru-hikers we talked to call our state “Rocksylvania.”

The Pinnacle and Bake Oven Knob are awesome, though.

> FCA

But just think of the security provided by a monthly subscription of just three strips of gold-pressed latinum for the FCA’s official Hoo-mon Car Lock feature!

Fluid 80s night with Robert Drake was a can’t miss.

Take a little bit of time.

Sheeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

It’s suddenly making a lot more sense how Brian Fitzpatrick is elected every term, despite his lack of spine. It’s that magic “R.”

>> It is unconscionable that five members of the Pennridge School Board would even consider sending our students out into such a world handicapped by a lack of education in the very subjects they need to navigate their future.

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that those five Pennridge school board members are Republicans.

May I try?

Aliens built the pyramids so that the CIA could recruit Amelia Earhart to fly the Columbia back in time to shoot down the Challenger from a secret base in Cuba.

Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown

That’s mom for “mad!”

Oh, boy…