> She wants to have her cake and eat too.

That's the most generous take on "wants to commit tax fraud" I've ever seen.

Best revenge on a shitty parent is being the best one you can for your own munchkins. Good on you.

> Why is our story so common, it’s really not hard being a half decent parent.

It's harder than it looks. Plus, there's a shitload of generational trauma rippling through, especially if your parents were born close to postwar (say up until about the early '60s). Hell, my dad literally told my mom that she was going to have to handle the kids because he "had no idea how to be a parent."

Best we can do is try to avoid the same mistakes with the next generation and give our parents what grace we can for their transgressions.

What the fuck is flawed about "this guy is a fucking asshole and making shit needlessly dangerous by parking on the sidewalk"? Because that's the larger point, not whatever the you're trying to shoehorn in here.

Ignoring that you're missing the larger point, 23rd is a one-way southbound — you could step into an empty street going south to get around this jagoff and have someone turn off Cuthbert and hit you from behind without you ever seeing them.

This thing is the width of the sidewalk, and construction on the other side of 23rd has closed a full lane and the sidewalk on the other side. Literally the only way around this motherfucker is going in the street.

Eh, that inspection came after they were running the 48 over it for months during the Girard detour, and the articulated buses come in at like 30 tons, so... it seems OK from that standpoint.

If that's 23rd under JFK, that shitbird's been there since before 6 a.m., no less.

> This might seem peculiar or unfair

Or, you know, completely unconstitutional.

Might be too cynical a way of looking at it — there's a sizable gulf between being a handpicked successor and being someone with practical experience working in a council office. And as far as I've seen, Clarke hasn't said word one about Young in this process — not in the Inky article, not on social, not anywhere.

The bridge just got resinspected in December and is apparently still OK, for what that's worth.

Read the article — Clarke's preferred replacement wasn't the guy who made the ballot.

Given Poplar Drive only got stop signs in 2017, a light's not super likely. We have heard that it's possible the intersection can get at least partially redesigned, most likely to narrow the crossings, and there might be some short-term solutions (e.g., temporary flex posts) to at least partially accomplish that ahead of a full redesign.

Legit, dude. No judgment from me on that mark!

> vacant land clear and clean, vacant housing kept up to standards(with a cost associated)

The city seriously needs to hike the shit out of the costs to leave property vacant. It's a measly $185 right now, and there aren't nearly enough L&I folks to process the inevitable violations stemming from owners letting those properties rot.

I'd love to see a sliding scale that's something like $1,000 minimum for the first year and escalates from there (potentially higher if you have multiple vacants) — these assholes will stop squatting on houses if you make it hurt.

Right year, wrong Roman numeral — it was the DSM-V revision (got that one mixed up).

As for Asperger himself being a Nazi collaborator, it's well established.

> Sheffer lays out the evidence, from sources such as medical records and referral letters, showing that Asperger was complicit in this Nazi killing machine. He protected children he deemed intelligent. But he also referred several children to Vienna’s Am Spiegelgrund clinic, which he undoubtedly knew was a centre of ‘child euthanasia’, part of what was later called Aktion T4.

> or kids with Asperger's

Not for nothing, but Asperger's hasn't been a diagnosis for a decade (not least because Herr Asperger was a Nazi collaborator who referred disabled kids to a clinic where they were probably murdered). It's folded into the somewhat broader autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-1 as of DSM V*.

*whoops wrong revision

Believe me, I hear you — and maybe the Conservancy can help with getting planters or something similar, but keep expectations low otherwise. That intersection wasn't so much engineered as it just... evolved out of a late 1800s mess.

As for the Poplar/Poplar group, it's mostly a bunch of folks who live over by the park trying to nudge Streets and Parks & Rec, with mild success (Poplar Street's getting repaved this year, so some light fixes are in the works). DM me if you want to pop into the (mostly email) works, though!

I'm in a group trying to work on some changes to the Poplar Drive/Poplar Street intersection, and I can tell you this: You're probably out of luck right out of the gate. The Poplar/Poplar intersection is complicated because it's a park road and a regular city street, so changes to that one aren't easy (mixed budgets, etc.) — but the one thing we've learned for sure is Parks & Rec is tapped out as far as budgeting for any park roads.

It's not to say it's not worth it to try to get something moving on that front, but you're going to need to gather a fair amount of interest (petitions, potentially other steps). Constantly calling the cops on the crosswalk parkers might move the needle, too (or at least annoy the 9th enough that they lean on council/P&R to do something further).

There aren’t any latex products in the chemicals that got spilled. It was an acrylic polymer solution that’s a mix of butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate and ethyl acrylate.

Damn, owners bought it for literally 1/1000 of that asking price in 1975.

The Blue Moon in West Philly was probably the craziness leader until it finally got shut down, but the Carlyle was no slouch.

Neither’s prostitution, technically.

And all too frequently fatal. There have been three or four deaths at the chicane up by East Falls in the last couple of years, including one accident that shredded the car and left the engine like 100 yards from what was left of the cabin.