In one of the most exciting primary elections in recent history, Senator Clinton (NY) takes the PA primary with a 10 point lead over Senator Obama (IL).

While Obama overwhelmingly won the support of Philadelphians (65% to Clinton’s 35%), Clinton proved that she is the clear choice for Pennsylvanians state-wide. Being a huge supporter of Senator Clinton, I listened intently to her victory speech last night. She said one thing that really stuck in my mind (not verbatim), “…I’ve seen parent’s with their daughters saying – See? You can be anything you want to be.”

On an even more local level, Larry Farnese won the 1st District Senate Seat – proudly representing South Philadelphia. While I voted for Anne Dicker, I was very satisfied that union boss John Dougherty did not clinch the victory. Dougherty also “killed” more trees then Farnese and Dicker – and if anyone knows, I am all about greening South Philadelphia.

Forbes Magazine has Philadelphia as #9 among the top ten cities for Young Professionals. Beating us out were, NYC, Atlanta, LA, DC, Boston, Seattle and Minneapolis. Denver was number ten. To read the article click here

For all you Bush-bashers…

You thought he’d PARDON Scooter Libby.

Ha!

You were wrong. Sooooooo, so wrong.

Bush COMMUTED him. Not pardoned, commuted.

See?

What a great guy he is.

But here’s the rub, chet…

Granted Scoot doesn’t have to serve any jail time, but he is STILL going to get hit with that kinda-hefty fine and the charge WON’T get taken off his personal record like it would have if he had gotten pardoned (balls!.) Soooooo, when Scoot goes to apply for a job in say, sunny Philadelphia, at maybe Wawa or Rita’s Water Ice to pay off said fine, he’ll still have to say, “yes,” when asked if he’s ever been convicted of a felony.

That’s annoying.

He’ll never get hired at Wawa now.

Bush really should have thought of that.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY: Don’t get mad at Bush for lettin’ Scoot off. Get mad at Bush for screwing up Scoot’s chances of working at Wawa.

The End.

I’m going to confess again that I am behind in my reading, which is why I didn’t catch the article in the New York Times Dining Section yesterday that featured Philadelphia’s own Marc Vetri. He’s been getting a lot of love in the local Philly media of late, and so I’m not surprised that the NYT has taken notice of our local hotshot. I was a little surprised that they didn’t love Osteria as much as Craig LaBan seemed to, though.