Again and again, we hear people weighing in from their middle class comfort with the opionion that it's OK to loot water and food, but not hard goods. Special enmity is reserved for those who choose to loot electronic equipment. Let me tell you, the scene in New Orleans amounts to bad science fiction. If any one of us was plucked from suburbia and set down in the middle of N'awlins about now, past the 72 hour mark since our last decent meal, we would have a whole different mindset. It's called survival. You may need that TV later just to barter for a bottle of water. Will anybody take this Ipod for a granola bar?

MSNBC is reporting a South African woman's innovation of a female condom which is designed to stop rapes. The inside of the device has JAGGED barbs which will lodge into the penis of an intending rapist, thereby stopping the attack. In related news, Philly EDGE could not confirm that a competing company will hand out Kirstie Alley masks as a sexual assault deterrent.

PS- If you feel that you need to wear an anti-rape device EVERYDAY, shouldn't you move, like, far away?

PSS- Should Bristol Township and Germantown put in orders

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Philly EDGE correspondent Michael Lello took in Bruce Hornsby, Bob Weir and Ratdog Tuesday night at the Mann Center. His review follows...
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PHILADELPHIA — You can call it another stop on the long, strange trip that’s been bending minds since the Grateful Dead came alive in 1965, you can call the Mann Center that “lazy summer home” from the song “Eyes Of The World” and muse to yourself, like in “Eyes,” that “the heart has its seasons, its evening and songs of its own.”
Heck, you could even make up your own lyric-driven cliché, but the fact is that a lot of wonderfully weird stuff went down Tuesday night when Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers and Bob Weir and Ratdog — the former a one-time Dead touring member, the latter a founding Dead man — shared a bill at the quaint concert shed in Fairmount Park.

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Starbucks, the official coffee of Barnes and Noble Cafe, gets a lot of flak for being an elitist indulgence ($1.70 for a grande-sized cup of coffee), but seemingly few people know that refills are only 53 cents. That's a deal.

A story on KYW.com blamed a horrific accident for long delays this morning on the eastbound Pennsylvania Turnpike.
According to the story, a livestock truck was rear-ended by another tractor trailer early Tuesday. The crash caused the death of several sheep and goats, and caused other animals to run wild across the highway.
No mention as to whether or not any of the delays were caused by drivers who fell asleep at the wheel while they counted the sheep who were running across I-276.

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Most restaurants offer a choice between a smoking and non-smoking sections.
For what it's worth, eateries within a close proximity of Sesame Place in Langhorne/Fairless Hills might do well to zone a "kids" and "without kids" section.
Long lines ("Fast food? Not really, after the entire family gives their order."), oblivious parents - (who really should pay attention after their child has yawped "Mom" for the 443rd time in a row) and some dissaffected food service workers ("Cheese. Yes, cheese, the lovely orange-yellow square right there.") it can be very frustrating.
After a few weeks some single men might ask for a vasectomy with their Meal Deal.