HARD TO believe, but the Eagles are not the only professional football team with fans in this town.

The other day, I ran into a bunch of leather-tonsils glued to the tube at an Old City pub, cheering their favorite team. Instead of the lyrical E-A-G-L-E-S chant, it was more like “bloody good pass, chap.”

Their favorite football team: Manchester … Read the rest

IT TOOK America about 15 years to figure out its first Prohibition in the early part of the last century wasn’t working.

It takes your average teen-ager about 15 minutes to figure the current Prohibition – the one that says he or she can’t drink till 21 – is a crock.

An 18-year-old looks around and sees he can sign … Read the rest

IT IS NEW Year’s morning and my head is pounding.

I left the night before to the amateurs, so there can be only one explanation:

The Mummers comics brigades are on the tube.

My Mitsubishi’s tinny speakers are spewing a racket roughly the same as that produced when you light a sack of cats on fire, and a glimpse at … Read the rest