Naked City

Recently, SEPTA seems to be making sincere efforts to give weary passengers a break: This week marks the midpoint in its QuietRide pilot program, a two-month experiment that uses the R5 Lansdale/Doylestown line to examine how a quiet car might work on heavily populated commuter trains.

Here's where we contemplate the navel of a discontenting winter that won't end, a junked-up football team that blew it, the forgone conclusion of our Obama love affair gone sour and the dreaded nothingness that is our eternity. In this vacuum I only hope somebody else names their kid "Hitler" or that Vince Fumo cracks during trial, starts naming the guys behind the guys and gets a job singing at Victor Café.

by Rob Brezsny

It's a little-known fact that they were actually the first two politicians to debate via Twitter. (It was ruled a tie and later settled via Rock Band.)