NY High School Bans “Assassin” Game, Completely Misses Point

First they came for our toy guns.

Isn’t is just adorable when adults stumble onto some fun thing their kids do, a thing that that they don’t understand, and then make that thing completely irresistible by telling their kids they can’t do it?

Say Neigh to Councilman Squilla’s Horse-Carriage Expansion

Rush hour is not the time for anachronistically quaint rides.

Did you ever stop and think to yourself: “Y’know who’s not working hard enough around here? Freaking carriage horses.” Me neither.

City Councilman David Oh Is Wrong About Collecting Kids’ Library Fines

Why Philly children with overdue books should get fine forgiveness.

I get where David Oh is coming from. But with all due respect, the Councilman is wrong. Yesterday, WHYY’s Tom MacDonald reported that the Councilman proposed a bill that would stymie the Free Library of Philadelphia’s intentions to stop charging late fees to children on their overdue books.

What’s Next for Silver Linings Playbook Writer Matthew M. Quick

After Oscar success, the La Salle alum and South Jersey native finds himself in demand.

“This has probably been the most insane couple of months of my life,” says Matthew M. Quick. It’s the Tuesday before February’s Oscar ceremonies, and the 39-year-old author, an Oaklyn, New Jersey, native and graduate of La Salle, has been at the beck and call of the Weinstein Company for weeks. He’s been running a gauntlet of press interviews ever since Silver Linings Playbook—the Bradley Cooper vehicle about a suburban Philadelphia family coping with mental illness, adapted from Quick’s 2008 debut novel—was nominated for eight Academy Awards.

La Salle Alum Suddenly Thinks College Basketball Isn’t Boring

Go Explorers!

Look, I admit it. I was dead wrong about college basketball. And to all my friends to whom I whined about college sports not being real sports, I apologize. I’m coming clean.

The Top 10 Frankenfoods of the Future!

Beef with carbs! Pleaches!

I have a friend who used to play this amazing prank: When we were in college, he would surreptitiously slip dining hall silverware into the backpacks and coat pockets of his dining companions, turning his friends into unwitting petty thieves.

All Your Friends Went to South By Southwest

And all you got was this lousy hashtag: 4 tips for surviving the #SXSW Twitter deluge.

It began over the weekend. The frantic tweets from friends who appear lost or excited; tired or hungry; thirsty or trashed; bragging or complaining; trying to find somebody or trying to find some party; running low on batteries or running into Jack White. Sometimes they’re a combination of these things, and at other feverish moments, they sound like they’re all of them.

6 Examples of Athletes Mixing Disastrously With Politics

Dennis Rodman has plenty of company.

If you’ve not yet watched Dennis Rodman talk to George Stephanopolous on ABC’s This Week about the NBA Hall Famer's “diplomatic” trip to North Korea, please stop whatever you’re doing and watch it now in its entirety. It’s about six minutes of awkward awesomeness gawking at a man nicknamed The Worm—who is, no joke, decked out in giant sunglasses, more facial metal than Dr. Doom, and a sports jacket emblazoned with stacks of U.S. currency—squirm as he’s presented, seemingly for the first time (and by a man literally half his height!), with the list of human rights violations and threats against America perpetrated by his “friend,” who he "loves," and who is "awesome," North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and his family.

Seth MacFarlane Tweets He Won’t Host Oscars Again, But He Should

He kept the longest three-plus hours in television riveting.

RT @crusephoto: @sethmacfarlaneWould you host the #Oscars again if asked? // No way.Lotta fun to have done it, though.

— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) February 26, 2013

If Sunday’s Oscars telecast proved one thing, it’s that the hardest job in the world is not the United States presidency, Secretary General of the United Nations nor Ron Jeremy’s fluffer: It’s hosting the Academy Awards. Entertaining an audience of billions while reverently poking fun (but not too much fun) at members of the world’s most notoriously touchy trade union is a balancing act worthy of Nik Wallenda.