http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky RSS Feed for Stu Bykofsky en-us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:45:21 GMT http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091119_Stu_Bykofsky__Your_home__your_castle_____so_why_hesitate_shooting_an_intruder__Good_question_.html "GUN NUTS" and "gun-hating zealots" will be taking aim at each other before the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee today in Harrisburg (check your weapons at the door, please.) http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091116_Stu_Bykofsky__American_Muslims_must_stand_up_for_America.html AN AMERICAN, who seems normal but is driven by religious fanaticism, picks up a gun and kills 29 unarmed, innocent people. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091112_Stu_Bykofsky___Most_hated___Maybe__But_most_effective.html ABOUT 5,500 of you, maybe a few more, will like this column. That's the number of Transit Workers Union Local 234's membership. Everyone else might hate it. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091109_Stu_Bykofsky__A_hate-filled_version_of__The_Office__in_Narberth.html AS BAD AS your job may be, are you subjected to a barrage of ethnic or religious insults from a supervisor who also threatens to kill you? And backs his threats with tales of how, as an Iranian army officer, he knows explosives and was in a death unit? http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091105_Stu_Bykofsky__For_GOP__illusions_and_the_same-old.html IT IS 8 P.M. Tuesday and illusions of a Republican victory are drawing their last breath in Philadelphia. In New Jersey and Virginia, the illusion will turn into reality, but not in the Quaker City, perhaps the most "blue" big city in America. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091102_Stu_Bykofsky__Election_results__dear_voters__are_in_our_Stars_and_in_ourselves.html TOMORROW is Election Day. Odds are you know about it, but don't care. And you read a newspaper. Think about the Philadelphians who don't. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091029_Stu_Bykofsky__A_place_of_helping_hands_that_works_for__problem__people.html We get too soon old, too late smart. - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb HARRIET NELSON is 32, and she's gotten smart. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091028_Stu_Bykofsky__Born_in_the_Bronx__Stu_s_rooting_for____.html I GREW UP in the Bronx during the era of Yankees supernatural supremacy, so how can I root against them? http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091026_Stu_Bykofsky__Not_on_Twitter__Behind_the_times__Want_a_friend__Digg_these_rhymes.html LIKE SOME OF you, I get daily invitations to become someone's "Friend." They come mostly come from desperate people trying to create the illusion they are liked. How many Friends do you have? http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/20091022_Stu_Bykofsky__Mighty_controversies_from_unwise_ACORNs_grow.html In the ACORN bunker, they are lighting candles for Katherine Conway-Russell, manager of the Broad St. office who largely avoided being punk'd by a conservative filmmaker playing a pimp and by a coed dressed like Lady GaGa.