Quote of the day:

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

You may recall that that I’ve had some harsh words from time to time for the Philadelphia Police Department, but they aren’t the only law enforcement problem Philadelphia has had over the years. Some of our judges stink as well.

For example, Judge Genece Brinkley, who sentenced Philadelphia born rapper Meek Mill to two to four years in prison for minor parole violations. He eventually received a gubernatorial pardon, and Judge Brinkley was stripped of her criminal docket and reassigned to civil court. Happily, she is no longer a Philadelphia judge of any kind, except perhaps in her own warped mind.

Meanwhile, another judge with an overinflated ego tried running for District Attorney in the spring primary on the Democratic ticket.

Now Larry Krasner has served two terms as DA and, despite a couple of missteps, has been the kind of DA Philadelphia has long needed. He has brought sanity to the department and reversed many unjust prosecutions of the previous administrations.

So it was no surprise that former Municipal Court judge Patrick Dugan lost to Krasner in the spring primary.

Did he take the loss gracefully? Of course not.

He decided to switch parties to, you know, Brand X, aka the Republican Party, and he’s running again in the general election, even though he had previously pledged he would not run as a Republican. I guess pledges don’t mean much to some folks.

Sounds like he has an agenda. His wife is a retired police officer. A retired police officer of that corrupt Philadelphia Police Department. 

I filled out my mail-in ballot.

Meanwhile the Republican Party has sent me so many flyers in the mail in the last few days to try to convince me to vote no on the retention of the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices. Fat chance. Even if I weren’t already planning to vote Yes to retain them, just the fact that the corrupt Republican Party is going into overdrive to try to get rid of them would convince me to keep them.