Citizens Bank Park has long been your home for family friendly Philadelphia Phillies baseball, but yesterday, we began a new life with a new purpose:  Embracing the tyrannical rule of our new leaders, horrifying robots from the cosmos!

Some may flee in terror, but we for one find the change in leadership refreshing, having grown tired of the repetitive human greed and emotion that so often eclipse the roles of our human politicians.  Perhaps heartless, soulless beings bent on the destruction of our race will serve with the mechanical fortitude our country needs to survive in this time of crisis.  We’re referring to other crises other than the one where giant robots take over the earth.

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Walking by the Free Library can be a bit of a… thing.  There’s a smattering of crackheads usually not far from you, and while they may not ask for money, you can tell their brains could be oozing out their ears and they may not really notice until they start dripping onto their shoes.

There are sometimes school children, fresh off the bus, hanging out, screaming newly-learned obscenities, trying to smack each other, or looking for spare change to buy snacks.  Nearby, a food cart sits comfortably on the corner, where you can get scalding hot coffee which I can tell you from personal experience will take off at least three layers of skin upon contact.  Also you will probably drop the rest of the coffee on your sneakers while avoiding being struck by three cars and a garbage truck at the next intersection.

Happens to everybody.  I assume.

And then, your eyes will suddenly be snared by what you will think is a giant cheese curl trying to give you a huge, but in reality, is this:

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