Quickies: Send in the goon

• While real police officers are out on the street actually trying to deal with crime (more or less), and the news media is writing stories trying to figure out why the murder rate went up last year, and yours truly is blogging about newspaper typos (always a way to slow the rise in murders), Police Commissioner Sly Johnson is blaming the news media and saying there’s no way cops can stop crime. Oh yeah! [NBC 10 via Philebrity]

• The Inky has a scoop on older women dating younger men. (And it’s not even by Faye Flam.) As a young man, I highly encourage more stories like this. Many more. [Inky]

• Steve & Mia come up with a great made up first question today that’s quite funny. (Disclaimer: I don’t know if the questions to Steve & Mia are made up. In all fairness, I also think that every single S&M question is real. I just allege that they’re fake because, come on! I feel the same way about Herb Denenberg, too. Update: Wendy Warren says that letter is real, and I’ll take her word for it. Even more awesome, then.)

• The infamous Sid the Snake, terror of Bucks County, has died. Let’s all say a prayer for Sid. I’ll be holding a candlelight vigil tonight. [Bucks County Courier Times]