[-2] A bat that bit two people at a swim club in King of Prussia tests positive for rabies. All relevant parties are administered a wooden stake through the heart. Technically, this will stop the spread of the disease. 

[0] Gov. Ed Rendell releases his new book, A Nation of Wusses: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great. Chapter titles include “Death to America,” “DIY IEDs” and “Let Me Be Very Clear About This: I Have Joined al-Qaida.” 

[-4] Health officials say at least five people near Wilmington were bitten or scratched by a cat that tested positive for rabies. Time for some tax-free staking. 

[-1] A wallaby is found in the woods in upstate Pennsylvania. “G’day, mite. I was on a walkabout lookin’ for bloomin’ onions and seem to ’ave lost me way. Would you be so kind as to direct me to — holy dooley! You’ve gone and staked me wee wallaby ’art, ya hoon! I’m chunderin’ blood. Would some conch call an ambo? Oh hooroo, cruel world.”

[0] Former Pennsylvania state House Speakers John Perzel and Bill DeWeese, convicted of separately misusing public funds, are now cellmates. And never before were the Camp Hill dominoes stakes so high.

[0] In his book, Gov. Rendell says that in general Mayor Nutter is a “non-wuss,” but does call him a “weenie” at least once. Because it was Rendell’s toughness that made him a great mayor from 1992 to 2000, and not the steadily climbing national economy that happens to correlate to that same period.  

[-2] A federal crackdown on Chinatown buses shuts down three companies based in Philly. And the rest will come to a stop on their own. 

[+2] A Russian man and a German woman win the 2012 Philadelphia International Cycling Championship. Undoing everything the Greatest Generation had accomplished.

[0] Mayor Nutter will be the keynote speaker this week at the Sugary Drinks Summit of 2012. Weenie.

This week’s total: -7  |  Last week’s total: -3