Philly is really upping the standards on making vending machines “healthier” through price manipulation, beverage size and placing bad food in lower-selling spots. Because when you realize your vending machine sucks, then walk across the street to the 7-11 to get extra cheese sauce-drenched nachos and a Big Gulp, you’re getting exercise, right? [Inky]

There was another flash mob, this weekend. And yes, I’m calling it a flash mob – because, really, who cares what you call it? It’s idiots hurting people for no reason. Just because they’re not singing/dancing/having a fun time pillow fight doesn’t mean they don’t sometimes congregate on Twitter, like a flash mob. Anywho, two people were hurt and four, including an 11-year-old who will be tried as an adult, were arrested for alleged assault and conspiracy. “We will not tolerate marauding, destructive youth terrorizing our city,” said District Attorney Seth Williams. “We will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law, and we are working with the police to find ways to prevent these occurrences.” [Inky]

Tea Partiers want the city charter rewritten and hope to have 30,000 signatures by the August 9 deadline to do so. They hope to approve the creation of a “government study commission.” This was proposed in 1993 and 1994, but eventually blocked by union members and environmentalists. [Daily News]

Those five alleged freaks accused of sexual abuse involving the Philadelphia Archdiocese: They’ll be tried together. [Courthouse News]

Remember when former Senator Arlen Specter changed parties because there was no “center-right” anymore? How the Republican party had become a bunch of Tea Radicals, so suddenly obsessed with government spending, they were willing to cut funding to Planned Parenthood not because abortion “stops a beating heart,” but because abortions can be covered by Medicaid for the most desperate among us? Well, now, Specter says there’s “no center-left.” And he supports Karen Brown for mayor! [Post-Gazette]

Former Senatorial candidate/Crispin Glover stand-in Joe Sestak blames “partisanship” for Congress not coming to a stupid deal on the debt ceiling, which we never want to hear about, ever again. Sestak also blames his own loss in the November 2010 on not getting enough votes. [Post Gazette]

Your time to get messed up on bath salts is quickly evaporating. Senator Bob Casey’s bill, which would outlaw the stuff nationally and raise its price on the black market, has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee – and we thought all Congress has been doing, all the time, since forever, was debt ceiling stuff. [Politics PA]