I watched the Eagles-Skins game last week, and like most Eagles fans, proceeded to curse at the TV over and over as Andy Reid's pass fetish doomed another Eagles season. The season was dead, and for the first time ever, I was ready for Reid to pack up a couple of hoagies and hit the road.

But then, in a bizarrely impossible sequence of events, the Iggles were rescued by a terrible Raiders team beating our frenemies, Jon Gruden and Jeff Garcia, and then promptly destroyed the Cowboys by 38 points. Somehow, the Eagles are very much alive in the playoff race.

I wondered after the Phillies won if it would make me less of a cynical fan. Uh, nope. I also wondered what effect the win would have on our city's psyche in general. But, the day after the bestPhiladelphiaweekever, with the Phillies win, the parade and then Obamarama, we got an early gift of Christmas coal, when Mayor Nutter announced that he was instituting savage cuts to city services.

Most of those cuts have played themselves out, with layoffs, with cuts to Fairmount Park, with community college funding shrinking. And yet, one small decision of the Mayor- to force a 20% cut on the library system, thereby forcing the closure of 11 branches- has stuck in the craw of Philadelphians like nothing else. Across the City, Philadelphians have angrily demanded that the Mayor change course. However, for a reason that I cannot fathom, the Mayor refuses to even consider budging. It appears that stubbornness is being mistaken for steadfastness.

Luckily however, not only is the Mayor's decision to kill 11 library branches short-sighted, it is illegal. And so, tomorrow morning, 7 brave citizens, along with the union representing librarians and three members of City Council, will stand up to the Mayor, and demand that he follow the law.

The Phillies won. Obama won. The Eagles were just handed a bizarrely fortunate gift. Will the children of Philadelphia get their own miracle?

Come see it unfold: City Hall, room 426, 10AM.