I wanted to title this 57 Jackasses in Philadelphia, but thought the word jackass shouldn't go in the title.

Here's what it's all about:

Workers began installing 57 fiberglass donkeys across the city Thursday for the Democratic National Convention, which comes to town at the end of July. They represent all 50 states, five territories, Washington, D.C. and overseas Democrats, and they'll be placed at various locations around the city.

Here are two links where you can see pictures of these jackasses.

http://www.phillyvoice.com/the-latest-fiberglass-donkeys-swarm-philly-fo...

And here's a link to an opinion piece, with a picture, encouraging people not to vandalize these 57 jackasses just placed on a sidewalk throughout the City.

http://www.phillyvoice.com/hey-philly-lets-not-vandalize-those-donkeys-s...

Whose brilliant idea was it to create these donkeys? What a waste of money and it won't promote anything. And at the end of May, beginning of June, the DNC and Ed Rendell were crying about being 10 million dollars short for the convention.

And from the first link above:

The DNC host committee will hold a scavenger hunt through a smartphone app. The app will encourage visitors to find and complete challenges on their phone at each donkey.

Delegates will have a chance to take home the donkeys after the convention. Any remaining will be auctioned off with proceeds being split among the artists.

Again, are you kidding me? Install an app from the DNC? No way. And run around Center City Philadelphia at the end of July to find each donkey and complete a challenge? They're out of their minds.

And "a chance to take home the donkeys after the convention?" How about we use that money to actually get delegates to Philly at the inflated hotel rates.

(I apologize if this posts twice. The first time I hit preview, it came back with a blank page, and then it seemed like c99 was down a couple minutes. So maybe the first one went through. I don't know.)