May 2012
20 posts
6 tags
NRA, Where Art Thou? →
by Jason Silverstein, the Root. On Aug. 1, 2010, Alexander, of Jacksonville, Fla. — then a 31-year-old mother of three with a 9-day-old baby — fired a single warning shot into her ceiling after her husband, who had been arrested twice on domestic-battery charges, threatened her. He allegedly said, “If I can’t have you, nobody going to have you.” The shot hit no...
May 17th
1 note
3 tags
May 17th
2 notes
4 tags
May 17th
1 note
9 tags
Cash aid for disabled adults on Pa. chopping block →
I feel like just about everyone (well not everyone but I don’t want to talk about the gas drillers & frackers) is meant to lose in someway in this budget.  The governor will not, under any circumstance, consider any new taxes.  He’s open to suggestions for enforcement on current taxes.  [Uh, okay: why aren’t you already doing everything to collect the money the state is...
May 16th
2 notes
5 tags
May 16th
1 note
4 tags
May 15th
2 notes
4 tags
May 10th
1 note
5 tags
May 9th
7 notes
3 tags
five years!
me, on my last night in Bowling Green. I was at Uptown for 80’s night, a Monday tradition.  Five years ago today I packed up what remained of my life after college graduation and moved to Pittsburgh.  I couldn’t have done it without one of my bffs, Liz (+ her family), who I stayed with during the summer of 2007.  In those five years I started graduate school, met a great guy,...
May 8th
5 notes
4 tags
May 4th
1 note
4 tags
May 4th
May 3rd
2 notes
4 tags
May 3rd
3 tags
May 3rd
1 note
3 tags
Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about... →
FACT: Carmelized onions taste good on almost anything and can make bland things taste amazing. FACT: They take a really long time to make. FACT: I love them
May 2nd
3 notes
4 tags
May 2nd
1 note
2 tags
Man dies in hit-and-run in Penn Hills →
My boss just told me who the victim was.  I had worked with him on various occasions for reasons I can’t talk about it. I guess the point is that I knew him and he was a nice guy who didn’t deserve to be hit by a car and left to die on the side of the road (as if anyone does). So, I’m just going to be in my office bummed out for a while. 
May 2nd
1 note
4 tags
May 2nd
2 notes
4 tags
May 1st
4 tags
May 1st
3 notes
April 2012
69 posts
Apr 30th
3 notes
Apr 29th
1 note
Apr 27th
Apr 27th
5 tags
How do you know if your client is lying?
There was a day during my final semester in graduate school where this question was asked twice, in two different classes. Both times it was a part of a joke but the context and result were incredibly different.  I like to tell this story because I think it illustrates just how vastly different two people with MSWs can be. The first time I heard the joke I was in a class whose name and...
Apr 27th
2 notes
5 tags
Apr 27th
136 notes
5 tags
Apr 26th
3 notes
2 tags
“This is how most unsophisticated fugitives get caught,” said Larry Likar,...”
– It’s really sad that someone lost his life because of this knucklehead.  -Sex, cocaine snared Konias on lam in Fla. (So obviously from the Tribune Review)
Apr 26th
1 note
5 tags
Apr 26th
1 note
4 tags
Apr 25th
1 note
5 tags
Apr 25th
Apr 24th
Apr 22nd
1 tag
Apr 22nd
1 note
4 tags
“LOWELL BERGMAN: For generations, the FBI and their fingerprint examiners have...”
– So, if you are interested in learning and being freaked out at the same time, may I recommend the frontline episode, The Real CSI. You can watch it online here. (It’s not yet available as a podcast via iTunes, but it should be soon) And hey, Pittsburghers, Cyril Wecht is in it!
Apr 21st
Apr 21st
1 note
4 tags
Playing Dirty in the Big Easy →
New Orleans prosecutors have a checkered history of trying to win-at-all-cost. Now a couple lawyers are trying to hold them accountable. By Emily Bazelon, Slate.com The least important but most interesting fact I learned from this article is that the District Attorny of New Orleans used to be Harry Connick, Sr.  Harry Connick Jr’s dad.  The rest is just a disturbing exploration of our...
Apr 21st
1 note
Apr 20th
5 tags
Apr 20th
2 notes
2 tags
I baked these
like… several weeks ago—maybe the shamrock sprinkles are a tip off. I had bought this “Whoopie Pies” cookbook at least a year ago after my attempts at making french macaroons turned out to be a total failure. I had tried making whoopie pies with regular ol’ chocolate cake batter and parchment paper and that was also a total disaster.  Most of the recipes require...
Apr 20th
1 note
4 tags
Should We Kill The Dollar Bill?  →
My love for NPR and Planet Money knows no bounds.
Apr 20th
1 note
6 tags
Apr 20th
2 notes
Apr 19th
Apr 19th
1 note
4 tags
Apr 19th
4 notes
4 tags
Apr 19th
4 tags
This. Now.: Let's Tone Down The 'Girls' Backlash,... →
ferniecommaalex: Here’s something that’s annoyed me… at some point in the 48 hours since it premiered on Sunday night, the reaction to Lena Dunham’s new show Girls has turned exceptionally nasty. Not “Hey, I didn’t like this show” nasty, but more like “I’m going to use Facebook and Tumblr and Twitter to tear… FACT: I really enjoyed watching girls. ALSO, FACT: I am really confused at...
Apr 19th
404 notes
5 tags
glamour shots!
I have real glamour shots, somewhere at my parents’ house.  I must look into where they are now.  So anyways, its cold in the mornings, warm in the afternoons but not warm enough and definitely cold enough to keep me from going bare-legged.  So some light blue tights to go along with stripes and orange fingernails & lips. A great look for sitting in one’s office and organizing...
Apr 18th
5 tags
Apr 18th
3 notes
5 tags
Activate the Mechanism!: Virginia passes bill to... →
abaldwin360: The Virginia Senate passed a bill Monday afternoon that would allow private adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex parents, according to The Washington Post. The bill, which passed by a 22-18 margin, gives adoption agencies the power to deny child placement if it conflicts with… Virgina wants to keep women who have unwanted pregnancies from going through with...
Apr 18th
390 notes