April 2012
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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...
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“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)
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“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!
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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...
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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...
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Should We Kill The Dollar Bill? →
My love for NPR and Planet Money knows no bounds.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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41 percent of income tax filers pay zilch →
by Kim Leonard for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (kind of living up to that objective news/conservative views tagline they’re been using lately).
SPOILER ALERT: its because most of them are really f***ing poor
(or their money is hidden in tax shelters, so either way no one is a winner!)
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Industry Grille
Right before we moved out of Lawrenceville last year, they had started working on a space in our block destined to become the Industry Grille.
Seeing as how its taken forever to get it up and running I am a bit curious about what its like. While the bar itself seems to be trying to take advantage of steampunk sentiments, when I drove by it this week I was astounded at the number of televisions...
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“If your dreams are better than your life, what is the point? Your dreams...”
– Karl Pilkington knows what’s up.
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D-A Wants to Know if County Worker Blocked... →
Can I just say how awful hearing about the WPIC shooting was? How grateful I was that no one I knew was hurt and how heartbreaking it was to read about the employee who was shot and killed?
It was and I am and I cried. But I also want to say that since then, over a month ago, there just seems to be a lot of finger pointing as to who could carry blame for this.
I hate to say this (do I? or...
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fun with time travel!
Yesterday Steve got sucked into an internet rabbit hole and I wanted to share what he found.
Back in 1992, when Quantum Leap was on, they wanted to air an episode that dealt with a teenager, who was gay, contemplating suicide.
NBC said “ehhhhh, no” — i.e. their standards and practices department rejected the script (for a variety of different reasons, see the articles below...
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things recently worn
I’ve continued taking pictures of my outfits to “showcase” my personal style but have failed in the equally important step of uploading them here. Fear not, I’m still getting up every morning and dressing myself, sometimes with great success.
So below you can find a total of five! different outfits displayed at varying degrees of photo quality:
First up is what I wore...
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When “stand your ground” fails →
John McNeil killed a white man who assaulted him in his home. But, unlike George Zimmerman, he’s serving life
by Rania Khalek, Salon.com
Civil rights activist Markel Hutchins agrees and has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s stand your ground law because the law is not applied equally to African-Americans. He accuses the courts of accepting “the race of a victim as evidence to...
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Judge Fines J&J $1.1 Billion Over Antipsychotic... →
Risperdal, introduced in 1994, is a “second-generation” antipsychotic drug that earned Johnson & Johnson billions of dollars in sales before generic versions became available several years ago. It is used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and irritability in autism patients. Risperdal and similar antipsychotic drugs have been linked to increased risk of strokes and death...
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