Re: Gross daily grievances.

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There's now another witness against Moore. I think that helps.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 3:22 PM
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And this one, he signed her high school yearbook. Thirty-something DAs sign high school girls' yearbooks all the time, right? That's perfectly normal, right?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 3:25 PM
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Recommended Daily Grievance Allowance


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 3:27 PM
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3 to the post title


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 3:28 PM
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What's that thing when people are embarrassed to tell the truth to the pollster?

The Bradley effect.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 3:34 PM
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Because of ugly purses.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 5:38 PM
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Also, Moore was apparently banned from the mall in the town where he was assistant DA. "Imagine being banned from a shopping mall. The fellow who carries six china dolls in a chest pouch and shouts the CIA can't have them, he isn't banned. - Richard M. Nixon"


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:08 PM
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7: He was banned because he insisted on saying, "Merry Christmas!"


Posted by: Bill O'Reilly | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:12 PM
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2: It's also perfectly normal for them to put "D.A." after their name when they sign. Because they might forget.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:18 PM
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In the Alabama justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who date children. These are their stories.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:24 PM
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10 might be the best yet.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:26 PM
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Dick Wolf is a genius.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:28 PM
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DUH-DUH!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:35 PM
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AKA shy Tory effect.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:53 PM
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I thought that was when you couldn't pee unless you were in a stall.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 6:55 PM
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Recent tweet in my timeline:

Just came across a dude on Tinder who described himself as "Times New Roman in the streets, Wingdings in the sheets" and I'm both horrified and impressed

So, someone here?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 7:18 PM
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Pittsburgh alternative paper fights back against the Johnstown=American Carnage stories.

But Adams also voted for Trump, and by a bigger margin than Cambria County. The town backed Trump by a 39 point margin over Clinton (68 percent voted for Trump, 29 percent for Clinton). So why don't national publicans travel to wealthy suburbs like Adams to write stories about Trump supporters? Electorally, they provide similar support.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 8:11 PM
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I vaguely remembered that Johnstown (the city) voted for Clinton, because there was another article way back that had also profiled the town as a typical Trump-supporting town. Glad to have that verified.


Posted by: Ponder Stibbons | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 9:37 PM
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I like Times New Roman and I'm not afraid to say it.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-13-17 10:09 PM
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Cambria

Also a font.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 12:25 AM
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So why don't national publicans travel to wealthy suburbs like Adams to write stories about Trump supporters? Electorally, they provide similar support.

Because gawking at rural goobers is fun, but gawking at suburban goobers hits too close to home?


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 3:59 AM
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That's why I really liked that Washington Post piece about the Swedish ambassador who decided to see what the fuck was up with the Americans and she started in (wealthy, white, suburban) Upper St. Clair instead of a half-empty mill town.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 6:22 AM
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22: Peters Township.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 6:24 AM
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Same difference, as far as I know.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 6:29 AM
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Clair is a girl, Peter is a boy. Happy to help, Mobes!


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:21 AM
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Transphobic.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:25 AM
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Peters kids were hayseeds from redneck Washington County. Upper St. Lily White Clair kids were sophisticates from bleeding-edge Allegheny County. Heard from a friend.


Posted by: bill | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:33 AM
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I think Allegheny County has been bleeding more since your friend heard.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:35 AM
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Per Wikipedia, the median household income in both places is now about the same and high (over $100k).


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:39 AM
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Q. How do you know the toothbrush was invented in Peters?

A. Anywhere else, it would be teethbrush.

Ah, youth.


Posted by: bill | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:46 AM
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I don't really know go there enough to keep everything separate in my head. It's basically Mt. Lebanon, Dormont, Carnegie, and "other South Hills." I do most of my performative whiteness in the eastern exurbs.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:50 AM
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27: Peters has changed quite a bit over the last 30 years.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 10:59 AM
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Similarly with Adams (Cranberry) in the article. It was mostly farms with some smallish tract housing, and then they built I-279.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 11:01 AM
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One's over the county line. It's a Cranberry of the south, though maybe the schools are better.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 11:02 AM
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Mount Lebanon is the place with the really good schools. Carnegie is on Chartiers Creek, further west, so it isn't on the T. But its downtown has added a lot of fun places in the last decade (check out the meadery)--a yinzer friend says when he was growing up it was known for its funeral parlors. Dormont is like Mount Leb but it's a closer and more walkable community (yet still on the T).


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 11:05 AM
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I think I have brunch in Carnegie recently. Restaurant named after bacon. It was good but not good enough to make driving that far a regular event.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 11:53 AM
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Leonard Bernstein?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:17 PM
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"It's the end of the world and I know it...."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 7:22 PM
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I think it's called the Thatcher effect, for easily-inferred reasons.


Posted by: edna k. | Link to this comment | 11-14-17 8:49 PM
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