2019

Jessie Nelson with her friend and business partner, Leanne, at 713 Walnut Street, the site of a soon-to-open “three-quarter house” in support of recovering addicts. | Photo via https://fundly.com/m2/h-e-r-home. Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/news/20190910/her-home-to-offer-hope-for-erie-women-in-recovery Addiction and recovery is something I think about all the time. It’s not just that […]

S*** the President Says – 9/9/2019

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, some s*** the president said during the previous week: This tweet from eight days ago seems harmless, right? Well, yes and no. Alabama has been out of Hurricane Dorian’s forecasted path for about 96 hours when this tweet went out, so it’s weird. It’s like if I said on Monday, “Hey, […]

Behrend wins $26 million medical research grant – Something good happened in Erie, 9/6/2019

Image via psi.behrend.psu. Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://behrend.psu.edu/feature/behrend-lab-will-advance-26-million-magee-womens-research-institute-initiative-erie This week’s good news highlight begins with Magee Women’s Research Institute (“MWRI”), which is apparently a separate but related entity from “Hamot,” reaching out for a research partner. Honestly, it would be good enough news just to realize that the UPMC […]

S*** the President Says – 9/3/2019

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, some s*** the president said during the previous week: Why, yes, the president did tweet out a top secret military spy satellite photo, giving away more confidential information than a gajillion Hillary emails. How much info was this? You’d be surprised. Speaking of Hillary, I don’t remember anyone arguing that the […]