Can we please have an "ask a social worker" event? I have so many questions.

Can I add to the squee? I'm needing some squee tonight. I got to hang out with this puppy tonight at Austin Pets Alive.

Goodnight black stars,
Goodnight dive bars,
Goodnight Rust,
Goodnight drug busts,
Goodnight Marty,
Goodnight watch parties,
Goodnight LeDoux,
Goodnight, "True,"
Please have ladies in season 2.

I say they end the series after this season. Fuck the 2nd season. Nothing can ever be this good. Stay Gold, Ponyboy!

I'm waiting for the East Coast - West Coast beef that starts when this spreads to Disneyworld.

I never thought I'd see something whiter than criminal motorcycle gangs, but here we are.

I always want to call when I see Philly parents screaming at their children and being verbally abusive, but I feel like the cops won't see that as actual abuse (even though it very much is).

AMEN.

I'm a Londoner, so it's almost legally mandated that I say Jack the Ripper!

The Zodiac Killer! Horrible of course because it's real, but it's Jack the Ripper-style creepy and weird. Dude sent cryptograms to the newspapers, and they almost caught him once when they tracked him to a payphone from which he called the police to taunt them. All they found was the phone swinging from the hook....

Got to go with a classic. Jack The Ripper.

I live in Florida where it is now a law that EVERYONE is a mandatory reporter. EVERYONE. If you even suspect neglect or abuse and you don't report it, it's a felony. I was in *unspecified super block store* with my son when he was about 10 months old, and I was looking for a specific blanket I had seen a couple of…

My husband and I are obsessed with the money pit on Oak Island. We talk about it all the time. This article links you to the History Channel series. It was also featured on an episode of Ancient Aliens. It's really fascinating and worth reading about.

I've always been kind of fascinated with the Lizzie Borden case. Wonder what really happened there, and the films made about it are interesting, but still can't answer the question.

From one social worker to another: thanks.

God, I'll never forget my first. I would love to, but I can't. You get the warmings you meet the ones that can't hack it and quit. It's a mindfuck for sure. You never ever are prepared for those little cases that turn out to be so huge. I have a co-worker who broke down when she got a case of what we all thought was…

There is a fine line. We live in a fucked up world. We live in a world where a perfectly loving home that happens to agree with spanking might get DHS called on them and that wastes resources. I don't care if you spank your kids I was spanked. If you are leaving bruises then I have an issue with you and I'll…

My thoughts, from a non-parent but as a kid who had no idea her parents had sex while growing up (they did, evidently, I just never heard of it!): You yell in anger because someone did something wrong. You keep sex quiet because it's courteous—to your kids, to a roommate, to anyone. Maybe it's just a Victorian concept…

My bedroom was next to my parents for most of my childhood and when I was old enough to know what they were doing it was so disturbing. I could also hear them fight and I would much rather hear that. Though the few times I heard them fight about sex were even worse that hearing the sex (I am still scarred by the fight…

I'm a big fan of the Toynbee Tiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_t…