Author Archives: Jay Butchko
What If Pennsylvania Is Not The First State Where You Get Accused Of A Sexual Offense?
Anyone with a prior criminal conviction knows that the social stigma lasts well beyond when you have paid off the debts you incurred to pay your criminal fines and long after your last meeting with your probation officer. Every time you fill out a job application, your heart sinks whenever you must answer the… Read More »
Is There Screen Time In Prison?
You don’t have to click on your favorite social media app very many times before you end up in a feedback loop about how screen time is ruining society. There is a line of thinking, quite prominent on online content platforms, about how electronic devices and the noisy, fast-paced videos they play, are zapping… Read More »
Western Pennsylvania Man Gets Felony Charges For Following Chatbot’s Clanker-Brained Relationship Advice
Love has always been difficult, since long before the greeting card companies commercialized Valentine’s Day. Medieval poems in Arabic and Persian tell of lovers dying from sadness upon separation from their beloved; sometimes they simply died of intensity of emotion while their beloved was still present, as if love itself were fatal, regardless of… Read More »
Misbranding A Controlled Substance
Among life’s greatest pleasures is stopping for a meal in one of Pennsylvania’s roadside diners, where every table is stocked with an array of condiments. Everyone has a grumpy uncle who, upon being served the most affordable full breakfast in town, will complain that the ketchup in the glass bottles with the Heinz labels… Read More »
