Politics and other nightmares

What do you think about this?

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - 360 people a year. That's nearly one person a day. That's how many die from drunk driving accidents each year.  

In December, The National Transportation Safety Board recommended all states require what's called 'ignition interlock devices'.   

Here we go again. While I still think teaching cursive writing is important and losing it as a skill would make us poorer (see here), I'm not sure this is a good idea:

For the "well, duh" file:

Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.

Robert Samuelson asks a very reasonable question: If we can't kill farm subsidies, what can we kill?

Indianapolis Monthly has an in-dept look at Mike Pence's politics and the gubernatorial campaign he waged. It has this not-terribly-original observation:

In case you want to keep track of proposed legislation in the new session of the Indiana General Assembly, you can go here. It shows what the bills are about and who's sponsoring them, and it updates when votes are taken.

OK, show of hands: Who's shocked?

Democrats say they want to raise as much as $1 trillion in new revenues through tax reform later this year to balance Republican demands to slash mandatory spending.

How dare she keep a gun in the same house with her kids! Whatever was this woman thinking of?

How dare she keep a gun in the same house with her kids! Whatever was this woman thinking of?

He just doesn't give up, does he?

INDIANAPOLIS -- The chairman of the Senate education committee, who last year unsuccessfully sought the teaching of creationism in schools, now wants public schools to have the option of beginning each day with the Lord's Prayer.