I know this is peanuts in the overall government waste, fraud and abuse scandal, but it's still galling:
I know this is peanuts in the overall government waste, fraud and abuse scandal, but it's still galling:
"Vertigo"? The best movie of all time? Really?
Well, this is what some of us have been longing for. And to have it noticed by The New York Times!
Kind of hard to maintain American exceptionalism when the people in charge don't even believe in it:
Just in time for my fuddy-duddy "this dang music today is awful" stage comes this validation:
The scepticism about modern music shared by many middle-aged fans has been vindicated by a study of half a century's worth of pop music, which found that today's hits really do all sound the same.
What? Women get the whole rest of the store, and I'm supposed to be excited about having one stinking aisle?
The idea was to give the lonely male lost in a supermarket a fun shopping experience, putting everything a man's man would need in one place. And New York City's Westside Market has gone and done justthat.
In the age of tweets and texting, are zero-tolerance grammarians going to have a smaller and smaller pool of acceptable applicants?
Go for the Gold, baby, then give the IRS its share:
American medalists face a top income tax rate of 35 percent. Under U.S. tax law, they must add the value of their Olympic medals and prizes to their taxable income. It is therefore easy to calculate the tax bite on Olympic glory.
Is this an indication of what Gregg would do as governor, waste his energy and our time on something that's not even a real issue?
INDIANAPOLIS | Democrat John Gregg has vowed that women in Indiana will earn equal pay for equal work if he's elected governor.
RIP, Gore Vidal, who along with William F. Buckley was responsible for perhaps the greatest exchange every in political talk show history:
The Indianapolis Star's Matthew Tully on whether fire-breathing conservative Mike Pence can stay calm and focused and, I guess, pragmatic as governor:
Making the only decision possible and feeling a little frustrated over it:
The United States Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Arizona’s immigration law as unconstitutional means portions of Indiana’s immigration law dealing with warrantless arrests cannot be defended, Attorney General Greg Zoeller said today in a legal brief filed in federal court.
Elizabeth Warren, who gave a "You didn't build that" speech even before President Obama did, now thinks the United States should be more like China:
Massachusetts residents who tuned in to the Olympics opening ceremony saw a new 30-second campaign commercial from the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren, that said America should be more like Communist China.
Happy birthday to "the man who saved capitalism":
The question in Texas isn't whether a Republican will succeed Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the U.S. Senate but what kind of Republican. It's beginning to look like "extreme" tea party conservative Ted Cruz might knock off long-term membr of the Texas GOP establishment David Dewhurst in the primary. If that sounds awfully familiar, it should:
A victim of the digital revolution not as obvious as some others:
Today's headline in need of a second look by the copy editor:
Are migraines more common than thought?
Actually, I've discovered thought is a lot less common than I'd supposed it was.
Good God almighty, Mitt, don't you have enough trouble explaining Romneycare without shooting your mouth off like this?
JERUSALEM — Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney offered praise for the Israeli health care system today — a medical plan that has been socialized since its founding in 1948.
An Indiana-based medical device company is canceling plans to build five new plants in the Midwest because of the hit it will take from the 2.3 percent excise tax imposed by Obamacare.
Some conservatives are freaking out because they think Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scali a, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, is waffling on gun control and won't be as staunch a Second Amendment supporter as they had supposed he would be:
