Ecclesiastes 3 doesn't mention this specifically, but since it does say "to every thing there is a season," it can reasonably be inferred: A time to be funny and a time to keep your trap shut:
A man who police said struck an officer with his pickup truck outside Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the Brickyard 400 was arrested after officers determined that he had been drinking.
This is awful: Indians Slay Knights. How did it happen, and how many victims are there? How did Indians and Knights even get into the same era anyway? Was it bows-and-arrows against lances? No wonder the Indians won.
Oh, wait. It's a sports story. Never mind.
Some new buildings in Columbus are higher than the Bartholomew County Courthouse, which means people can look down into courtrooms, so they're spending $8,000 on tinted windows. Is this a legitimate expenditure or the wasting of taxpayer money on paranoid fears?
Commissioner Paul Franke said judges worried that those perches "gave too much of a full view" of the interiors of courtrooms on the courthouse's second and third floors.
Lots of disagreement out there with my idea that, in voting to affirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, Sen. Richard Lugar is playing by the old rules of civility, all but conceding the game to the people playing by the new, tougher rules. The Richmond Palladium-Item, for example, says those who would label Lugar a turncoat or a traitor "offer demonstrable proof of an electorate so rigidly partisan that they have helped to make governing an untenable task."
This sounds like an admission of incompetence to me:
Indiana's human services agency says it found problems with IBM Corp.'s takeover of welfare intake services early in the project and suggested delays, but yielded to the company's wishes to expand the project.
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Now that evil, selfish conservatives are being beaten back by the benevolent, kind-hearted liberals so the downtrodden unemployed can start getting checks again, I have a question: Where is that line between compassion and heartlessness?
A bill advancing in Congress that would restore unemployment benefits for millions of Americans could help about 80,000 Indiana residents who have been out of work more than six months.
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Here's my nomination for a family that needs intervention and some strong counseling:
It's not illegal for people in Indiana to have monkeys as pets, but a Hamilton County family is defending their primate. Bobbi Phelan said the patas monkey is more than a pet, he's a member of the family.
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Unilateral disarmament might bring peace, but it might not be the peace desired:
Sen. Richard Lugar on Wednesday became one of the first Republicans to back Elena Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
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He believes that in most cases, Congress should defer to a president's preference in nominations to appointed positions.
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A good example from South Bend of the anger that's been building in the public over politicians at all levels. The Tribune newspaper there did a story pointing out that County Council member Heath Weaver had attended only two meetings so far this year and only five in the last 10 months, racking up by far the worst attendance record of any council member. The reporter talked to the councilman, who said he would not resign because he would not "miss any more meetings." He then offered the usual excuse:
Yeah, well, we'll see:
The Indianapolis Colts head the linesmakers' lists but they are on offer at odds of 8/1 (bet $10 to make $80 profit), when the pre-season favorite is usually around the 5/1 mark or lower. Odds of 8/1 suggest that the Colts have a 11 per cent chance of lifting the Vince Lombardi trophy next February.
