New research finds that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomena that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution.
No, I don't really believe this hype any more than I do any of the other hysterical nonsense. Did give me a case of the giggles, though.
Sigh. Even conservatives don't really want to reduce the influence of Washington:
The last people in the world we would have thought needed adult supervision are going to have some adult supervision:
Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated.
More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase 'power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely' scientists claim the saying is biologically true.
Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. When Emily Herx was fired from her Catholic school teaching job for getting in vitro ferilization treatments, she had to listen to this:
Herx says the school's priest called her a "grave, immoral sinner" and told her she should have kept mum about her fertility treatments because some things are "better left between the individual and God," the complaint said.
Not up for the driver-of-the-year award:
VALPARAISO | A Porter County sheriff's officer involved in five vehicle-related incidents was relieved of his duties Thursday afternoon.
Oh, this is too easy. Michelle Obama and I have the same fantasy!
It is hard to sneak around and do what you want," Michelle Obama said today. "I have done it a couple of times. But you know one fantasy I have, and the Secret Service they keep looking at me because they think I might actually do it, is to walk right out the front door and just keep walking."
Boy, somebody should nip this malfeasance in the bud before other politicians start imitating the idea:
A township trustee in northeastern Indiana won't be collecting any property taxes this year, saying the township has plenty of money in the bank.
I have a neighbor to whom I'm eternally grateful. As long as she lives there, I'll never have the worst lawn on the black. Same deal here:
Is there a conspiracy out there to make me paranoid? First I see this tidbit about what might be going on in my co-workers' nasty little minds:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Your co-workers are judging you. Beneath a veneer of professional collegiality, they’re taking note of the mess on your desk, how loudly you chew, even your word choices.
It puts a strain on the whole family when Grampy gets grumpy, but, hey, it's a natural thing. A Journal & Courier columnist spots "Richard Lugar on an unfamiliar low road":
Lugar's guys ask whether the state treasurer, who keeps gaining in the polls ahead of the May 8 primary, is: "Incompetent? Careless? Tax Cheat?"
Stop thinking in terms of economic issues such as profit and loss, says a historian specializing in the American Revolution -- the postal service is a civic institution, not a business:
This is a worse nanny state intrusion than the "Here, Kid, eat this and go tell your mother she doesn't care enough about you to give you healthy food" lunchroom incident:
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.
Interesting ethical dilemma in the social media age:
Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate contact with the academic benefits of social networking.
"It ain't over till it's over" department:
Twenty-nine years after he was shot and permanently paralyzed from the neck down, a Fort Wayne man has died.
The Allen County Coroner's Office has ruled the death Friday of Brian Burtz was a homicide.
I can't decide if this is godawful tacky or absolutely brilliant:
A Chinese company is creating some buzz online for naming its sunglasses line for Helen Keller, the deaf and blind American woman who became an advocate for people with disabilities.
Feeling nice and safe today, are you?
Can the Tea Party beat Dick Lugar? Yes, it's quite possible, says Allysia Finley, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer and assistant editor of OpinionJournal.com
Today is Earth Day, the annual bacchanalia of self abuse invented by the environmental movement to remind everyone that the human race is a pestilence upon this planet. It is a celebration by the self righteous for the hysterical.
