I drive a 12-year-old Pontiac, and make of that what you will:
Scientists have long wondered whether infidelity can be predicted by what's in our genes. But a new survey suggests it may come down to what's in our garage.
The Indiana Supreme Court tackles the mo-ped/motorized bike confusion:
Quite the epic church-state battle going on here in Indiana:
Striking down Indiana’s school voucher program because some schools are affiliated with churches would amount to unnecessary government interference into religion, the law’s supporters argue in court documents.
The ads run by the Lugar campaign slamming Richarcd Mourdock are some of the nastiest I've ever seen, getting pretty close to character assassination. Others have noticed this, too:
Dick Lugar has the reputation, deserved or not, of being the gentleman of the Senate, a now-grandfatherly figure who is well-liked personally if not politically.
Finally, someone with the courage to ask the bold question: "Lincoln had one. So did Uncle Sam. Why don't politicians today grow beards?"
Somebody stop those wild and crazy nuns!
The Vatican has launched a crackdown on the umbrella group that represents most of America’s 55,000 Catholic nuns, saying that the group was not speaking out strongly enough against gay marriage, abortion and women’s ordination.
The logical next step for the Occupy movement is here:
In the spirit of spring rebirth, the Occupy movement is ramping up activities as warm weather blankets the country. But while the season is typified by a reawakening of life outdoors, demonstrators are using sleep to get their points across. They call it "sleepful protest."
Young people not eager to get their licenses and start driving? It's practically un-American:
Young Americans are eschewing cars for alternative transport, leaving carmakers to wonder if this is a recession-induced trend or a permanent shift in habits.
No doubt you've noticed the endorsements: the Club for Growth for Richard Mourdock; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for Richard Lugar. There is an epic battle going on, and Indiana is right in the middle of it:
Big business and the Tea Party are at swords' points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party.
Let's at least note in passing the end of an era this week as the space shuttle Discovery took a piggyback ride to its final museum resting place. I've seen two sets of strong opinions on this. One is a sad lament that perhaps we're done in space.
The usual hand-wringing victimologists harangue us over the annual celebration of a phony issue:
In Indiana, women earn about 72 cents to every dollar a man does; nationwide the average is 77 cents.
About 30 people gathered Tuesday morning to highlight those facts at an Equal Pay Day rally at the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, 2417 Fairfield Ave.
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Something for the kind-of-creepy-but-kind-of-cool-too file:
An Indiana monument company is taking gravestones out of the stone-age and giving them a high tech feature.
This is news? Did anybody really think there was a chance he would have picked Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels today endorsed Mitt Romney for president, becoming the latest high-profile Republican to end his neutrality and urge unity behind his party's likely nominee.
Here's a shock -- somebody who was actually responsible for something might actually be held accountable:
Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday outlined a handful of changes Indiana is taking following last year's deadly state fair stage collapse.
Emblazoned on the Supreme Court building’s façade is the promise of “equal justice under law.” Yet the horrendously complicated tax code illustrates how far the government has strayed from that promise. Sadly, the purpose of those 73,608 pages of federal tax rules is not equal treatment but the top-down manipulation of society by Washington.
The Pulitzer was already beginning to seem a liitle enervated and effete to me, with the likes of Tom Friedman and Eugene Robinson winning for columns. Now this awful, awful, AWFUL cartoon has won. And check out more of his work here -- all just as terrible. They're unfunny, poorly drawn label cartoons that would have seemed trite even in the 1930s. What the hell were they thinking?
We all knew landlines were on the way out, but it looks like their demise might come even quicker than we realized:
Even before we start weighing pros and cons, this seems like a bad idea:
Students at a southern Indiana high school are learning that hard work really does pay off.
That's because they're being rewarded with cash for good grades.
At Jeffersonville High School, students are paid $100 for every advanced placement test they pass.
This article is recommended for any of my fellow science fiction fans. Lately I've been rereading some of my favorite Robert Heinlein stuff from when I was much younger. One thing you notice right away -- since "the future" he was writing in the 1940s and 1950s has mostly come and gone by now -- is how wrong he got many things. But that doesn't make his novels any less interesting. Furthermoere:
Don't worry, be happy! According to the first United Nations' World Happiness Report from the Earth Institute at Columbia University:
