Big bucks for an extensive study to State the Obvious:
From football thugs on the front line, most conflict can be blamed on the male sex drive, a study suggests.
Big bucks for an extensive study to State the Obvious:
From football thugs on the front line, most conflict can be blamed on the male sex drive, a study suggests.
Say, this is different -- a court decision that actually protects our privacy:
What is it about New Jersey and Oregon that makes their drivers lazy wimps?
New Jersey residents aren't primed about pumping their own gasoline.
A new poll shows nearly two-thirds support the state rule requiring that only station attendants can pump gas in the Garden State.
For the first time in its 71-year history, the Chicago Sun-Times says it will not make endorsements in the upcoming elections.
In an editorial published Monday, the Sun-Times essentially said as a newspaper endorsements are passé at a time when there are so many other sources of information that “allow even a casual voter to be better informed than ever before.”
Labor activists are deciding whether to go ahead with protests that could include Teamsters clogging city streets with trucks and electricians staging a slowdown at the convention center site of the NFL village. What's holding them back is a fear the effort could create a backlash from those who think sports and politics don't mix.
Huh. Something I did not know about Indiana law:
It's likely that Super Bowl XLVI revelers Downtown will be able to carry open alcoholic drinks outside the bars where they bought them when festivities rev up on Jan. 27.
This is supposed to be a bombshell?
Earlier in the evening, ABC News had broadcast a portion of an interview with Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne Gingrich, who told the network that in the 1990s her then-husband asked for an “open marriage” during an affair with former congressional aide and current wife, Callista.
Not much about the Costa Concordia story is inspiring, is it? You remember the Titanic, women and children first and all that. If you think that fairy tale stuff is true, you probably still believe the captain should go down with his ship:
House Speaker John Boehner is announcing that Mitxch Daniels will be giving the Republican response to the State of the Union speech next week. From his remarks:
Another sign that end times are near. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal editorial pages agree on the Keystone XL pipeline rejection. WAPO editors:
Wednesday’s rejection, TransCanada promised to reapply — so the administration has again punted the final decision until after the election.
They're continuing to work out the bugs of the new blog platform, and I'm passing along all your concerns as they try to fine-tune things. The newest addition is my ability to approve authors as well as individual blogs posts (which gets to be tedious). So, to all my regulars: The next time you comment, I can give you author approval, which means all your future comments will be posted automatically. (Phil Marx and Christopher Swing -- you were the first to comment after I got author-approval capability, so you're already in.)
Juxtaposition of the day.
First up, right to work:
If the right-to-work law can be called the "right to work for less" law, I think it's fair to call the practice of licensing the "right to work for more" mechanism:
A bill making its way before leaders in Indiana would eliminate the need for some professions, like hairdressers and barbers, to be licensed and it's causing outrage in the cosmetology industry.
This seems like a misguided protest, or at least a premature one:
LOS ANGELES — An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week’s “Modern Family’’ episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.
Get ready for a "passionless presidential race," Robert Reich warned recently on salon.com. Liberals will support President Obama "without enthusiasm," conservatives will pull the lever for Romney only grudgingly, leaving the country "with two presidential candidates who don't inspire—at the very time in American history when Americans crave inspiration."
A state Senate committee has approved a bill to back away from the Indiana Supreme Court's assertion that Hoosiers have no right ever to resist unlawful police entry, and they seem to be on the right track. An amendment was offered to take out a line giving officers the right to enter "if there is suspected domestic or family violence" because the language was so broad that it could always be used to justify entry.
This story makes me feel as if I've stumbled unawares into The Onion site:
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he is worried that a new District of Columbia law that governs how pest control operators must handle rats may result in entire rodent “families” being relocated across the Potomac River into Virginia by D.C. pest control personnel.
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Couch potatoes, arise! Er, make that, "Sit! Stay!"
They're telling me they included an automatic rerouter so clicking on the old links and booksmarks should bring you right here. Let me know if that ain't so.
