We've heard about Nazi Germany as the model of scary totalitarian states in which children are brainwashed to spy on their parents and inform on them if they do not follow accepted doctrine. Is this the same kind of thing or not?
They're watching you right now.
They counted every beer you drank during last night's Red Sox game.
They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke.
And I thought Indiana's alcohol laws were convoluted:
The state Senate's Law and Justice Committee is trying to liberalize beer sales in Pennsylvania.
Today it approved House Bill 1420, which would permit beer distributors to sell one, two or three six-packs of beer at a time. Currently, distributors can only sell full cases of either 24 or 30 cans.
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Don't know how Fort Wayne let Monroe County sneak in ahead of us to score this potential first:
Bloomington - A proposed ordinance in Monroe County could extend a smoking ban to include cars when children are present. It's a relatively new idea across the country and is creating controversy in central Indiana.
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Everybody says this case, in which a judge ordered a defendant who had pleaded guilty to fondling a girl to go to the newspaper and admit he lied when he told a reporter that he had not fondled the girl, is unique. It's new to me, too, but I've been covering politics so long that I'm not exactly shocked that someone might not tell the complete truth to a newspaper. Something called the "Alford plea," which I had not heard of, is mentioned:
It looks like Isiah Thomas can't help but bring embarrassment and controversy to whoever is stupid enough to hire him:
Simon Rios gets four life terms for killing his family, and Prosecutor Karen Richards unloads:
Rios himself spoke at length Monday, sobbing through his stories, through his claims at finding God, his pleas for forgiveness and his desire to see his “princesses” someday again.
They're all just trying to get to Indiana as fast as they can for our excellent breaded tenderloins:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State troopers issued 1,416 speeding tickets last year to drivers going more than 100 mph, an offense that Ohio labels a minor misdemeanor and is punishable by a $150 fine.
It's nice to know there are still some constants in a rapidly changing world:
Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again.
The way things have been going lately, we should be grateful the court got this one right:
He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
Fort Wayne smokers, you need to change your tactics. Stop fighting City Council and trying to get exceptions to the smoking ban for bars or restaurants that spent thousands of dollars trying to comply with the earlier version of the ban. You need to: 1. Become a Muslim. 2. Organize all the other smoking Muslims you are able to meet or convert. 3. March on City Hall to demand your rights:
