Well, guess we won't be hearing her sing the Monday night football song:
Susan Sarandon dropped a zinger or two when she appeared at the Bay Street Theatre Saturday for an interview with fellow actor Bob Balaban. The outspokenly political actress talked about Occupy Wall Street, recalled her run-ins with the NYPD over the Amadou Diallo case and called the current pope a "Nazi."
Always classy.
Today's videos spotlight two of the more interesting City Council races, the ones in the 2nd and 5th districts.
Boy, I'd sure like to hear the thinking behind this:
The political arm of the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce will support Democratic Mayor Tom Henry in the Nov. 8 election, Henry's campaign announced Monday.
I try not to pay to much atention to sensational trials, but I confess to getting a little caught up in the Conrad Murray case. Even granting that Michael Jackson bore the primary responsibility for Michael Jackson's behavior, Murray comes across as an incredible sleazeball (or "person of low character" as I heard one commentator call him). He was paid more than $1 million a year to look after just one patient, and he was so busy using Jackson to impress bedable women that he couldn't even handle that:
Even without Senate and congressional seats up for grabs, 2011 could turn out to be a landmark election year for Indiana women.
Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Gary could get their first women mayors in the Nov. 8 elections, breaking a political glass ceiling that has been slow to shatter.
When the city election candidates came for their editorial board interviews, I sat down with them afterwards to shoot short videos. It's nothing fancy, just the candidates sitting in the room where we interviewed them, answering five questions each. We shared the questions with the candidates at the start of the interview, so the answers they gave were based on having known the questions for half an hour to 45 minutes. I edited the videos so that instead of just seeing one candidate after another, you can see them in their individual races, each answering each question in turn.
Here's a nice, long article that ably presents the other side of the argument from what you'll usually read here. Say what you will about the New Deal, writes Michael Hiltzik, but American gained a great many benefits from it, and how many Americans would really want to do without them?
Aw, c'mon, Rick, a big, tough old boy like you, used to the down-and-dirty world of Texas politics, is feeling overwhelmed by a little national exposure?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he won't dispute his wife's assertion he's been "brutalized and beaten up and chewed up" in the presidential campaign.
Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White wanted to make the point that public schools have it tougher than private schools because they have to take all comers. He's now taking heat for the way he put it:
Advocacy groups are asking for an apology from the superintendent of the state's largest school district after he referred to children as "blind, crippled, crazy."
This article about Richard Lugar in Foreign Policy is called "Twilight of the Wise Man," which should tell you just what a flattering portrait it is. But its effect may be to increase the very disdain for Lugar the writer is lamenting. It talks about how happy Lugar was to be a foreign policy mentor to a young Sen.
Is this a case of the cure being worse than the disease? Larges flocks of birds, especially those messy, awful starlings and crows, like to congregate in large flocks in downtown Indianapolis during fall and winter. And they aren't going to take it:
This is an interesting point of view:
Secretary of State Charlie White is kind of flailing around in his efforts to defend himself against charges he committed voter fraud by using his ex-wife's address to vote in the May 2010 primary. He seems to have settled on a strategy of "Everybody's doing it, so why are you picking on me?" First, he tried unsuccessfully to get Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards to investigate Dan Sigler, one of the two special prosecutors in White's case, for vote fraud.
I'm not sure I can ever get over Romneycare, at least unless he explains it a lot better than he has. Just take a gander at this clip, showing Mitt heaping praise on Ted Kennedy as one of the "parents" of Massachusetts' universal health care efforts:
This Ted Kennedy lovefest footage from the 2006 bill-signing ceremony for the health care law is probably not what Romney wants GOP primary voters to have in mind when they enter a polling place or caucus meeting.
John Malone, like Ted Turner a cowboy-hat-wearing cable TV pioneer, has vaulted past Turner's 2 million acres to become America's biggest landowner with 2.2 million acres. He says real estate "is a pretty decent hedge on the devaluation of currency" and that now is the time to buy land "because of low borrowing costs and land prices."
Well, if you're a one-man team, you've got to expect a bad season when your man goes down:
Manning isn't just the most valuable football player of his era. He belongs in the conversation for most valuable in any team sport ever. He's mastered the game like no one since Otto Graham took the Cleveland Browns to the championship match in each of his 10 seasons more than a half-century ago.
Even though Burger King has dispatched its creepy mascot, we can still find strange fast-food ads. This is one from KFC I saw the other day, and I include it here in case you think I'm just a delusional rightwing Occupy Space hater. "What part of the chicken is the nugget?" says the ad. "Here, we sell popcorn chicken." Did not one person sitting around the ad-pitch table raise his little hand and ask, "But what part of the chicken is the popcorn?"
We're just starting our great charter school experiment in Indiana. We could do worse than study what New Orleans did right with charters:
I was about to say, "Well, you're certainly welcome!" but on second thought I don't think he was thanking me:
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer suggested Tuesday that voters are to blame for the partisan bickering and standoffs that have defined Congress this year.
