We have lots of Amish around here. How come no news outlet has done any hard-hitting reporting like this? Amish buggies no match for cars in collisions:
Two collisions that crushed horse-drawn buggies and critically injured two Amish men in Pennsylvania this month have renewed attention to the mismatch between fast, heavy metal motor vehicles and slow, lightweight wooden buggies.
Attention needed renewing? This just in: Bikes vs. trucks -- trucks win.
After every National Spelling Bee, it is required that at least one witty columnist write a piece making fun of all the exotic words that pop up by using every single one of them in a "We don't talk like that at the coffee shop" column.
I appreciate the interest of animal-rights activists in saving the lives of poor, oppressed frogs, so I can understand their advocacy of computer software that lets students do virtual dissections. But this is going a little far:
Marilyn Grindley, a member of the Ohio County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said dissecting animals "desensitizes kids. It tells them that we do not have any respect for any animal." She wants to end the practice.
I don't think any weather prediction more than a few days out should be taken seriously. So this is no great shock:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Tropical Storm Risk Consortium in London and, most recently, the Coastal Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at North Carolina State University in Raleigh are now among teams attempting to handicap the storm season weeks or months ahead.
How to tell if an issue merits a lot more discussion: When liberals start saying "the debate is over":
OK, fine. On your way, could you pick up Alec Baldwin, who was supposed to move to France if George Bush were elected?
SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie "Bernard and Doris," is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, "It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people."
You know what distinguishes Fort Bliss from other military posts? If you said it's that soldiers under 21 could drink on base, you would have been right, until now:
Citing too many drunken-driving crashes and arrests and too many fights, the new commanding general has raised the drinking age on base from 18 to 21, bringing 17,000-soldier Fort Bliss into line with what has been the law in the rest of Texas since 1986.
Yes, I know the thing about celebrity deaths coming in threes is one of those silly myths, but the myth does provide a way to think about things. For example, we've just had the death of Dick Martin, followed closely by the death of Harvey Korman. Which funny person do we put on the Death Watch? And can the world these days really stand to lose any more funny people? From Mel:
"A world without Harvey Korman - it's a more serious world," Brooks said in an AP interview.
Be careful whom you go off on -- anybody is liable to be carrying a recorder these days:
The parents of a New Albany kindergarten student who secretly recorded his teacher making what the parents say were abusive comments told their story to a national TV audience today.
I was the editor of my high school yearbook, so naturally a story like this catches my eye:
Queen Creek Unified School District officials are reviewing policies and guidelines regarding student publications after several parents complained about the high school yearbook earlier this month.
