People like this should be drummed out of the scientif community:
(Reuters) - Scientists around the world said on Friday the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos, but the findings would first have to be independently confirmed.
Another case of one thoughtless miscreant spoiling it for everybody else:
HOUSTON — For decades, Texas inmates scheduled to be executed had at least one thing to look forward to: a last meal. Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. ordered two breaded pork chops and three scrambled eggs in 2000. Frank Basil McFarland asked for a heaping portion of lettuce and four celery stalks in 1998. Doyle Skillern ate a sirloin steak in 1985.
From cnn.com Reason Magazine Editor Matt Welch with today's reminder of the inevitability of government spending waste:
Drat. I found a really nice bunker buddy, but now they've stopped dropping the bombs. Dear Abby, should we stay friends or just go our separate ways?
With rising gas prices and a slowing economy, more residents of Indianapolis' Northside suburbs are looking to economize their daily commute to Downtown. The upshot? The area's carpool scene is booming.
Gov. Mitch Daniels' new book has passages bashing a part of the state I'm very familiar with:
But Daniels uses a few pages to take aim at Northwest Indiana, a region that has a decades-long loyalty to the Democratic Party. In one passage, Daniels writes about his futile attempt to make inroads in the region by bringing jobs.
Mitt Romney is working awfully hard to show us that, deep down, he's just a Regular Guy:
Like the stars in Us Weekly, Mitt Romney wants voters to know that he is just like them.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a brand-new euphemism:
The headline on this story is "Vote shows Boehner's lack of control," which is kind of an old-fasioned, horse-race way of reporting Washington politics. There is a new group dynamic now that people who should know better continue to ignore:
House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill.
The result was an embarrassing setback.
Word is that Universal is going to make a third version of "Scarface," which brings up some intersting speculation:
An interesting phenomenon explored: Why have journalists, who spent so much time and energy bashing blogs, been so taken with Twitter?
I find the question especially interesting because Twitter seems to have all the bad aspects of blogging and none of its strengths. Smith offers two reasons why he tweets so much despite being paid to blog: Twitter is faster and it is now the dominant medium of online political “conversation”.
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I don't want to say the Colts are dead this season, but isn't that a vulture waiting to swoop down and tear the flesh from the bones?
The Greenwood police chief is trying to figure out how to get rid of six new fully automatic handguns that he says the department doesn't need and which he refuses to pay for because there's no record of the order and no one can determine why the guns were sent to the department in the first place.
Police Chief Rick McQueary says they're too dangerous to use for officers who must carefully consider every shot.
You know, I think most of us out here in civilian land would also
Remember a few years ago there was a government commission on reducing the paperwork burden that was most notable for producing a gigantic report on the subject, on paper? This is almost as good:
Obama administration officials are talking up open government, transparency and accountability, but are doing it anonymously in apparent contradiction of the goal.
Those who hoped the Indiana Supreme Court would rethink and perhaps soften its recent invalidation of the Castle Doctrine will be disappointed at this:
The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed its earlier ruling in a controversial case involving unlawful police entry.
Sad news for all of us aging, cartoon-loving baby boomers:
A pioneer of local television in Fort Wayne, John Manahan Siemer passed away over the weekend.
Siemer known fondly as “Engineer John” for a generation of baby boomers served the Fort Wayne area as the host of morning cartoon show 'The Cartoon Express."
He was employed at WKJG Channel 33 from 1954- 1971.
Many people have noticed that the normal rules of etiquette don't seem to apply online. The language is rougher, the spirit meaner, the rules for civility a whole lot looser. It appears that this tendency is only going to get stronger in the future:
Speaking of risky changes:
Wendy's went on the hunt for the perfect burger in an operation that started in 2009 called “Project Gold Hamburger” that aimed to look at every single aspect of the burger and work out exactly what chances could lead them to the perfect burger experience.
Yeah, well, what the heck would they call it?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright has announced the appointment of a presidential task force to study the prospect of changing the 166-year-old convention's name.
Wright, who was re-elected to a second one-year term during the SBC annual meeting in Phoenix this past June, said he believes the study will be helpful for two main reasons.
David Brooks has finally seen the light:
Yes, I'm a sap. I believed Obama when he said he wanted to move beyond the stale ideological debates that have paralyzed this country. I always believe that Obama is on the verge of breaking out of the conventional categories and embracing one of the many bipartisan reform packages that are floating around.
So the gun owner was within the law, but people were upset by his actions so he's the problem?
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police and a gun-rights expert say a man who caused a commotion by carrying a holstered handgun on his hip at Evansville's zoo was within his rights under Indiana law, which now largely prohibits local governments from limiting gun possession.
