The first sentence of this story makes you think, "Well, the poor guy obviously isn't comfortable with who he is -- no wonder he drinks."
The male principal of a local elementary school was arrested for suspicion of OWI while wearing a pink dress, wig and high heels, according to reports.
But then we read the second sentence:
Just what we need -- a General Assembly that starts early so it can create more mischief:
The Indiana House and Senate have planned rare December hearings on key legislation
This sound a little Orwellian to anybody besides me?
INDIANAPOLIS - A felon's friends and hobbies could influence how much time he spends behind bars if the Indiana Supreme Court upholds a lower-court ruling.
I like some of the things mentioned by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett that have been done to help the state better compete for a share of the federal Department of Education's $4 billion "Race to the Top" education grant program -- not putting a cap on charter schools, for example, and removing a roadblock that prevented teachers from being judged on student achievement.
DePauw University professor Kevin Howley didn't think much of media coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall -- a "myopic and narcissistic view of history" by a bunch of celebrity reporters "waxing nostalgic" about their own role in history:
A feature in yesterday's Washington Post on how to grow a political party from the ground up focused on Republicans in St. Joseph County, a group more distressed than Democrats in Allen County. When Chris Riley accepted the unpaid job as GOP chairman in 2006, he says it was "maybe the worst job in the world" -- he had a database containing 11 people.
"Binge drinking" is defined as "five or more drinks for a man and four for a woman," which are "consumed at one sitting and with the intention of getting drunk." The bad news is that 48 percent of Hoosier college students surveyed reported binge drinking in a two week period, compared to 40 percent nationally. The good news, sort of, is that drinking is leveling off a bit at Indiana University:
I've made some spectacularly bad decisions in my life, and I've worked for bosses who made some dumb moves the worker bees were expected to just keep quiet about. But now the pressure is off all of us; we no longer have to work so hard at apologizing or forgetting our bum calls, thanks to New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who should be named the Colts MVP for the help he gave them in their 35-34 comeback win last night.
I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and go na-na-na-na until you're done talking, 'cause I just don't want to hear it. That seems to be the attitude of some at Purdue University about library prof. Bert Chapman's provocative blog post on "the economic arguments against homosexuality."
Shame on the residents of Fishers for voting to spend more money on education, complicating things for everbody else in the state. So says the Richmond Palladium-Item:
Officials in Fishers say the referendum approval will spare them having to cut at least 60 teachers in the faces of property tax caps and a worsening economy's slowdown of tax revenues.
