"It's tough to be a saint" department:
He is the rock legend dubbed 'Saint Bono' for his long-running campaign against global poverty.
But when Bono's band U2 perform at Glastonbury later this month, protesters are planning to accuse them of avoiding taxes which could have helped exactly the sort of people the singer cares about so dearly.
This wuss makes Jimmy Carter seem absolutely macho for surviving the killer rabbit attack:
A Speedway man was recovering this morning from a kitten bite to his thumb.
Craig Wyatt, 24, called police Thursday afternoon after a kitten in a woodpile nipped him on the right thumb, according to a Speedway police report.
The New York Times editorial page has weighed in on the Obama administration's rejection of the Indiana ban on giving Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics, calling it a "mean-spirited and dangerous" law:
Negotiations between the Fort Wayne Education Association and Fort Wayne Community Schools have hit a snag. The main dispute seems to be over whether to immediately start using new state rules disallowing bargaining over working conditions or to do a new contract before June 30 that would do without those rules for the next two years. This is the eye-popping sentence:
Donation boxes are set up in downtown Indianapolis to help the homeless and control panhandling.
Eight boxes have been installed since 2008, to allow people to put money in boxes instead of giving to panhandlers. But panhandlers are still hanging around the donation boxes, asking for handouts.
"They don't put it in the box," said one panhandler downtown. "Here? 40-50 bucks. Interstate? $300-400 dollars."
This sounds a lot like "Leth them eat cake," doesn't it?
President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
On the other hand, maybe this is an attempt to further the administration's goal of helping the little people. The more of us there are, the easier we will be to spot.
Hell to get old, ain't it, Luther?
Although he was one of the early pioneers of Miami Beach's Memorial Day hip hop extravaganza, even Luther Campbell says he no longer makes his way to South Beach during that weekend because it's become too rowdy.
No tears here for Jack Kevorkian:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
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Aha, an explanation perhaps for the bizarre behavior of Anthony Weiner:
It's do-or-die time for some Hoosier schools:
Eighteen Indiana schools, including two in Fort Wayne, have a lot riding on statewide test scores that will be released this summer. If the schools fail again — marking a sixth consecutive year of being on academic probation — the state could turn them over to private companies charged with spurring improvement.
Hey, we were watching the race, man! We don't care about no stupid news:
A South Bend television station is defending its decision to cut away from the finish of the Indianapolis 500 for a severe weather report.
WBND news director Aaron Ramey tells the South Bend Tribune that tornado warnings had been issued for the area on Sunday, and "public safety is a priority" for the ABC affiliate.
Has the global warming climate change hysteria peaked?
The earth's climate is always changing, sometimes dramatically. During the medieval warming of a thousand years ago, temperatures were much higher than they are now; during the Little Ice Age six centuries later they were much lower.
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Are there really as many dumb Hoosiers as this letter-to-the-editor writer seems to think?
With tornado season on us, it's time to look a the terminology of our warning system. The terms "tornado warning" and "tornado watch" are confusing.
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When sirens go off and folks are seeking shelter is no time to ponder these confusing terms.
If you find yourself in trouble, and public safety agencies have to rescue you, well, that's what they're there for. But what if your peril is the result of acting like a damn fool?
Those who trigger such responses should be held to account if they knowingly create the circumstances from which they must be rescued.
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What if President Obama wrote an advice column?
Q Dear President Obama, My white shirt has chewing gum stuck to it. Any suggestions?
Vanessa Phelps, Stevenage, Herts.
A Let this be known. Where there is chewing gum, there shall always be a problem.
In my younger years, I regarded sleep as a necessary evil, nature's way of thwarting my desire to cram as many activities into a 24-hour day as possible.
Again, likewise:
A judge has thrown out drunken driving counts against an Indianapolis cop who crashed into motorcyclists and killed him, essentially on a technicality, leaving him to face only one felony count of reckless homicide:
The ruling dealt a blow to Prosecutor Terry Curry's efforts to show that Bisard was driving drunk when his police cruiser crashed into three motorcyclist Aug. 6 on the Northeastside.
This isn't too scary:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun field testing new technology designed to identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act.
It's definitely a good day when a liberal columnist takes The New York Times to task for being so surprised that violent crime is now at nearly a 40-year low despite the recession followed by a very weak recovery:. Says Richard Cohen:
