Those of us who don't want to see space exploration slow down have had to take President Obama's word on some things, such as a commitment to Mars without returning to the moon first and the proposal to privatize shuttle-like missions. But at least we know the private sector can handle the assignment:
Woo hoo. Republican Rep. Fred Upton co-sponsored the legislation leading to the ban of the incandescent light bulb. Now he says he has had a change of heart:
Juxtaposition of the week. From Time magazine:
The rise of China as an economic and political juggernaut has become a familiar refrain, but now there's another area in which the Chinese are suddenly emerging as a world power: education.
That exciting discovery by NASA I posted about earlier, the one annoucing discovery of a microbe that could use arsenic instead of phosphorus to build the backbone of its DNA? Maybe it was just crappy research:
As soon Redfield started to read the paper, she was shocked. "I was outraged at how bad the science was," she told me.
First we had people doing duets with dead singers, like Natalie singing with Nat and Hank Jr. singing with Hank Sr. Now comes George Lucas to really push the idea of getting all we can out of the talented dearly departed:
I think I've said here a few times that all compromise (arrived at by wonderful bipartisan politicians) has done is make government grow. Here's the evidence from President Obama himself, though that certainly wasn't what he intended:
Anthony Martin of central Indiana is being charged with bigamy. He was married to Courtney for two years. Then he married Krystal, whose squad leader he was in the National Guard. Martin and Krystal were deployed to Iraq, and when they got back, he disappeared for a month.
Krystal filed for divorce.
Wife one, Courtney, discovered wife two when she found the divorce papers in the mail box.
Opinions are all over the map on the Obama-Republican compromise. I paid particular attention to conservative thought, which is anything but unanimous. The Club for Growth is against it. Jim DeMint expresed mixed feelings then came out against it. National Review is cautiously optimistic. I think Paul Ryan has it about right:
This week's winner of the "Do as I say, not as I do" award is Ted Turner, savior of Earth and father of five:
Old joke: What message are people with face tattoos trying to send? Answer: Don't ever hire me for a real job.
New version: I'm a racist idiot and probably guilty of everything I'm charged with, and then some:
They're Tasing everybody in Chicago, Bro:
The tax-cut and unemployment-payment compromise will add to the already monstrous federal debt. But no problem, the government can just print more money. Well, maybe it can:
A printing problem with the new high-tech $100 bills has forced government printers to shut down production - and to quarantine more than one billion of the notes.
I haven't seen as many articles comparing Pearl Harbor and 9/11 this year as I expected. Next year for sure, with the 70th anniversary of one and the 10th of the other. We like round-numb
Turn out the lights, the party's over:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Don Meredith, one of the most recognizable figures of the early Dallas Cowboys and an original member of ABC's "Monday Night Football" broadcast team, died Sunday. He was 72.
The grim We're Using Up The Earth And Nobody Cares But Us crowd is setting its sights on board games. This is the 75th anniversary of Monopoly, which provides an opportunity to remind us that, though we have the "bleakest economic climate since the 1930s" when the game was introduced, it's really even worse than that:
Fort Wayne is often late in getting to the party when it comes to trends and movements, but this time we're in the vanguard as one of the few cities getting a heads-up about Posted in: Current Affairs, Hoosier lore, Our town, Religion
There are creeps and there are CREEPS. Cops caught a bigun:
A Fort Wayne man who allegedly installed a security camera under the sink basin of a bathroom vanity
The city of Fort Wayne isn't the only government unit in the state that carelessly spends money on consultations of dubious value:
Some in Washington Township are questioning why the school district is spending tens of thousands of dollars a year on two public relations firms.
A jury in Wabash found Scott Pattison guilty of sffocating his wife Lisa with a barbell on their weight bench. Now his lawyer, in a real stretch, is seeking to have a mistrial declared:
According to the motion, while the jury was deliberating they ran different tests on the weight bench. At one point two female jurors, who presumably weighed less that Lisa, got on the bench to see if there was any way not to get from underneath.
Criminal genius of the week:
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — Police say an Indiana man was arrested after mistakenly sending text messages to a prosecutor about drugs he was trying to sell.
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They read "Roxy twenties fifteen" and "Hey buddy just wonderin if you needed any fortys."
