The Indianapolis Star offers advice on mushroom hunting for those who want to avoid achieving loam temperature after ingesting their favorite fungi:
The best tip I can give anybody is to go with an experienced mushroom hunter, a person you trust to know the difference between a poisonous false morel and an edible morel.
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Abide by this mushroom hunter code: When in doubt, throw them out.
An important message from Hoosier AG Today:
Legislation making its was through the Indiana General Assembly would add oversight and regulations to your manure manage process.
In other words, License Will Soon Be Needed to Spread Manure. Unless, of course, you're a member of the General Assembly.
If you haven't had enough of Sarah Palin, she's got a trip to Indiana scheduled, for a Right to Life dinner in Evansville on April 16 and a breakfast with a Down syndrome support group the following day. The travel will be paid for by SarahPAC, her political action committee, the formation of which has added to speculation about her plans to seek higher office. Not so, she says:
Palin said she created the PAC in order to pay for travel to events that could be considered political.
Have you heard about these two Purdue guys?
Each week, Brett Westcott, a student in the College of Engineering from Plainfield, Ill., and Cameron Brown, a student in the Krannert School of Management from Toledo, Ohio, shout out compliments to everyone who walks by from 12:30-2 p.m. Westcott and Brown, both sophomores, say they do it just for fun and enjoy the positive reaction they get from passersby.
So, Citilink is getting $4 million from the $787 billion stimulus package for 14 new vehicles, including seven hybrids. That will be "greener," and there could be some fuel savings, which is fine. But the money can't be used to increase servive, which means no new hiring:
"We're looking at this as a one-time windfall. We've got to spend it or lose it,” (General Manager Ken) Housden said.
Well. not exactly, because:
One of the first things I learned as a new Big Brothers/Big Sisters board member is that Indiana law requires that anyone who suspects a case of child abuse or neglect must report it. And the person doing the reporting is immune from all civil and criminal liability if the report is made in good faith. (Here is the "duty to report" law, and here are the "failure to report" provisions.
Yeah, those damn, rotten 14-month-olds just don't show respect the way they did in our day, by God:
Police say an 18-year-old Indianapolis man severely beat his girlfriend's 14-month-old daughter because the girl failed to show respect.
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Police Sgt. Paul Thompson says Chism is accused of beating the girl with a belt for more than an hour for being disrespectful and not eating her food.
Paging Humbert Humbert:
A 20-year-old Wisconsin man infatuated with a 14-year-old Terre Haute girl allegedly admitted to police that he knew that his sexual contact with the eighth-grader was a crime.
Alex Edwards, 20, admitted he had sexual relations with the girl last August. He told reporters before his court hearing Tuesday he believed the relationship “was the same as like a 26-year-old and a 20-year-old.”
I know some people think the Indiana Supreme Court let Judges Scheibenberger and Felts off too easy, giving the former only a three-day suspension for his outburst in a courtroom and the latter a reprimand for his DUI. This seems like a better case for outrage, though:
A Marion County judge who faced removal from the bench after his office mishandled an order setting aside a man's rape conviction instead will serve a 60-day suspension without pay.
It's no big deal one way or the other if the unnamed lesbian high school student in Lebanon wins her suit against the school district and is allowed to wear a tuxedo to the prom. Schools have been given more leeway in recent years to regulate all sorts of student behavior, so it would be no great surprise if she lost. On the other hand, who cares what she wears? Are we going to make Secretary of State Hillary Clinton give up her pants suits and start wearing dresses to diplomatic functions?
