So it's true that no good deed goes unpunished:
He accidentally reversed his motorised two-wheel Segway scooter over a cliff - to MOVE out of the way of a walker.
The kind-hearted tycoon then plunged 50ft to his death.
A writer at The Nation Review's blog, The Corner, takes up the cause of congressional meddling in TV volume and lumps it in with the congressional ban of the incandescent light bulb and the federal government banning all-caps street signs and even dictating the font:
Kmart, which heavily promoted its layaway options during the last two holiday seasons, is expanding the program in anticipation of another tough Christmas.
OK, gun-toters and other Second Amendment fans. How much of a one-issue voter are you? The NRA is endorsing Democrat Brad Ellsworth over Republican Dan Coats in the U.S. Senate race:
Coats voted for the Brady Bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases. He also voted in one instance in favor of a temporary semi-automatic weapons ban, though he ultimately voted against its final passage after the ban returned from conference committee.
Must be true what they say about gambling -- the house always wins. At least you couldn't disprove it by the Indiana Supreme Court:
A pair of Indiana Supreme Court decisions issued Thursday bolstered the right of Indiana casinos to ban card counters and rejected a problem gambler's effort to recover $125,000 in losses.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The owners of a cookie shop that has operated for more than two decades at the Indianapolis City Market could face eviction.
But it's the reason behind that possible eviction that is raising provocative questions that pit the rights and moral beliefs of a business owner against the obligation of the city to do all it can to prevent discrimination and encourage tolerance.
Congress adjourned early without voting on the Bush tax cuts or even approving a budget, but never say they skip the really important stuff:
Judging fiscal conservatism, the libertarians at Cato Institute grade the current governors. Four get A's -- Time Pawlenty, Bobby Jendal, Mark Sanford and Joe Manchin. Mitch Daniels gets a B:
Rats. This would happen during the week when my starship is in the shop:
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet of similar size to Earth in orbit around a nearby star.
A team of planet hunters spotted the alien world circling a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, 20 light years away.
If the Indiana Civil Rights Commission insists it has jurisdiction over something that's completely prviate. just because it involves "education," you know nothing good is going to come of it:
A dispute over the menu at a Fishers-based Catholic home-schooling group's masquerade ball did not amount to discrimination, attorneys from the Thomas More Society told an Indiana Civil Rights Commission administrative law judge Wednesday.
You know what nostalgia is -- fond memories of things you hated or were indifferent about at the time. Today's passing-into-history moment is devoted to that staple of boot camp, bayonet training. I know why they're getting rid of it -- the last U.S. bayonet charge was in 1951 and, as the story notes, new soldiers "already need to learn far more skills than the 10 weeks of basic training allows." And I remember the training as both irritating and challenging.
One of those ideas that sound simple and obvious -- after somebody thinks of it:
Standing in the vacant kitchen of the former Azar's former corporate headquarters, the executive director of Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana conjures images of mounds of sweet corn and bushels of green beans.
This does not compute:
The budget remains flat from last year, but the portion of it supported through property taxes will increase from $132.5 million to $134.9 million because the city will request the maximum levy at 2.9 percent, said Roller.
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The city has an estimated cash reserve balance of $25 million, twice the 7 percent to 10 percent of the tax-supported revenue amount that is required.
This has potential. The restaurant at Fort Wayne International Airport is going to get a makeover:
Did I fall asleep in the Twilight Zone and wake up in 1996? Bill Clinton is currently the most popular politician in America, and Kiss isn't being considered for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, again.
I've expressed some ambivalence about laws forbidding texting while driving. My anti-nannystatism inclines me to be against them, but my knowledge that those texters could hit me makes me put texting in the same category as driving drunk (laws against which even staunch libertarians tend to support). Here's an argument against such laws:
It seems like just yesterday (oh, wait, it was) when I did a post about the Pew study showing how little people know about their own religions, noting that people who come late to something usually know more about it than those born to it. Well, oops. This is President Obama:
Atheists and agnostics know more about various religions than many who actually follow those religions, a Pew study has found, and that has set the world of skeptics on fire:
Companies, rather than their workers, are usually the ones saying to a community, "Screw you, we're hitting the road":
Turned down by union workers Monday, Illinois businessman Justin Norman won't come back with a sweeter bid to buy GM's huge Indianapolis metal plant.
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Indiana is bucking the nationwide trend of fewer children being taken away from families because of abuse or neglect charges -- only five states, all with much larger child populations -- removed more children in 2009 than Indiana.
