How often have we said, "If only there were more than 24 hours in a day, we could get it all done"? Well, we're not lawyers:
An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for overbilling local courts for her representation of poor clients, submitting bills for more than 24 hours a day on three different occasions.
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Ah, Chicago. A suburban man arrested for choking his wife was given the customary one phone call from jail:
Janusz Owca used it to call his wife -- and threaten to kill her, Cook County sheriff's police said.
The 32-year-old Maine Township man is facing charges of aggravated domestic battery and felony intimidation.
The Indianapolis Star's Matt Tully thinks the "far right" should leave Sen. Richard Lugar alone. He'll undoubtedly face a primary challenge from the tea party types who think "he's been in D.C. too long and worked with Democrats too often." But Lugar will survive the challenge for a lot of reasons, the chief one being that "Hoosiers are smarter than that."
Couldn't he at least be required to serve his probation locked in his basement?
At the urging of the son Eric Urbano locked in a basement with a cup in which to urinate, a judge accepted Urbano's plea deal and sentenced him to no jail time Thursday.
A little late, but the right move:
The Indianapolis public safety director identified at least one police policy Thursday that is likely to change in response to the fatal crash involving officer David Bisard.
I'm no particular fan of Alan Simpson, but his description of Social Security -- a "milk cow with 310 million tits" -- had enough truth in it to be the kind of provocation that should create meaningful if heated discussion. No, that doesn't mean kicking old folks penniless into the street; but the system is an illustration of the entitlement mentality we've drifted into. And the expression is just a variation on the "government teat" phrase that's been around forever.
People seem so happy that the baseball stadium and team are doing so well that a lot of them are ignoring what hasn't been done at Harrison Square:
Should Fort Wayne continue working as a cooperative partner with the developer that hasn't built the condominiums it promised downtown, or should it turn to a tougher approach? That's a question Fort Wayne City Councilman John Shoaff, D-at large, wants the council to confront.
This made me laugh, until I realized who the joke was on:
Could you loan me ten dollars but just give me five? That way you'll owe me five, I'll owe you five, and we'll be even.”
Trish Shrum is mad at Indianapolis Public School No. 82 officials for lettting her 5-year-old daughter, Trish, "escape" from them in an incident that could be in a silent Keystone Cops movie:
When Mercedes Shrum, 5, found out she had a substitute teacher, she told school officials that she wanted to go home.
The school took her temperature, and because she wasn't ill, administrators got her settled back into the classroom, but not for long.
Insane lawsuit of the day:
A Northlake woman sued McDonald's in Cook County Circuit Court today claiming that her daughter was seriously burned in 2009 when a hot chocolate she ordered from the fast-food giant spilled and seriously burned her leg.
That corner around which we will have convergence -- and we can do everything with one smallish device -- is getting closer and closer. We can now call people directly on their phones from our Gmail accounts. And Dell has a combination netbook and smartphone; it's generally getting savaged by critics, but, hey, it's a start.
A typically demented libertarian uses the egg-recall care as an excuse for a predictable and tiresome op-ed in The New York Times about the spread of government power:
Get ready for the most productive and decent political condition known to man: sweet gridlock. You get nothing. And, after what you've been through these past few years, you deserve it.
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There is no greater check on power in Washington than two strong political parties.
I envy this young man for knowing what he wants so early in life:
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A 3-year-old boy is back at home after he was found wandering in a strip club parking lot.
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Police say it appears the family was asleep but the child woke up, unlocked the doors and went outside. Investigators say the family lives across from the club and did in fact have the doors locked.
Dick Stoner's north store has been robbed twice in two years, so he's decided to do something about it.
So, 18 percent of Americans think Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a Pew Research Center poll, 34 percent believe he's Christian, and 43 percent say they don't know what his religion is. On the other hand:
A bunch of Indiana stuff you may have missed and be interested in. Or not.
Along with shouting out "Hi!" to your friend Jack, another good thing never to say at an airport -- "I have a bomb in my belly":
Police at Indianapolis International Airport arrested a man Monday who claimed to have a bomb inside his stomach.
