Another pervert bites the dust:
A former swim coach who admitted using hidden cameras to videotape girls in their locker rooms was sentenced today to more than 33 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.
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Hindson hid videocameras in the locker rooms at Kokomo High School and Memorial Gym and secretly taped team members while they undressed over a 10-year period, court records said.
Randy Balko grew up in a "particularly conservative" part of Indiana, but he's a senior editor for Reason magazine, so dismiss his observation as a libertarian rant if you want to. But he makes a lot of sense to me:
A small group of students at Ball State University says students should have the right to carry concealed weapons on campus to protect themselves in case of an attack.
The headline on columnist Bob Kravitz's take on the Colt's game says it all: "A game so putrid even the unflappable coach got angry":
And notable because these kinds of games just don't happen to the Colts. This team has won 12 games or more five seasons in a row. Now they have three losses. And it's hard to escape the nagging feeling that there's something dramatically wrong with this group that can't or won't be fixed in due time.
One reason Barack Obama might be able to turn Indiana Democratic this year:
But if Obama wins the state, more than anything it will be due to the best voter-contact operation Indiana has ever seen. Even Murray Clark, the Indiana Republican chairman, says with grudging admiration in his voice, "Obama's done these things right. That's how he nearly beat Hillary in the primary."
Almost all political ads are misleading, so we tend to discount them over the long haul. But some are more irritating than others to those of a different political pesuasion, and this one is starting to bug the hell out of me. It's the one featuring Barney Smith, that "ordinary American" from Grant County who wowed the Democratic convention with his "Smith Barney" line.
A letter-to-the-editor writer in South Bend speaks for countless Hoosiers:
Every day in the news there is information about more cuts that have to be made in local government budgets. Then we hear what tax the mayor of South Bend thinks should be increased to accommodate the government spending habits. Usually, he convinces the Mishawaka Common Council and the St. Joseph County Council to agree and there they go, dipping into our pockets again.
I'll let the juxtaposition be the only commentary on these two stories. First, one from Alabama:
Five veterinary clinics in eastern Alabama received 32 surprises in the last week: healthy cats in containers and carriers, along with notes from an anonymous donor saying she is dying from cancer.
This is one of those stories I read and wonder what the jury heard that we aren't being told about, because I keep saying "that can't be right" after every paragraph. A woman shot her husband in the head while he slept. She claimed she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of the physical and emotional abuse by her husband against her and her children. But she offered no police or medical records to support those claims -- it was just her saying it.
I'd like to than ya'll heauh in Hoosierland for being such an important part of the history of the soft drink I grew up with in Kentucky:
