Hoosier lore

Is it "breaking faith with taxpayers" when a city administration makes a promise, then gets ousted by voters in favor of a new administration that then decides it can't keep the promise?

Oh, brother:

A pizza chain is no longer calling its large pizza, breadsticks and soda special the Big Ten Bargain after lawyers from the Big Ten Conference complained.

Bloomington-based Pizza Express is changing the name of the combo to the Big Bargain.

A distinction without a difference:

Despite many using the words interchangeably, mopeds and scooters are not the same thing, and do not have the same set of laws applied to them.

We Hoosiers seem to be a bloodthirsty lot. Saw this story from the Muncie newspaper  (via the Indianapolis Star) -- a homeowner had confronted a burglar and held him at gunpoint until police arrived and hauled him off. Seemed like a routine story, so I wondered why there were so many comments. Many of them were in this vein:

Romance goes awry in southern Indiana:

Events did not go as planned for a Linton man and a woman from Vincennes who agreed to have sex with him in exchange for vodka, cigarettes and $10 cash.

Corey Breneman, 36 of Linton, faces a charge of patronizing a prostitute. And 40-year-old Eydan Brown of Vincennes is charged with prostitution.

Nobody can beat Republicans for being clueless about how some of the actions lookand sound:

I've talked to Mark Souder a lot. He's at his most attractive as a politician when he gets caught up in some complicated and controversial issue like illegal immigration or Bill Clinton's impeachment. He has a policy wonk's fascination with details, and he really does consider all the sides and angles, which is why he was one of the few congressmen to think Clinton was guilty on some of his impeached behaviors but not on others.

Don't think so:

Several reform groups will call for the repeal of property taxes when a legislative committee holds a hearing later this month.

The interim study committee will hear testimony on the issue at the Statehouse on September 10th.

Indiana Property Tax Repeal Alliance chairman John Price says property tax restructuring passed last year will have only a cosmetic approach.

Symbolic patriotism taken just a tad too far for me:

FISHERS, Ind. — Fishers High School students Wednesday will apologize for singing a faster version of the national anthem than the Hamilton Southeastern choir at Friday's football game between the schools.

I admire a student journalist who tries to punch up the lede on a routine story:

The first week of school introduced several students to a law enforcement agency devoted to preventing their underage debauchery.

Indiana State Excise Police Cpl. Brian Lang said excise officers have issued about 25 citations since move-in weekend. The majority of them were issued to students, he said.