I thought the "Colmbus was a no-good bastard" movement had sort of died down, but here it is, as strong as ever:
I thought the "Colmbus was a no-good bastard" movement had sort of died down, but here it is, as strong as ever:
Authorities aren't always sympathetic when someone suffers a mental breakdown, so it's heartening to see this compassion from the Marion County Prosecutor's Office:
An Indianapolis man who prompted a seven-hour standoff with police after he wouldn't come out of his downtown apartment will not be charged.
Apparently, Bobby Knight has not rejected out of hand the idea of actually going to Bloomington next month when he is inducted into the Indiana University athletics hall of fame:
"We have the real fake."
"No, no, yours is a fake fake. We have the real fake."
So it goes as both the Heritage Auction Galleries of Texas and the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority of Indiana claim to have the "authentic" pretend gun John Dillinger used to break out of the Crown Point jail. After several paragraphs of claims and counter-claims, the story notes:
Ever see a story about somebody who got arrested for doing something you've felt like doing?
Police say a woman singing karaoke in a Connecticut sports bar was attacked by six other women who didn't like her performance.
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On Tuesday here, I lamented the federal government's blackmail of Indiana over billboard issues. If you think that's too anti-government, you can go to The Journal Gazette's editorial page for the pro-blackmail view:
Demuth said his challenge now is coming up with $2.5 million to update the inventory.
They seem to be having trouble in Indianapolis balancing the humane treatment and public safety parts of their animal control department. Facing accusations of animal cruelty, the animal shelter hired Douglas Rae as the new director, who ended the policy of automatically killing pit bulls and set a goal to cut the euthanization rate from 60 percent to 20 percent.
The Allen County Commissioners don't want a casino in Fort Wayne. But if one does come, they want the entire county to get its say - and, presumably, its cut.
It's a chicken-or-the-egg thing:
In my view, Scalia is half-right. We are indeed devoting more of our “best minds” to law than we ideally should; perhaps more of our merely average minds too. But the high salaries of lawyers suggest that there is a genuine demand out there for all that lawyering. Quite simply, we need a lot of lawyers because we have a lot of laws.
But we have a lot of laws because we have a lot of lawyers invested in keeping the law complex and confusing.
Why isn't there dancing in the streets over this news?
An expected milder winter, along with lower fuel costs, should cut average residential heating expenditures by 8 percent from last year, the Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in its annual winter outlook.
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear an interesting case that tests the limits on exceptions to the Constitution's unreasonable search & seizure provisions. East Chicago police went to the wrong apartment when searching for a suspect and arrested the man in the apartment when they found cocaine there.
Diversity in the news:
PARIS (AP) - A French gay soccer team says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.
Welcome to the future.
Terre Haute is raising money to erect a statue of Max Ehrmann, a lawyer and sometimes poet who died in 1945. He is best known for the poem "Desiderata" (no, it was not found in Old St. Paul's Church, as the myth had it back in the hippie days). We of the flower-child-naif persuasion were fond of quoting a particular passage:
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
A Hoosier college student pretends to be worried about his masculinity,
I'll be honest. I'm insecure about being a vegetarian.
Something I missed while I was on vacation last week:
In 2009, roughly 47% of households, or 71 million, will not owe any federal income tax, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Obviously more income redistribution is called for.
You've heard the old expression "You have to spend money to make money." One public university is taking it a little too literally:
UC Berkeley has agreed to pay a consultant $3 million to help the school find new ways to save money - an agreement that has irritated some faculty members whose pay is being cut this year.
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One governor gets off a lame joke, and another fires back and even lamer response:
The lead sentence or paragraph of a newspaper story tells you -- or should -- what the writer and editors think is the single most important point of the article. Here's The Associated Press on the anaylsis showing that property tax caps in Indiana are going to have a greater impact than expected:
Road Rage poster boy of the week:
The case of a New Castle resident charged with biting off a sizable portion of another man's ear has taken another twist, with the defendant now claiming he was justified in using "allegedly deadly force."
Curtis A. "Alan" Cross, 44, is charged with battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Class C felony carrying a standard four-year prison term, in an April 1 attack on Jeffrey Guffey.
If you don't plan a trip to southern Indiana this fall, you can still check out the foliage by going to the Visit Indiana
