With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton apparently running about even here, Indiana is suddenly getting a lot of nationwide attention. If you do a Google blog search of "indiana, obama, clinton," you'll get more than 16,000 hits. A side benefit is that people outside the state might actually learn something about us:
In Lake County, Obama was a household name well before the presidential race.
So we're fat and dumb? Make that fat, dumb and happy:
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Forget New York, Los Angeles, or even Miami, Indianapolis is the most sexually satisfied city in the United States, according to a new report.
The Indiana city is followed by Columbus, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the report by Men's Health Magazine that ranked the sexual satisfaction of people in 100 cities.
You undecided Democrats who have been waiting to see which way John Mellencamp goes, too bad:
Bob Merlis, Mellencamp's publicist, said the rocker hasn't said who he'll vote for but sees Democrats as the greatest hope for change.
"Neither candidate is as liberal as he would prefer, but he's happy to contribute what he can," Merlis said Tuesday.
Me, I'm still waiting to hear if Chuck Norris is going to get over Huckabee losing and finally come out for McCain.
I thought we'd had some embarrassing political candidates in this part of the state from time to time, but none of them hold a candle to this guy. "Worst Campaign Idea Ever?" asks the headline over the story that pretty much answers, "Oh, yes, it certainly was."
Another myth that won't die down:
Tuesday, April 22, is the national observance of Equal Pay Day, the day when individuals throughout the country recognize the wage gap between working women and men. Equal Pay Day is held annually in April to signify the point into a year that a woman must work to earn what a man made the previous year.
This should go over real well among Indiana Republicans:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels elicited several hushed gasps and raised eyebrows late last week as he lectured a conservative crowd that it was "time to let Ronald Reagan go."
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Welcome to the digital age:
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Police in Indiana say a group of middle school girls who videotaped the beating of a 12-year-old schoolmate and put it on the Internet may have been inspired by a similar video in Florida.
No charges have been filed yet in the Indiana case, which involves girls aged 12 to 14.
It was bad enough when hideous fashion fads slowly made their way to Indiana.
The Evansville Courier & Press has an article comparing the renovation of the Memorial Coliseum and the possible renovation of Roberts Stadium in Evansville:
All morning long, people have been telling me this woke them up:
Dishes rattled and so did Fort Wayne residents' nerves this morning as the U.S. Geologic Survey reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 - later downgraded to 5.2 - struck the Midwest around 5:37 a.m. today.
