Robert Spencer, the truck driver in the Taylor crash, has been given four years in prison, but that's not what he'll serve:
A judge sentenced him to eight years total but suspended 4 of them, which would be served on probation. A prosecutor says with time already served including time for good behavior, he will be eligible for release in about a year.
I don't know. One year for five lives. On the other hand, his crime was falling asleep at the wheel. What do you think?
Since Republicans have George Bush to drag them down, it's only fair that Democrats have their own burden to level the playing field:
One way to avoid troubles with a union is to not have employees, the strategy FedEx is using to compete with UPS. Naturally, the union will fight back, as the Teamsters are doing. The case is being heard in South Bend, and a loss would be bad news for FedEx:
I link to this mostly because it has a headline you will not see every day: "Pork industry supports Purdue's efforts to improve Indiana air quality." Of course, large pork operations do contribute to the air's condition, though we might not like to think about it:
Hey, smokers, give up the filthy weed, and you might win the state's $2,500 prize:
In order to enter the contest, you must be 18 or older and pledge to stop using tobacco between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15.
All Quit 2 Win entries must be received by Sept. 5.
The winner will be drawn at random and tested to make sure they are tobacco-free.
One of the downsides of this job is that I have to pay attention to excrutiatingly boring accounts of dull government bureaucrats policing their fussy rules, as in this story about hapless Jasper County, which committed the unforgiveable sin of not getting its paperwork in on time:
Hey, you. Read this. No, no, it's OK, really. No one's watching, and I won't tell. Take your laptop to the corner if that will help:
The next time you're invited to a party but afraid to go, try approaching this: shyness may affect up to 40 percent of the population, but it doesn't have to be a life sentence.
OK, this one freaks me out a little:
COVINGTON, Ind.
Steven Malanga, senior editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, says the lease of public assets, as in Go. Daniels' toll-road deal, are a way to get much needed infrastructure capital to help avoid more tragedies such as the Minneapolis bridge collapse:
The Smoking Gun drops in on Indianapolis:
Perhaps the next time Shawn Ayers and Nicholas Declouette decide to get, um, frisky, they will not do it in the middle of the day. In a '88 Oldsmobile. Parked in front of an Indianapolis day care center. Ayers, 31, and Declouette, 43, were arrested on public indecency charges when the day care center's operator called cops after spotting the couple getting busy in public.
Gotta love that PDA.
