Politics and other nightmares

Well, OK, I guess:

I ask you, ladies, is this nerdy looking guy the type you get all hot over? Maybe Kissinger was right, and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, because he surely does seem to do OK in the romance department.

As a good free-market capitalist, I support the right of businesses to advertise however they want to, wherever they can. But I do get a little tired of being constantly prodded to Buy this! and Try that! and Save! Save! Save! and Check out this bargain! every minute of every day no matter where I go or what I do.

2008, candidate Barack Obama on health care reform:

"We'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so the people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who is making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies."

This won't add any clarity to the often incoherent abortion debate:

Danielle Brookshire Steinberger already had her infant's safety seat in the car when she was hit head-on by another vehicle on New Year's Eve 2007.

If baby Drew had died in his car seat instead of in his mother's womb, his death could have been a crime.

Sometimes it seems every educator in Indiana is salivating over the possibility of getting some of the $250 million Indiana might get from President Obama's "Race to the Top" program. But they're showing a modicum of common sense in Northwest Allen County Schools, where the board signed a "memorandum of understanding" saying the district is only possibly interested in receiving some of the funds.

Yesterday, I chided a professor who used the "between a rock and a hard place" phrase for creating a false dichotomy. But that difficult either/or choice does actually present itself from time to time, for example in the case of Derrick Dausman:

A mentally disabled man facing child molestation charges has been released from an Indiana state hospital to a group home even though the state says he is too dangerous to live free in the community.

Here's what seems to be an unprecedented move:

Muncie City Council delivered a happy New Year's gift for the roughly 360 people in the Brewington Woods neighborhood and a section of the Halteman Village addition.

The good news for Hoosiers about the General Assembly session starting tomorrow is that legislators should be able to do only minimal harm, since they can't really afford to do much this year. Of course they'll keep trying:

Indiana lawmakers know they have no new money to spend during the legislative session opening Tuesday.

What's that you say? You don't think this country is as sharply divided as all the pundits and politicians say?