All about me

They're telling me they included an automatic rerouter so clicking on the old links and booksmarks should bring you right here. Let me know if that ain't so.

Later this morning, my newspaper colleagues will be debuting a redesigned website, which will include a new platform for this blog. If you come here through news-sentinel.com, you should still be able to click in as always. If you've got me bookmarked, you might have to change that, although I think they're going to try to come up with an automatic rerouter. Stay tuned.

Yeah, well, I know newspaper endorsements are less important today, insofar as they ever really did have much of an impact, but I wouldn't like to think we're the kiss of death. From an endorsement Jan. 15 in The State, the largest newspaper in South Carolina, extolling the virtues of Jon Huntsman:

Looks like conservatism is still dominant and the liberal camp is still shrinking:

Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives.

Happy Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobes!

Actually, there is a specific word meaning "morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th" -- paraskevidekatriaphobia:

Interesting move:

Purdue University will begin a shift to a year-round, trimester-based academic calendar this summer.

The move announced Wednesday by Purdue President France Cordova will break the academic year into three 13-week trimesters with a larger lineup of summer courses. Cordova said it will allow students to potentially complete a degree in three years.

Why is it that, after a divorce, women won't get in another relationship unless they "fall madly in love with someone again," because they cherish their alone time, but men rush to get into another relationship as soon as possible because most of them "seem unable to live alone for longer than, say, at the outside, three months"?  Is it really all about the nest?

As I may have mentioned here, or at least alluded to, I've been on a lifelong mission to create the perfect chili dog. I can't say I'm quite there yet, but thanks to a Christmas gift from my sister, I'm closing in on it.

Once in a while, I stumble across doing the right thing. Apparently, studies are showing that red wine has the most associated health benefits of any alcohol:

Impressive:

Gov. Mitch Daniels is placing his early endorsement of a company that makes giant, mobile LED screens on his "oops list."

Daniels stood with Mayor Greg Ballard in October -- two weeks before Ballard's re-election -- to tout the company, Litebox, whose founder, Bob Yanagihara, had promised to employ 1,100 Hoosiers.