Guess Indiana isn't the only place that can't quite get a handle on daylight-saving time:
Daylight saving time arrives a little earlier — March 11 — and stays a little later — Nov. 4 — this year. And it's bringing a problem along with it that could affect everything from stock trades to airline schedules to your BlackBerry.
Two different TV stations are saying Hoosiers are confused about what a "snow emergency" is, so I guess it must be so. I tend to think we're smarter than that, but just in case: If they say it's an emergency, and you have a choice, STAY HOME, OK? Glad to help.
Supply and demand interact; that's basic economics. But let a natural disaster strike, causing demand for certain things to go up, which tends to push up the price, and they call it price gouging and bring in the attorney general's profit police.
Indianapolis blog Advance Indiana manages to equate the banning of same-sex marriage both with the Klan's early stranglehold on Indiana politics and the Nazis ugly march through the middle of the 20th century. It reserves its special scorn for David Long:
Well, here we go:
Smoking in passenger vehicles with children under age 13 would be against state law under legislation endorsed by an Indiana House Committee on Tuesday.
The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill 8-1 and sent it to the full, Democrat-controlled House, where its author, Democratic Rep. Charlie Brown of Gary, predicted it would pass. He said he was not sure how it would fare in the Republican-ruled Senate.
Via Doug at Masson's Blog: Indiana Senate Bill 94 would make changes to a lot of terms dealing with disabilities.
If the mayor of San Francisco can apologize for having an affair, a TV star can apologize for anti-gay slurs and a presidential candidate can apologize for foot-in-mouth disease, can one of Indiana's own do less?
See if you can follow the reasoning on this one. A proposal in the General Assembly to create drug-free zones, by making it a Class A felony to sell illegal drugs within 1,000 feet of a church, would be unfair to city-dwelling users of illegal drugs. When added to current drug-free-zone laws -- protecting such places as schools, parks and housing developments, this would create such overlapping zones that someone could be guilty of a Class A felony just for possessing illegal drugs in a private residence.
Let's see. We'll create a tax-friendly environment that will lure companies to Indiana, which will create jobs for Hoosiers, and everybody will live happily ever after. But Pat Bauer is having none of that:
I saw this headline on a South Bend Tribune editorial -- "Arming Indiana crime victims" -- and thought: What? Free-gun handouts by the state? Turns out they're talking about something else:
