Hoosier lore

In most careers, if you are obsessed with the job, spend too much time at the office and keep taking work home with you, these days you are likely to be told to get some perspective, put some balance in your life, as in, "You wouldn't put 'Should have spent more time at the office' on your tombstone. would you?" But if you are an NFL quarterback, you are praised for your drive and focus:

It's such a pain having to round up a priest or minister to perform the marriage ceremony, isn't it? What if you could just snag the nearest member of state government? Here's the full text of an Associated Press story that has moved over the wire:

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The governor, lieutenant governor and members of the Indiana General Assembly could officially perform marriages under a bill endorsed Tuesday by a Senate panel.

OK, that's it. Gov. Mitch Daniels stayed too long in Washington and is clearly no longer a real Hoosier. For their food Super Bowl bet, the governor of Illinois is offering up, among other things, a true Chicago delicacy -- deep-dish pizza. But nowhere in Daniels' package is one of Indiana's true claims to food fame -- the wondrous breaded tenderloin.

What a scary thought for Indiana: Have the Colts carried football past basketball for popularity? But the story is really about pro sports, so it's not really a fair question. If high school and college basketball ever fall victim to pro football in Indiana, we will know life as we know it has come to and end.

What's this? Felons are able to get around gun laws? Dang. Guess the gun-control folks are going to have to rethink things:

With Indianapolis in the Super Bowl, you knew there had to be the obligatory "Indiana is just a bunch of backward hicks" playground taunt. Here it is, from a Chicago Sun-Times columnist who apparently made someone laugh back in high school and has never gotten over it:

John Mellencamp is quite the sour man:

In rock singer John Mellencamp's latest musical epistle from the heartland, Americans are vengeful, unforgiving, ignorant of other cultures and led by a president he describes as a "rodeo clown."

According to a new poll, 62 percent of Hoosiers would support a $1 increase in the cigarette tax if the money were used for health initiatives (of course, the poll was commissioned by a coalition of anti-smoking groups, so there might be a little "getting the results they wanted to get" going on here). This news must have stunned Gov.

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A lot of people are asking this question: Should state pay for students' textbooks? Some say no, for this reason: