With all the important news today about Afghanistan and health care and Tiger Woods, here's a little story you might not have noticed:
PARIS - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush has himself become the target of a shoe thrower.
While speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was nearly hit in the face by a shoe thrown by what appeared to be another Iraqi man.
Even in today's "everybody wants to be famous just for being famous" culture, it's not sufficient to say White House crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi are reality-show wannabes desperate to get on TV.
Gary Mayor Rudy Clay, announcing the appointment of Gary Carter as new police chief -- the sixth in four years -- gets today's "Huh?" award:
Clay says he didn't demote former Chief Reginald Harris last week because of the crime wave, but that he expected Carter to end it.
Splendid doubletalk
Oh, thank goodness. We haven't had a task force appointed for anything in days and days, and I was beginning to worry that city and county officials had lost their taste for killing time achieving consensus with collaboration and compromise:
I think this may be a tough case to prove:
For the first time, Allen County is holding parents legally accountable in educating their children, but one Fort Wayne Community Schools board member says it needs to be more than just a one-time effort.
I wouldn't necessarily say this is the most cynical flip-flop in political history, but it is certainly breathtakingly brazen:
Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, pondering a future in politics, is trying to wipe away his image as an enemy of Latino immigrants by positioning himself as a champion of that fast-growing ethnic bloc.
When I watched my aunt suffering with Alzheimer's, I thought that must be the worst condition to be in while still alive. To still know what and who you once were but feeling your mind slipping away and realizing you can't do a damn thing about it -- could anything be more horrible?
Yeah, that's right, kick us when we're down:
Jeffersonville City Councilman Mike Smith is hoping to reduce the number of newspaper and advertisement boxes lining downtown sidewalks.
There's a bit of advice seasoned gamblers give to novices: Never take more to a casino than you can afford to lose. If you go overboard, you won't get any sympathy from the casino, and you may have little choice but to declare bankruptcy. Guess the same thing applies to casinos, which should never invest more than they can afford to lose if the economy turns sour and the competition heats up:
A truly shocking discovery in Muncie:
MUNCIE -- It seemed like a good idea at the time: City and county officials in 2007 split the $70,000 cost of a study that analyzed local consumers' spending habits with a goal of attracting retailers and restaurants to the area.
Thanks to turnover in the offices of the mayor and Delaware County commissioners, however, the study was dropped in desk drawers and forgotten.
