Until this weekend, I had kept my vow -- announced here a few years ago -- to give up on following IU basketball. I decided to take a look at the Indiana-Kentucky game, though, because it's a long rivalry between two states that are both dear to my heart. Boy, did I pick a good game to come back for, or what? IU's buzzer-beater, 1-point victory over the nation's top-ranked team was as exciting as anythin I've seen in the past couple of years.
But, hey, let's not get carried away:
Being a horse's ass seems to be a reflexive action for Alec Baldwin. Now he's gone and dragged Greyhound into his latest act of airline jerkness:
“There are many now who walk the aisles of an airplane with a whistle around their neck and a clipboard in their hands and they have made flying a Greyhound bus experience.” He then continued that he won't keep his phone on “when the 1950s gym teacher is on duty.”
A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not "a journalist" when she posted nasty comments about a lawyer in a bankruptcy case:
I've been moderating blog comments here with a very light touch. But the interactions have gotten so rough that it's obvious a heavier hand is needed. So starting immediately, there will be new guidelines. (And they are on permanently display under the "Commenting guidelines" heading under "Pages.")
I reserve the right to delete comments or block certain commenters based on a failure to follow these guidelines:
1. Stay on topic.
2. Avoid personal attacks and ad hominem arguments.
3. Keep the foul language to a minimum.
We wouldn't know anything about that here, would we?
If any of you have a chance to attend an event at the Baker Street Station, you should take the opportunity to see a historic Fort Wayne site that's been lovingly restored instead of demolished or neglected into ruin.
Welcome to Black Friday 2011, the new "you can't do anything without making a political statement" milestone. If you decide to stay home just to avoid the mad frenzy, you could also be accused of supporing the "Occupy Black Friday" movement, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street that seeks to shake us out of our materialistic stupor or something ("hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits").
Never mind all that supercommittee budget-reduction nonsense; let's talk about something really important. No, just to stop the myth before it becomes firmly entrenched, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable:
This is not a fight over pizza. It is, instead, a fight about tomato paste. Specifically, it's a fight about how much of the product counts as one serving of vegetables.
Oh, get over it. Life is tough:
As more retailers try to turn Thanksgiving Thursday into Black Friday — some employees are fighting back.
