This has been going on for a couple of weeks now, and it's still breathtaking in its audacity. Some of us have been arguing that the country was headed this way, but I confess I never dreamed it would be in one $700 billion fell swoop:
This has been going on for a couple of weeks now, and it's still breathtaking in its audacity. Some of us have been arguing that the country was headed this way, but I confess I never dreamed it would be in one $700 billion fell swoop:
Milton Friedman has been dead for two years, but he still makes more sense of the current economic crisis than anybody else:
Would Milton have seen the crisis as a setback for capitalism?
Only in the short term.
We baby boomers always knew we'd make a difference in the end:
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.
The other News-Sentinel -- the one in Knoxville, Tenn. -- is conducting an online poll to see if its readers think the paper should endorse a presidential candidate. The results so far are pretty lopsided:
Yes, take a stand. 13% 40 votes
No, we don't need your opinion. 86% 246 votes
I'll let the juxtaposition be the only commentary on these two stories. First, one from Alabama:
Five veterinary clinics in eastern Alabama received 32 surprises in the last week: healthy cats in containers and carriers, along with notes from an anonymous donor saying she is dying from cancer.
This is one of those stories I read and wonder what the jury heard that we aren't being told about, because I keep saying "that can't be right" after every paragraph. A woman shot her husband in the head while he slept. She claimed she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of the physical and emotional abuse by her husband against her and her children. But she offered no police or medical records to support those claims -- it was just her saying it.
The Local Government Efficiency Study Committee is pressuring the city and county to try again on a joing police facility, but nobody is having any of it:
Ft. Wayne Mayor Tom Henry and the three Allen County Commissioners said at the end of September that sharing space for police functions in the City-County Building would be too costly to taxpayers.
I'd like to than ya'll heauh in Hoosierland for being such an important part of the history of the soft drink I grew up with in Kentucky:
"Michelle Obama's message resonates with Fort Wayne crowd," the headline on our story reads. What message? She's just saying the same thing the campaign has been saying for months, in fact, the only thing Democrats always say:
"Isn't it time for a change? Isn't it time for new solutions? Don't we deserve leaders who get it?"
I notice so many of the blogs are conducting polls nowadays, and I see that my blogging service has just enabled me do do them, too. You apparently can't be taken seriously in today's highly interactive culture unless you regularly take the pulse of your readers. How's your pulse? Take this poll, please!
[polldaddy poll=1003358]
Lawsuit dismissed because the defendant could not be served:
You can't sue God if you can't serve the papers on him, a Douglas County District Court judge has ruled in Omaha.
Judge Marlon Polk threw out Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers' lawsuit against the Almighty, saying there was no evidence that the defendant had been served. What's more, Polk found "there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant."
I'm reminded of Woody Allen for some reason:
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- "Sexploration at IU," a weeklong series of events that offer Indiana University students information about sexuality related issues in a fun, interactive and positive way, begins on the IU Bloomington campus on Monday (Oct. 20). The event is sponsored by the IU Health Center's Health & Wellness Department.
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This should not be a shock to anybody except the politicians who still think we are all out here desperately seeking "comprehensive" reform:
A new statewide poll found overwhelming support for stricter penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
The WISH-TV Indiana Poll released Wednesday night found 71 percent favored such penalties, while 19 percent opposed them and 10 percent were unsure.
The steady flow of bad budget news out of City Hall continued Tuesday, as Mayor Richard Daley announced he will shut down city services except for police and fire for three days during the holidays.
This is just sad:
THE art of cooking a humble jacket potato is lost on almost half of the under-30s, a survey has found.
A similar number have no idea how to prepare roast potatoes to accompany a Sunday joint or simple dishes such as shepherd's pie, fishcakes, and leek and potato soup.
The potato is a nearly perfect food because it can be fixed so many different ways to accompany so many different kinds of food. These kids today, I tell ya.
Fark is having a "Photoshop McCain and Obama into a movie poster" contest. Here's one of my favorites. You figure out why.
More deer plus greater urban sprawl equals be careful out there:
State Farm Insurance says deer-vehicle collisions in Indiana are up 24 percent from five years ago. That compares with a 15 percent increase over the entire United States.
The "early voting" sites are opening in Gary, East Chicago and Hammond after a back-and-forth court battle, and shame on Lake County Republicans for trying to make it a little tougher on the predominating Democrats in those cities. Sometimes partisanship is called for, and sometimes it isn't. But also shame on the Democrats and their hyperbolic sputtering:
Moderator: What was the most significant setback in your life?
Mitch Daniels: I was arrested when I was young and spent a night in jail. That taught me the value of owning up to your mistakes.
Jill Long: We almost lost the family farm in the 1980s, but we persevered, and that's why Daniels has been a terrible governor.
This is stunningly dunderheaded:
Today, when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama returns to Toledo, The Blade, on its front page, asks Mr. Obama a simple question: Do all Americans who want to work have the right to a job where they live?
John Robinson Block, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, said the answer to that question is important to all Toledoans and to all Americans.
