The title of this piece -- "The right way to slack off at work" -- makes it seem like a primer on how to be a bad employee. But it's really about how to cope with being in a downsized company in which you might be doing the work previously done by several employees:
Don't forget the second gubernator debate tonight. If don't want to watch it on WFWA, you can take your laptop and watch it anywhere. Several outlets, including the Indianapolis Star, will be live-streaming the debate. And it will available for 30 days at the Indiana Debate Commission's Web site. Apparently only about 150 people watched the first debate online. If you're near a TV, that still is a better experience than watching Web video.
I worry that if Barack Obama is elected, he will recklessy risk billions and billions of taxpayer dollars. Oh, wait:
I worry that if Barack Obama is elected, he will recklessy risk billions and billions of taxpayer dollars. Oh, wait:
The mayor of Huntington needs a time out (be sure to watch the video of his tirade):
In the lawsuit filed by attorney Bill Hogg, HCAAN is stating that not all interested parties were allowed to speak at the public hearing August 25th to discuss the annexation and that some people were even afraid to speak.
HCAAN says therefore, the common council doesn't have the legal right or authority to adopt or vote on the ordinance because all of the steps required by law were not taken.
PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- Blue Obama for President signs began to sprout in Plainfield lawns Monday night even before the Town Council voted not to enforce time limits on political signs before the Nov. 4 election.
Faced with a federal lawsuit claiming the town's ordinance on political signs is a violation of free speech, the council passed a 90-day moratorium on enforcement of the controversial part of the ordinance.
I guess I'm not as jaded as I thought I was. This still seems like a staggering amount to me:
The City-County Council tonight passed a $1.1 billion budget for 2009 by a vote of 17-12.
Further evidence that I might have been spirited away to a different universe in my sleep:
Last week one of our colleagues from the San Francisco Bay area
brought to our attention billboards being erected in the area as
part of Kaiser Permanente's Thrive ad campaign. These billboards
boldly state, "Beat Obesity With A Stick". The background which was
very difficult to see, especially from a distance, turned out to be
sticks of celery.Many of us in the size acceptance community have been physically and
I guess we know for sure now that the presidential candidates are moving away from their bases and going for the Great American Middle:
Proposed bans on same-sex marriage are on the ballot in three important states this fall, rousing passions on both sides, yet neither John McCain nor Barack Obama seem eager to push the issue high on their campaign agendas.
Jill Long Thompson thinks she has a winning issue, so add her to the list of people who just won't let the time zone and DST issues die:
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Noblesville tries to ram through a tax by calling it a "trash fee," but outrage from taxpayers might hold if off at least for a while:
The fee would add $3.82 to wastewater bills beginning this November and about $7.60 in 2010. That would raise about $750,000-$800,000 in 2009 and about double in 2010, said Clerk-Treasurer Janet Jaros.
The headline on this story -- "Retailers Split Over Sunday Alcohol Sales" is a little misleading, and the first paragraph is more so:
Opposition to a push for Indiana to repeal its long-standing ban on Sunday alcohol sales may come from an unexpected source, a newspaper reported: liquor stores.
I like this analogy (at the Huffington Post, of all places) explaining why, given the electoral college reality, it is both misleading and damaging to go on and on about the "popular vote."
I don't know if it means my good taste or my bad taste has been confirmed, but the rest of America agreed with me on four of the top five on "America's Got Talent." The only one I picked who didn't make the cut was Jessica Price; instead, Donald Braswell went on to the finals, and since he was my sixth choice, I guess I can't complain too much. And here is the clip of what Nuttin But Stringz played Tuesday night that knocked me out. The clip I put up earlier was from a previous broadcast.
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I don't know if it means my good taste or my bad taste has been confirmed, but the rest of America agreed with me on four of the top five on "America's Got Talent." The only one I picked who didn't make the cut was Jessica Price; instead, Donald Braswell went on to the finals, and since he was my sixth choice, I guess I can't complain too much. And here is the clip of what Nuttin But Stringz played Tuesday night that knocked me out. The clip I put up earlier was from a previous broadcast.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMHPA5-yIcc]
And I thought we had hit the economic bottom when it was reported that a drug dealer was adding a gasoline surcharge to the price of his dope:
The Dow Jones industrial average rebounded a bit Tuesday, but the true index for measuring hard times - the High End Girlfriend Index - was off the charts.
Move it along, old-timers, move it along:
Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock.
A woman lost $125,000 at Caesar's on the Ohio River and wrote bad checks to cover the losses. When the casino sued her, she countersued, saying the casino knew she had a compulsive gambling disorder and that by inviting her to the riverboard and paying for her hotel, it "unfairly enticed her to gamble."
But Caesar's attorney Gene Price said that the casino staff intervenes when a customer appears to have a problem and participates in a state-mandated voluntary exclusion list on which Kephart did not appear.
What do you think -- will they be fair to McCain?
CBS' "60 Minutes" will devote its full broadcast Sunday to profiles of John McCain and Barack Obama with fresh interviews, hoping to set the stage for the general election campaign's first presidential debate on Sept. 26.
