Dang, sorry I missed this. Bars here have such tame stuff:
The liquor license for a Canton business will be suspended for 60 days because two women wrestled topless at a recent "midget wrestling event."
The penalty is substantial, Mayor Kevin Meade said after the city liquor commission voted unanimously Wednesday to suspend the license for Outskirts Bar and Grill at 725 W. Locust St.
Reason magazine faults Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and, especially, Sarah Palin, for continuing to favor criminal penalties for something they get to treat as a youthful indiscretion:
This is the best news I've heard in a while:
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn't equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can't agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way.
Of course, it's sort of like a kid who's just tracked mud all through your house agreeing to step outside.
Score one for common sense:
Plainfield will no longer enforce an ordinance banning political campaign yard signs more than 30 days before Election Day, the town's attorney said today.
What's red and blue and doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up?
Sen. Barack Obama holds a tenuous lead over Sen. John McCain in Indiana, with one in four likely voters saying they could change their mind on who to support for president, according to a new Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll.
Obama's three-point lead in the poll, 47 percent to 44 percent, reinforces Indiana's status as a battleground in the race for the White House.
I've been sticking with "America's Got Talent," even though it slowly transformed from a variety show to just another version of "American Idol" -- nine of the top 10 finishers are singers. I watched last night, and it was pretty easy for me to choose my favorites for the five finalists. So long, Sinatra impersonator and Elvis impersonator; I'll watch you on TV, but pay to see you in Vegas? Don't think so. Goodbye to the 4-year-old -- what was she doing there in the first place? Catch you later, Osmond Family wannabes. Donald Braswell almost makes the cut for me.
The big-city Chicago Tribune does a tough, fearless crime story:
A Skokie man told police a woman with a shopping cart stole more than 100 peaches from a tree in his backyard.
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The neighbor said the woman left after he yelled at her.
Today's bachelor-cooking quiz: If you've already put the ear of corn in the boiling water before you discover that you're out of butter, how do you save the meal?
Answer: Butter-flavored Pam cooking spray -- just a hint. It gave the corn a light, buttery taste and gave the salt something to cling to.
I mean, it would have given the corn that taste and the salt something to cling to, had I actually been stupid enough to get in that predicament.
Today's bachelor-cooking quiz: If you've already put the ear of corn in the boiling water before you discover that you're out of butter, how do you save the meal?
Answer: Butter-flavored Pam cooking spray -- just a hint. It gave the corn a light, buttery taste and gave the salt something to cling to.
I mean, it would have given the corn that taste and the salt something to cling to, had I actually been stupid enough to get myself in that predicament.
Baby boomers, whiners till the end:
America's baby boomers are in a collective funk. Members of the large generation born from 1946 to 1964 are more downbeat about their lives than are adults who are younger or older, according to a new Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey.
"The media this year are really in the tank for liberals."
"That, sir, is a boldfaced lie."
Sorry, that's the first think I thought of when I read this:
Yesterday Jr. Illinois Senator Obama told a bold-faced lie on the stimulus package. Not only did he not have a role in formulating the legislation, he didn't even bother showing up to vote on it.
Wow, now I really know the cost of gasoline has become a serious problem:
PORTAGE -- Gas prices seem to affect even drug dealers, according to Porter County Courthouse records.
A Hammond man now facing two counts of dealing cocaine was charging an extra $25 to deliver about 7 grams of the drug to Portage in June.
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OK, libertarians; get ready to beat me up.
I've written frequently, both here and on the editorial page, about the need to give third-party candidates their share of exposure during political campaigns. It's both fair to them and beneficial to the voters.
A monster and a moron:
A Wayne County man has admitted that he videotaped himself having sex with a girl younger than 1 year old.
Richard A. Florack, 55, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to a felony of knowingly producing child pornography for making the tape from Dec. 1, 2001, to Jan. 31, 2002.
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It's political season again, when another set of Indiana officials get to display either their complete ignorance of or complete indifference to the First Amendment:
A Plainfield man wanting to show his support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama filed suit today over an ordinance banning campaign yard signs more than 30 days before an election.
It's like they say about drinks for an alcoholic: One is too many, 84 aren't enough:
Police in northern Nigeria have arrested a Muslim preacher who claims 86 wives and 107 children, charging him with breaking Islamic laws governing marriage.
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And the Final Jeopardy answer is: "The Baby Boomers got older":
Violent crime in the United States fell slightly last year, reversing the upward swing of the previous two years, according to statistics released by the FBI yesterday.
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We've started interviewing the politicians for our fall-election endorsement interviews, so blogging will be a little light and/or spotty for the next few weeks. I know, I know, try to contain your grief.
Memo to the McCain camp -- lighten up:
By now, I suspect most of you have seen the opening skit from "Saturday Night Live," which featured a joint press conference hosted by Sarah Palin (played perfectly by Tina Fey) and Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler). If you missed it, and it was pretty hilarious, NBC has posted the whole thing.
The scary thing is that it doesn't seem that outrageous:
WATERLOO, Ind. - A northeast Indiana gas station wanted to scare customers away after it ran out of gas, so it posted a price of $5.99 a gallon for unleaded regular.
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Employee Piper Withley says they put the high price up as a deterrent, hoping to avoid having people waste their time stopping at the station, only to find that they were out of gas.
