Well, OK, I write reminders on my calendar of upcoming meetings, and sometimes I leave a sticky note on the door about some errand I need to do that day so I will see it on the way out of the house. But this guy takes the cake for bad memory:
Police say they found hundreds of pictures of child pornography in a southeast Fort Wayne home. The home owner, 72-year old Lewis Jack Philpot is now facing 5 felony charges of possessing child pornography.
I've decided I want a federal government job. I want a nice title, a big office, a hefty salary and an army of bureaucratic fussbudgets I can send around the country to make people's lives miserable. I shall lobby to become the Tire Pressure Minister:
What's the opposite of "Speaksoftly and carry a big stick"?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told Russia on Monday to end its military action in Georgia and said it appeared Moscow was trying to overthrow the elected government of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
I told my cats last week to start behaving or face serious consequences. Can cats laugh? Putin can.
Give her some credit -- at least she didn't let the 3-year-old drive:
Lafayette woman faces up to six years and six months in prison for being under the influence when she let her 5-year-old son drive her around.
Holly L. Schnobrich, 25, pleaded guilty Monday in Tippecanoe Circuit Court to two counts of neglect of a dependent, a Class D felony, and one count of public intoxication, a Class B misdemeanor.
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I haven't been in a lot of coffeehouses, so I'll have to take take Dave Beckham's word for it they're hotbets of liberal radicalism. Even if it is true, it's certainly because of the kind of people who go to coffeehouses, not because a bunch of sneaky progressives came up with brilliant business plans. So I don't think Beckham's solution is going to fuffill any great unmet need in Crown Point:
Never mind the tawdry story of yet another politician caught in yet another lie about yet another affair, and continuing to lie even as he prostrates himself over the first lie (It's not my baby! That's just sleazy tabloid trash -- how could possibly believe it?) The scary thing is the type of woman a major politician would find sexy:
Guess the battle has been lost:
Embaressed by yor spelling? Never you mind.
Fed up with his students' complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept "variant spellings" as legitimate.
Speaking of the Olympics, Indiana was home for a while to the first African American ever to win an Olympic gold medal.
How to know your economy is really, really in trouble:
Shopping malls are in for a tough year as a sour economy closes a record number of stores, possibly bringing dramatic changes to some Indianapolis retail centers.
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Many traditional malls have had to reinvent themselves, but it's not just older, enclosed centers that are suffering from the recent rash of store closings. Open-air lifestyle center Clay Terrace in Carmel also has been hit.
Mitch Daniels and Jill Long Thompson seem pleased with, or at least accepting of, the three debates that have been scheduled. Andy Horning is downright ecstatic:
My English teacher Mrs. Lee would have been appalled at the sheer illogic of a sentence such as this:
Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday reveal that nearly one out of 10 counties are now classified as "majority-minority," meaning the county's population includes over 50 percent minority residents.
IMHO, this is WOMBAT, 'K? OMGYG2BK:
"Da vp iz?"
In text messaging lingo, that translates to "The vice president is?"
Four years ago, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) announced his vice presidential nominee, then Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), at a morning rally in Pittsburgh.
How times change.
On the roundtable part of ABC's "This Week" yesterday, three of the four panelists named Evan Bayh when asked to name a vice presidential cdandidate for Barack Obama. Not everyone is thrilled at such as prospect:
Anyone else. Being the governor of Indiana, a do-nothing senator from Indiana and the father of adorable twins does not qualify Bayh to be vice president.
The fact that we're the only state that still does a certain thing does not make that thing the wrong thing to do. But we should at least be open to the possibility that the other 49 states have it right:
This will be the sickest thing you read about the presidential campaign today:
They're not exactly rooting for him, but prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if Barack Obama becomes the first black president.
Welcome to the next war:
Georgia's president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.
When they say "Not in my back yard" in Plainfield, they really do mean not in my back yard:
Residents of one of Plainfield's oldest neighborhoods want better streets and other improvements from the town, but they're not so hot on a proposed park.
They say the proposed park carved from open space in several backyards of the Duffy-Gibbs neighborhood would end the isolation they have enjoyed.
A panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated the requirement that Hoosiers who want to buy wine by phone or over the Internet have to first make face-to-face contact with the winery, and isn't it wonderful we're saving the childfren?
Three dates have been set for the gubernatorial debates:
The debates, which will be televised live, will be Sept. 16 at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville; Sept. 23 at the Jasper Arts Center in Jasper; and Oct. 14 at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington.
