I first decided to link to this because of the outrageousness of getting arrested for being nude in your own house. This guy was arrested because police "saw him standing naked in the window of his home."
I first decided to link to this because of the outrageousness of getting arrested for being nude in your own house. This guy was arrested because police "saw him standing naked in the window of his home."
We learned a couple of weeks ago that the Fannie and Freddie bailout might cost up to $25 billion. Now, this just in:
Remember, the government's estimate of the cost to taxpayers for the S&L crisis rose from an initial $50 bn to more than $124.6 bn (not inflation adjusted).
In San Francisco, it won't be just the politicians who aren't allowed private lives. Even residents' trash won't be safe there:
Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Omigod, a Zeppelin comeback! Oh, wait:
During the Monica Lewinsky peccadillo, Susan Estrich spent a lot of time arguing that a politician's private life was none of our business ("It wasn't the sex, they argued, but the lying. I never bought that. It was the sex."). Now comes the John Edwards scandal, and she's not so sure. For one thing, there's the fact that he allegedly enlisted a fall guy to take the rap, one who is also married and has a child, a pretty dishonorable thing to do. Then there's the effect this must be having on his wife:
Because of a crime wave, among other reasons, Indianapolis residents panicked and threw out the incumbent mayor and elected political novice Greg Ballard. Now there's been another month of violent crime, and Ballard seems to be panicking. First, he announced a two-day employment fair for ex-offenders and named Colts Coach Tony Dungy to chair the city's ex-offender re-entry efforts. Now, this:
Last week, I did a post about the Indianapolis Star's dreamy-eyed editorial urging the state to redirect public money from roads to mass taransit. Somone from the Department of Transportation has now answered it, doing a much better job of destroying the illogic than I did:
There are a lot of Democratic supporters of Hillary Clinton who are still so upset about their candidate's loss that they can barely contain themselves:
It's sad to see someone once heroic not know when to get off the stage before he ends up a pathetic shell of his former greatness. No, not Brett Favre. This guy:
Given that the "conservative" presidential candidate has Teddy Rossevelt for a political hero and the sitting "conservative" president has outspent LBJ, Reason's Matt Welch is dead on in noting the delusions of the left-of-center analysts who are proclaiming the death of the limited-government idea:
Happy 30th birthday to the Department of Energy. I loved this line:
Prior to 1973, the United States had no coherent energy policy.
Does that mean we do now? Then, we had a number of smaller agencies, often working independently of each other, and our oil demands meant we were hostage to oil imports. Today, we have a federal department with 16,000 employees and a $25 billion budget, and our oil demands make us an evev bigger hostage of oil imports. That's progress for you!
You've got to love subsidized-housing bureaucrats. Every time a project becomes a crime-infested pesthole, one comes along and figures out what went wrong! This time, we'll correct all those mistakes, and we'll have a housing project that really works! Indianapolis Housing Agency chief Bud Myers is the latest one with the brilliant idea, winning the approval of a very unskeptical columnist:
Say it ain't so:
While Indiana may never shed its hard-earned and well-established reputation as a basketball state, those who have watched the evolution of the two sports over decades say football is at least closing the gap between the sports in popularity and prestige.
In 1970, the average American ate about 16.4 pounds of food a week, or 2.3 pounds daily. By 2006, the average intake grew by an additional 1.8 pounds a week.
And the big excitement last week? The possibility of being able to take a pill that will fool your body into thinking it has exercised? Now, where did I put that remote?
Dan Quayle shows a little common sense:
Former vice-president Dan Quayle will not be strutting his way across the dance floor anytime soon — at least not on TV.
Quayle was invited to compete in the ABC series approximately four to six weeks ago, but declined the invitation immediately, Quayle's assistant confirmed to Access Hollywood.
Don't know what they did, but it must have been something bad, because this is surely God's punishment:
The Topeka Fire Department is investigating a small fire today outside of a church whose members protest at soldier's funerals.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports on its Web site that a fence and garage at Westboro Baptist Church became engulfed in flames early today.
Guess they were small sins, though. Fred was probably just cross-dressing or something.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who write about two kinds of people in this world.
Why do we crazy libertarians get all jazzed up over things like Los Angeles imposing a one-year moratorium on the construction of fast-food restaurants? asks Ezra Klein:
The Department of Homeland Security is getting a little overzealous:
My sister lives in Indianapolis and wants to go see this, but the whole idea grosses me out:
The mesh of vessels is part of the first, and more controversial, of two exhibits arriving in Indianapolis that showcase preserved human corpses.
