This story asks the question "Has Reality TV Hit Rock Bottom?" and the answer is obvious:
Maybe you thought reality TV hit the lowest of the low when "Fear Factor" contestants devoured cockroaches, or when gold diggers paraded their wares in hopes of marrying a millionaire, or when Tila Tequila got a second shot at "love" with 10 guys and 10 girls.
Those shows look like "Masterpiece Theater" compared to what's coming.
Another one of those silly lists compiled by people with too much time on their hands -- 14 songs you should never play in a bar:
There's nothing worse than having a perfectly good drinking session ruined by a song that either doesn't belong in a bar, has been crammed down your ears too many times, or just plain sucks.
Comcast Corporation and the Big Ten Network announced today that they have reached a long-term multimedia agreement for Comcast to carry Big Ten Network programming across television, broadband and video-on-demand in time for the 2008 college football season.
Happy birthday to my favorite Hoosier:
Stick some candles in the lasagna; it's Garfield's 30th birthday!
Former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith at National Review Online:
When we failed to find WMD stockpiles [in Iraq], there was a stunning shift in the President's rhetoric from discussing the threats the Saddam regime had posed to discussing only the promotion of democracy. I think there were some terrible consequences that flowed from that shift in rhetoric.
Omigod, does this mean that, no matter how careful we are, how many precautions we take, how many risks we try to sue away, we are all, in the end, going to die anyway? Say it ain't so:
Well, this isn't exactly a shock:
The bad boys get more girls. You always suspected it was true and now a psychological study backs it up.
Get sick, get doctor. How hard is that?
GLADSTONE, Ore. - Authorities say a teenager from a faith-healing family died from an illness that could have been easily treated, just a few months after a toddler cousin of his died in a case that has led to criminal charges.
Look, I don't CARE, OK?
It is hardly a secret that when it comes to offshore drilling, Sen. John McCain was against the idea before he was for it.
So it's a flip-flop -- or maybe he's rethinking his position based on new evidence, like, oh, $4+-a-gallon gas. Who cares what he thought last year if he's right now? Drill, drill, drill.
And I don't care about THIS, either:
The News-Sentinel's Reggie Hayes, writing about the possible name change for the Fort Wayne Wizards baseball team, brings up only to dismiss rather flippantly a worthy suggestion:
Don't let 'em get your goat. Oops, too late:
Fortville » The Town Council has given a local couple 15 days to get rid of two goats they keep as pets in their backyard.
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"I just believe liberty and freedom are no longer part of life in Fortville if the police can come and take away pets not prohibited by law," Sarah Brown said. "If there's no law, where do they get the authority?"
Stumped at the café? Go for a mocha.
According to new research, the tasty beverage provides a double-whammy of health benefits: chocolate may slow cancer growth, and java could help you live longer.
I discovered a Starbucks mocha ice cream bar at the market the other day. Awesome. Still waiting for that research on the health benefits of fried food to come in.
Nothing like a little reality to make people start facing reality:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Charlie Crist has dropped his long-standing support for the federal government's moratorium on offshore oil drilling and endorsed Sen. John McCain's proposal to let states decide.
Two people are seeking the Fort Wayne Community Schools Board seat being vacated by Carol Coen, and last night, the board interviewed them at a public meeting:
Donald Schaab, an at-large board member from 1999-2002, and John Peirce, a driving force in the district's bid last summer to make $500 million in building renovations, interviewed Tuesday for the District 2 post. Coen, who is vacating her seat next week after 16 years, no longer lives in the district she serves.
Looked funny and smelled bad before the explanations, looks funny and smells bad after the explanations:
Fort Wayne Controller Pat Roller came to Tuesday night's City Council meeting to explain a $285,000 contract the city quietly signed with a company co-founded by former Mayor Graham Richard.
Never bring a pretend bomb to a gunfight:
An attempted bank robbery in Canton played out like a scene from a movie Monday when a man who police say claimed to have a bomb was stopped by a customer armed with a pistol.
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Fawzi, who spent six years in the Lebanese army, took matters into his own hands.
The State Board of Accounts, the Indiana Supreme Court and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles all want to see a copy of Hammond's red-light-camera ordinance, and they're all concerned about the same provision:
Tickets will be issued through the mail by the private company operating the system after a review by police. By ordinance, fines of $100 will be assessed and treated like parking tickets unless contested, when they become moving violations.
Good lord -- I can't leave those people in Michigan City alone for five minutes:
Allegations that a white firefighter held a noose over a black co-worker should be taken seriously, even if the action was a joke, the Michigan City mayor said Tuesday.
"Whether it was a prank or not, it's stupid and there's no room for it,'' Mayor Chuck Oberlie said.
Criminal genius of the week:
A Terre Haute man accused of snatching $17 out of the hands of a young lemonade stand operator on Monday faced a judge Tuesday on allegations of felony robbery.
Steve Tryon, 18, told police his friends put him up to taking the money from the 11-year-old girl, whose stand was at Deming and Center streets. The 11-year-old and a 12-year-old girl were selling lemonade there.
