It never, ever ends. Hoosiers really, really don't like change, except when they're trying to undo a change they really, really hate:
A group that wants to move all of Indiana into the Central Time Zone is asking state legislators to reopen the time debate.
I'd be offended by this, except for the fact that he's right:
Never in the history of this country has there been a generation that's cast a longer shadow without really having done anything to earn it than the children of the 60s -- specifically the so-called Woodstock Generation. For the most part, they're thoroughly undeserving of the immortality they've pretentiously bequeathed to themselves.
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Seventy years ago this week the war began that saw millions die. But Pat Buchanan says wasn't the fault of Hitler, who was just a peace-loving guy goaded into war by Poland's stubborness, made possible by a war guarantee from Britain:
So, let's recap. Women in their 20s and 30s have grown up beating the boys in math class, knowing that combat is an option for them, celebrating "Girl Power" and in general watching all traditional male-female roles go out the window.
They seem to have either their music or their history or both mixed up in Lafayette. A bunch of latter-day pseudo-freaks had a music festival:
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Downtown Lafayette was overtaken by hundreds of people in tie-dye and bellbottoms, all celebrating a special Mosey Down Main Street.
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I know what some of you will be thinking when you read about these two artifacts from a bygone era -- what a perfect match!
HAMMOND, Ind. - A box of horse manure and nearly intact copies of the local newspaper have been found in two copper time capsules contained in the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple.
The box of manure had a note saying future generations might not understand its significance as automobiles replaced horses. Har, har, some sense of humor they had way back then.
It's his own damn fault he went so soon -- he should have taken better care of himself:
Allingham, who was the world's oldest man when he died Saturday at 113, attributed his remarkable longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women."
He was the last surviving member of the Royal Air Force and one of only a handful of living WWI veterans. America has only one veteran of the war left. There may have been different Greatest Generation, this one wasn't bad.
Monday will be the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. Of all the remarkable achievements of the 20th century, it's the one most worth celebrating.
This is one of the best pieces I've seen on the chatoic state of journalism -- appropriately titled "Not an upgrade -- an upheval." No one can predict what's going to happen -- as this piece notes -- but the writer does a good job of describing the forces that are in play and so lets us imagine some of the possible contours of change. "The news," he observes, has always been subsidized. Of late it's been by advertising, sports fans and coupon clippers.
