Who in the world could be against the Golden Rule?
A resolution that established the golden rule among other procedures at Muncie City Council meetings passed Monday by a 5-4 vote.
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Who in the world could be against the Golden Rule?
A resolution that established the golden rule among other procedures at Muncie City Council meetings passed Monday by a 5-4 vote.
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What a strangely constructed story this is. Roughly the bottom two-thirds hints around at the truth about ethanol, which is that it is a "solution" that will make things far worse:
First Amendment tomfoolery:
AUSTIN, Texas - A $5-per-customer fee on strip club patrons dubbed the "pole tax" has been declared unconstitutional.
A state district judge ruled that clubs can't collect the fee. The charge went into effect in January and was expected to raise about $44 million for sexual assault prevention programs and health care for the uninsured.
Those of you who are of a certain age (near mine) and who grew up here may remember being underage but able to drive over to Ohio for the exotic experience of drinking 3.2 beer. You could drink a six-pack and never feel a buzz, but we were young and drunk on the idea of getting drunk, so we "felt" the effects of that Near Beer. Kids of later generations probably did the same thing with wine coolers, the wusses.
Another piece of cherished conventional wisdom shot down:
Congratulations, Hoosier lawmakers. South Carolina is now less backward than Indiana:
For the first time in Columbia, stores were able to sell beer and wine on Sundays. Some people didn't waste anytime getting in line to buy.
"You might want to sit back, watch a game or something and drink a nice cold one. Sales will be picking up," said Dennis Best.
Of all the ostentatious consumers out there -- "Look at the car I'm driving and the clothes I'm wearing, you pitiful, no-taste slobs!" -- wine snobs are the most annoying. So make a note of this to use as ammunition the test time some pretentious, cheese-nibbling, Cabernet-sipping buffoon starts prattling on:
The Indianapolis Star's Matthew Tully likes Jill Long Thompson's chances:
At the start, Schellinger got support from the likes of Mayor Bart Peterson (before he was tossed from office) and U.S. Rep. Julia Carson (before she died, of course). Indiana Democratic Party honchos claimed neutrality, but behind the scenes they backed Schellinger. Some even went to work for him.
Welcome to our city -- the school superintendent sucks!
Billboards can be helpful to visitors to a community, but Mayor Chuck Oberlie is sure a billboard on U.S. 20, between Skip's Cascade Mountain and Swan Lake Memorial Gardens, is not so helpful.
I just had to go through O'Hare on my recent trip to Texas, and all I can is "Amen!"
Chicago's O'Hare International, the most frequented airport for passengers leaving Indianapolis International Airport, is also the nation's most stressful. That's according to a survey conducted by U.S. News and World Report, which placed O'Hare at the top of its "Airport Misery Index."
It should come as no great shock that people are starting to talk about the breakup of the GOP-libertarian coalition:
It should come as no great shock that people are starting to talk about the breakup of the GOP-libertarian coalition:
Much has been written in the past couple of days about Charlton Heston's acting career and politics. This pretty much sums up both of them:
Writing in The New York Times nearly 30 years afterward, when the film was re-released for a brief run, Vincent Canby called it “a gaudy, grandiloquent Hollywood classic” and suggested there was more than a touch of “the rugged American frontiersman of myth” in Mr. Heston's Moses.
The law of unintended consequences:
Enacting city smoking bans appears to increase drunken driving, a study of arrests conducted by Wisconsin researchers asserts.
A national study to be released by the Journal of Public Economics found an increase of fatal accidents involving alcohol after communities prohibited smoking, compared to arrests in communities without a ban.
This may help some of you in deciding on a president. Clinton and MCain oppose outlawing concealed guns. Not Obama:
I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama said. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
As Nancy Nall might say, I have "well-documented" issues with Jane Fonda. But she was smart enough to leave Ted Turner, which should count for something:
Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.
So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned him the nickname "Mouth of the South."
The city seems to be doing a lot of feel-good projects. Nearly $650,000 is being spent to rehabilitate a block of Barr Street downtown, mostly with state money supplemented by local funds. Now, we're getting on Oprah's bandwagon:
In the spirit of giving back and giving big, the City of Fort Wayne will match donations dollar for dollar to expand local multiuse trails as part of the Oprah's Big Give Fort Wayne Trails initiative.
This is the best news I've heard in a while:
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago.
On the other hand:
ABC's Jake Tapper is mad because he feels lied to by the Barack Obama campaign. He thought he smelled smoke on the candidate at a time when Obama had supposedly quit cigarettes. Tapper asked the campaign if Obama had fallen off the nicotine wagon and was assured that was not the case. But then the candidate later admitted to Chris Matthews that he had slipped a time or two:
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OK, I've seen Jim Schellinger's and Jill Long Thomson's ads, and they are both too folksy and charming for words. I am heartened to learn that both candidates come from such "humble" beginnings. Jill grew up on the family farm and was the first in her family to go to college. Jim "worked nights" to put himself through college.
