Man, oh, man -- probably not the best way to get rid of Gary's reputation as a crime-plagued city:
The police chief in the violence-plagued city of Gary assaulted two people he suspected of burglarizing his home and had them and two others wrongfully locked up for three days, prosecutors said today.
Home schooling could provide a case study in how different states take different approaches to the same issue (laboratories of democracy and all that). Indiana, for example, has almost no requirements for home schooling. The students are supposed to get "the equivalent" of a public education, for example, but equivalency is not defined, and there are no curriculum requirements. No tests are mandated, either.
California has decided to go a different way:
The drug war started getting absurd when officials started banning "paraphernalia" -- not just drugs but anything like bongs and papers that could be used for drugs. It would be akin to banning glasses because you can drink booze out of them. Now, Chicago wants to take another silly step:
Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee.
About a 50-50 chance:
NEW YORK (CBS) ?
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a Democratic "dream ticket" with Sen. Barack Obama.
Speaking on "The Early Show" on CBS, Clinton said "that may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket."
Who is on top, indeed. If Clinton wins, she needs him on the ticket. He wins, he needs anybody but her.
A guy can dream, can't he?
The Upper East Side mansion seized from former Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione has been sold by his creditors for a very sexy price.
According to city transfer records, the 27-room townhouse on East 67th Street, between Fifth and Madison avenues, has just sold for $49 million to Wall Street financier Philip Falcone.
The current installment of one of my favorite hard-hitting journalistic endeavors, the Indianapolis Star's "What's in your fridge?"
Most (99.9 percent) of the drivel that we give out so breathlessly here in the blogosphere will disappear in the memory hole where it deserves to be. True genius must stand the test of time. It was way back in the 1930s when Will Rogers said, "I'm not a member of any organized political party -- I'm a Democrat."
If it's true that the longer the correction, the worse the original story, here's your entree to what must be the worst story of the year. At the end of the correction is this:
All these errors tended to give the story an anti-Summerlin tone, which was not intended and which the Sun regrets.
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Bush Derangement Syndrome on steroids:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.
It's probably too much to ask for that the court just tell the FCC it's got no business being in the "f******* expletive" business (that was "fleeting, you dirty-minded pervert, you):
If you see my car parked at a motel tonight, don't bother getting the camera and hoping for something scandalous. I'll be seeking nothing more adventurous than a little warmth.
Keith John Sampson is in his 50s, a janitor at IUPUI and also 10 credit hours away from gettting a degree there. While on break one day, he was reading a book about an early incident in Indiana involving the KKK. An employee complained that Sampson was "racially harassing" her by reading the book in front of her. You can guess what happens next.
OK, kids, into the bedroom and under the covers. We'll lock the door and stand guard. Ring the bell when you're ready for food or need to go the bathroom:
The Jeffersonville City Council is wrestling with how to handle public comments. Beginning of the meeting or the end? On agenda items only or nonagenda items as well? During the discussion of the public discussion, the mayor had his say:
Tom Galligan spoke about the vulnerability he feels sitting in the mayor's chair during the Jeffersonville City Council's regular public-comment periods.
Yes, it's a shame Fort Wayne is losing the Lincoln Museum. The world-class operation has been here 80 years and its loss will make the city less distinctive in one more way. But it's a private museum that can locate any place it chooses. If the directors really are motivated by wanting the items seen by more people, moving makes sense. This sentence was intriguing:
I'm glad I've become more sedate as I've gotten older and no longer feel the need to go into dangerous places looking for excitement:
Two battling Boston moms face the next round in court after police say they turned on each other at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.
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Think I'll go to Canberra and rob me a bank:
ARCHITECT-DESIGNED self-contained cottages with roomy kitchens, lounge rooms complete with flat-screen LCD televisions and mountain views through floor to ceiling windows.
Welcome to the Alexander Maconochie Centre, the ACT's first prison, where the cost of a room is your liberty and more.
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Take your choice -- scientific ignorance:
Lots of people are talking about John McCain's lunatic pronouncement that "there's strong evidence" for the proposition that thimerosol, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, causes autism. This is nonsense on stilts.
