"The Vagina Monologues" continues to cause problems despite having been around for so long. The Unite States Bishops Committee on Doctrine moved a seminar from Notre Dame in protest of performances of the play on campus:
"The Vagina Monologues" continues to cause problems despite having been around for so long. The Unite States Bishops Committee on Doctrine moved a seminar from Notre Dame in protest of performances of the play on campus:
With a decision about property tax relief looming in the General Assembly, Mayor Tom Henry will ask his division directors Monday to examine how they can help the city cut $10 million from its budget.
“It won't be pretty,” Henry said.
Why was Mark Souder so mad?
Not everyone picked sides. Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) was ticked at everyone. He condemned the sport's owners and players.
"The wall of silence coming out of baseball is disgusting," he said, adding it couldn't be trusted to do its own testing.
Gettin' any? No, thanks, I got some:
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ? New York City spruced up its relentless safe sex ad campaign, urging New Yorkers to "get some" on Valentine's Day.
Get some condoms, that is.
Subway ads displaying the new slogan will be plastered about the city and across city buses, with a television and radio campaign to hit the airwaves soon.
Never imagine that the global-warming hysteria has gotten as silly as it can:
Don't you hate reviewers who won't just come out and say what they mean?
Well, it had to happen. Madonna has been a terrible actor in many, many films and now - fiercely aspirational as ever - she has graduated to being a terrible director. She has made a movie so incredibly bad that Berlin festivalgoers were staggering around yesterday in a state of clinical shock, deathly pale and mewing like maltreated kittens.
Criminal geniuses of the week:
MUNCIE
Happy Valentine's Day, the biggest money-making holiday scam going. No matter what you've heard, it is still third on the list of retail-sales days, just behind the "winter holidays" and Mother's Day, according to Snopes.com. And, no, Halloween is not second on the list. It's sixth, after Easter and Father's Day.
Yet another high school publication takes on, um, sex, so yet another high school principal considers implementing a policy of prior approval:
"Electron" editor-in-chief Ricci Warwick said an article on the subject of sex wasn't meant to increase circulation but to educate students on STDs and contraception, and to dispel some myths around school.
Kelvin Sampson is in big trouble and, if there's any justice, so is Indiana University:
Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff violated telephone recruiting restrictions imposed because of his previous violations at Oklahoma, then lied about it to the school and NCAA investigators, according to an NCAA report released Wednesday.
And so it begins:
The nation's first baby boomer received her first Social Security retirement benefit Tuesday in Vero Beach, Fla., local station station WPBF is reporting.
Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946. The 62-year-old retired teacher who lives in Earleville, Md., and Vero Beach applied for her benefits online, and received her payment by direct deposit.
We're going to take it all, baby, wipe out the whole national budget.
By golly, if this can happen, anything is possible:
NEW YORK (AP) — America has a new Snoop doggie.
Harsh words for those who hype bad weather:
David Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment Canada, calls the nonstop coverage "storm porn," and said it inflates public anxieties about weather events.
Dorsey Price is a colleague, and I like him, but I was disappointed that he bought into this tired, old canard about Fort Wayne:
You can believe me. I know what I'm talking about. I really do. It is hard looking for love in Fort Wayne.
I've been doing that for about eight years now. And I think about the only thing harder than looking for love in Fort Wayne, is looking for love in a rural setting just south of Fort Wayne.
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A question from the Indiana blogosphere:
Anyone else notice the tendency of some bloggers to anthropomorphize their blog? — By which I mean something like if I would write, “Masson's Blog wonders if anyone else has noticed the tendency of some bloggers to anthropomorphize their blog?”
To me, it seems to be a stylistic tendency drawn from editorial pages where the editors write in the name of the newspaper. “The New York Times endorses . . .”
We are not amused.
An effort to amend the city's smoking ban was snuffed out before it ever got started.
It's rare for the City Council to not even approve a proposed ordinance for introduction and the discussion stage. The members who voted against the introduction were as much as saying they had their minds already made up. That's fine -- if they really have, then prolonging consideration of the proposal would just be a waste of time.
See what happens when you ban smoking in bars?
These days little children are brought along to places that would have been considered inappropriate a generation ago: four-star restaurants, cocktail parties, rock concerts. But for all the sniping from adults who resent this territorial invasion, the onslaught shows no sign of letting up.
In fact, one of its latest flash points is the local bar.
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Everybody in the world has all the cool hardware now. But Japan has the best software:
What ethnic subset has as much clout as expatriate Cubans in Miami? Seems like the Vietnamese in San Jose -- 100,000 of them -- would like to get there. There's a big fight over whether the Vietnamese business district should be called the Saigon Business District or Little Saigon:
Try not to do anything stupid today that will prove the theory of natural selection:
ALBANY, N.Y.
