What a waste of time and energy this would be:
A new statewide poll released today found strong support for moving Indiana's May primary election to January or February.
Some 61 percent of those surveyed in a WISH (Channel 8) poll said the primary should be held earlier in the year to give Hoosiers more of a voice in presidential politics.
Everyone is talking about the tirade by the Oklahoma coach who went off for several minutes on a female sports columnist for the local paper for "downgrading" one of his players. The video is all over the place. It seems awfully contrived and stagy to me, and it certainly kept everybody from talking about, you know, football. The coach's record ain't that good, and he may have a touch of Bobby Knight Syndrome.
But you decide. Here's his rant on YouTube:
Oops, Part 1:
Earlier this month, when Mayor Street announced an aggressive new city plan to go after tax scofflaws, he warned: "We will spare no one."
He could have started by looking in the mirror.
Until last week, Street was $4,798.99 in arrears on his property-tax bills for two North Philadelphia properties. He paid up Thursday, shortly after a Daily News reporter asked him about the debt.
Evan Bayh endorses Hillary Clinton, so once again we have to endure a load of this nonsense:
The backing by Bayh, a moderate Democrat, could help Clinton with those who fear her reputation is too liberal to win the general election.
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Indiana, it is said, has the strictest voter ID law in the nation. So it's not surprising that our law is going to become the test case before the U.S. Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter poor and minority Americans from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections.
The last United States' last remaining slaughterhouse that processes horse meat for human comsumption -- after being shipped overseas; don't get the protest marches ready -- is closing because of a court action:
“States have a legitimate interest in prolonging the lives of animals that their population happens to like,” said the opinion written by Judge Richard Posner. Judges Ilana Rovner and Frank Easterbrook sided with him in the decision.
Are we post-feminist enough now that gentlemanly behavior can be acceptable again?
Chivalry is not dead. It's just been keeping its head down for a bit. And who can blame it when the line between courtliness and condescension has become so blurred?
A damsel, however, need not be in distress to enjoy a considerate gesture.
Well, let's have a last round of Ahmadinejad. The great leader may have gone one step too far in his speech at Columbia. He can get away with his Holocaust denial in some quarters, but this willful ignorance just won't fly:
With Al Gore's help, we can save the world!
During a simple trip to the grocery store, you make hundreds of decisions that can have real environmental impacts. With just a few easy changes, you can make a positive difference in the world.
Instead of regular aluminum foil or plastic wrap, buy recycled aluminum foil. It uses just 1/20th of the energy needed to produce regular foil.
A hardy band of entrepreneurs given a helping hand by a caring government, or another group of downtrodden further oppressed by the man? You decide:
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit -- a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
St. John, Ind., apparently has a zoning ordinance that forbids persons "who are unrelated to each other" from living together in a dwelling that is in a single-family district. The town is getting grief, justifiably, for not granting a variance:
This isn't exactly comforing:
Nearly 10,000 foreigners from states sponsoring terrorism have obtained permanent residency in the United States in the past seven years, congressional investigators say.
When I was still in high school, a friend of mine confessed, during a much-regretted hangover, that he did not "drinkee for drinkee"; he "drankee for drunkee." That put him decades ahead of this guy, an honest-to-God sociologist who works for a real univeristy:
It is only 7.30pm, but difficult to avoid groups of rowdy teenagers. As we head towards the restaurant we see two girls sitting on the pavement, giggling as they throw up.
Leo's Fidel watch:
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nearly died and underwent several blood transfusions in which almost all his blood was exchanged, but he is now doing well, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday.
If you've read many USA Today editorials, you know there is hardly an issue -- no matter how controversial or complicated -- on which the paper will not try to find the middle ground. In this piece, the paper tackles the subject of high school exit exams, which 26 states use to make students prove they have learned what they were supposed to in order to get diplomas. Without them, a high school diploma becomes less and less valuable. But with them, many kids will get left behind without a diploma.
So maybe we should ask The Journal Gazette, in its now hyphenless incarnation, to become The JournalGazette:
About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Papa gets some brand-new digs:
KETCHUM, Idaho - Ernest Hemingway's final home in this central Idaho mountain town — with its astonishing array of the author's personal possessions — is perhaps the most enigmatic, and certainly the least visited, of the houses the Nobel Prize winner once owned.
I think this is the wrong question:
Is a college campus a place for all views to be aired, or are some public figures too extreme to deserve the platform?
Oh, come on. Haven't people who have made it to their mid-70s and landed in a nursing home earned the right to be free of the health police?
It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.
They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, "Give Us Our Just Desserts" and "They're Carbs, Not Contraband."
