(CBS4) FORT LUPTON, Colo. Violaters of the city of Fort Lupton's noise ordinance were in for a big surprise this past Friday. The city's judge sentenced citizens who have been busted for being too loud to 1 hour of listening to unpopular or unusual music.
In a courtroom with mostly young adult offenders, Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" played loudly on a boombox.
I'm Episcopalian. No, I'm Baptist. Wait, I'm both. Oh, it doesn't matter. This is one reason people don't trust John McCain:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years.
Man, when you can't even get attention by dying en masse, what's the world coming to?
The arrests came after protesters lay down on the Capitol lawn in what they called a "die in" — with signs on top of their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq. When police took no action, some of the protesters started climbing over a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.
It won't be as easy as the Patriots think to "put all this" behind them:
"It's over. We're moving on."
So said New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick during Friday's televised news conference about the videotaping dirty tricks used against the New York Jets. The tactic cost him and his team $750,000 in fines. The Pats also lose a first-round draft choice if they make the playoffs, a second- and third-round pick if they don't.
We've all heard jokes about the "fashion police" going after so and so for what they wear. Now the jokes have come true:
It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle — low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail.
This editorial is so unfocused that it's hard to decide how to attack it. The first paragraph tells us that recent reports show Indiana lags behind the nation in income and housing prices. That proves that we are falling behind in areas important to attracting businesses:
How would you like to be an economic-development official in Indiana trying to attract businesses and knowing that those reports are in the wings?
You know, of course, that there is no food "shortage" in the world. There is just a distribution problem caused, among other things, by political turmoil. Apparently, the same thing applies to parking spaces. First, we have this:
Have you had trouble finding a parking place in downtown Fort Wayne recently? A group made up of different downtown attractions is working to fix that!
Richard Aregood was famous for writing short, pithy editorials when he was with the Philadelphia Daily News. One of his most memorable was (in its entirety): "They say only the good die young. Generalissimo Francisco Franco was 82. Seems about right." I thought about that when I read this:
The Fort Wayne blogosphere has been all over the video clerk who killed an armed, would-be robber. Here are The PA-IN Erudition, Angry White Boy and The Fort Wayne Blog. The general feeling is: People have had it, justice was done, self-defense, like that.
Boy, never got an offer like this at any of my jobs:
ULYANOVSK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.
Indiana may soon stand alone:
BOISE -- Two women are among the final four candidates to take the seat on the Idaho Supreme Court left vacant by the August retirement of Linda Copple-Trout, who was the first woman on the state's highest court when she was appointed by former Gov. Cecil Andrus in 1992.
State Sen. Tom Wyss was quoted recently giving an honest assessment of why Indiana requires seat belts but not motorcycle helmets: Car drivers don't organize, but any legislator who proposes helmet laws will suddenly find scores of motorcycle riders circling his block in protest. Wonder what the senator thinks of this:
Easy access to the beach seems to be a key factor in deciding which state people would choose to live. According to a new Harris Poll, California remains number 1 this year, followed by Florida, which moved up from number three and Hawaii, which has dropped from number two. Florida has been in the top three ever since this question was first asked in 1997.
"You cut, I choose" has been the general principle for settling disputes and potential disputes between two people forever. How startling to see such wisdom in a Jif peanut butter ad that's been running on TV for the past couple of weeks. A mom is distributing the last slice of bread, spread with Jif, to her two kids and tells one he gets to cut it in two, but the other one gets first choice of which piece to take.
Oops:
A St. Paul man on his way to anger management class demonstrated just how badly he needed to attend the class.
Justin Boudin is charged with fifth degree assault for using his anger management class papers to hit a man.
It was just before rush hour on August 29, that police say the 27-year-old Boudin was at a St. Paul bus stop when he began arguing with waiting passengers.
He was particularly upset with a 59-year-old woman and yelled at her, saying, "Why don't you show me some respect?"
The farm legislation proceeding through Congress symbolizes much of what's wrong with Washington. It's government by inertia. We do today what we did yesterday, because politicians draw their power from distributing benefits and various interest groups feel entitled to receive them -- even if they serve no defensible public purpose. Our extravagant farm programs capture the absurdity as well as any other.
My brother, who lives in Texas, is fond of saying, "Never bring a knife to a gun fight." If he lived in Canada, perhaps he would add, "and don't bring a gun argument to a knife fight":
I am more than happy to do my small part:
Men are worse for the environment than women, spending more on petrol and eating more meat, both of which create greenhouse gas emissions. These are the conclusions of a new report by the Swedish Foreign Ministry.
Dan Carpenter, the Indianapolis Star columnist who sneers at everybody who is not as liberal and enlightened as he is, might have gone a sneer too far for patient Star readers:
A state that names a hospital after a football player and a university building after a comedian would seem pretty safe from any suspicion of putting on airs.
