The empty summer hours are coming to an end! The between-season drought is over!! The NFL season starts tonight!!! With the Colts! beginning the defense of their Super Bowl! title!!!! And they're optimistic:
The empty summer hours are coming to an end! The between-season drought is over!! The NFL season starts tonight!!! With the Colts! beginning the defense of their Super Bowl! title!!!! And they're optimistic:
Much has been written about the hypocricy of rich and famous greens who use "carbon offsets" as a way to live the good life while lecturing the rest of us on the need to scale back. In some cases, it seems to be much worse than that:
I was chatting the other day with George, a fellow employee of Fort Wayne Newspapers, and at one point mentioned that, because of the Monday holiday, we were probably going to spend all week thinking it was one day earlier than it really was.
"Not me," George said.
"You're back in sync already?"
"Yep. I live in the moment."
There is really nothing substantive in this post. But I just realized that I had 13 posts for today, and I had to do one more, to get the number to 14.
I'm not given to unreasonable fears, really I'm not. I'm a bit of an agoraphobic and a claustrophobe -- I like to be inside, but in a really big house. And I have to brush my teeth the same number of times in exactly the same way each time -- oh, wait, that's obsessive and compulsive, not phobic.
Guess this is why Notre Dame got stomped. Instead of paying attention to the prayers of the football players, God was messing around with politics:
Sioux City, Ia. - God's will is for Iowa to have the first-in-the-nation caucus, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson told a crowd here Monday.
Even the federal government can't bring itself to do anything about "undocumented workers," and Sheriff Ken Fries wants to track the activities of "illegal aliens"?
The Allen County Sheriff's Department is one of the first in Indiana to track crimes committed by illegal aliens.
But will it translate into helping rid the community of that unwanted influence?
WNBA. Come on, does anybody really care?
Indiana beats Detroit in WNBA Eastern finals opener
Tamika Catchings had 22 points and 11 rebounds to help the Indiana Fever beat the Detroit Shock 75-65 Friday night at Indianapolis in Game 1 of the best-of-three Eastern Conference finals. Catchings set a franchise record with her fourth consecutive double-double.
Cool. Next time I have an extended stay in the hospital, I can have my IV tube and YouTube, too:
INDIANAPOLIS -- First, people got used to being able to surf the Web via free wireless connections as they sipped lattes at coffee shops.
Now, in many cases, patients and visitors to hospitals can whip out their laptops or other wireless devices and enjoy the same free Internet access.
Just one small story from the northwest corner of the state: An e-mail is circulated saying that the owner of a Dunkin' Donuts is turning away customers in uniform because "you are killing my countrymen and I will not serve you." Outrage builds until somebody decides to check it out:
"Hard to believe that something like this might be going on in our community,” said John Pitt of the Indiana Army National Guard.
ANGOLA, Ind. (AP) — A naked man driving along the Indiana Toll Road was arrested and charged because his lewd conduct distracted other motorists, police said.
"No, Martha, I don't think I missed the exit. Why don't you get out the map and . . .Oh! My! God! Don't look! Don't look!"
Shocking, simply shocking:
LONDON (Reuters) - Rock stars -- notorious for their "crash and burn" lifestyles -- really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.
A study of more than 1,000 mainly British and North American artists, spanning the era from Elvis Presley to rapper Eminem, found they were two to three times more likely to suffer a premature death than the general population
Freedom of speech. OK. Religion in the public square. Check. Upholding the values of the First Amendment. On board. But what about when the sermonizing is amplified?
Last week, a U.S. senator's life fell apart in public, and there was hardly a shred of sympathy for him. An 18-year-old beauthy pageant contestant was savaged to the nation's great flee. The U.S. attorney general gave a resignation speech in which he felt compelled to disparage his father's whole life. GeorgeWill:
My love affair with Royal Crown Cola began in college when we started drinking RC with Crown Royal whisky. That drink is commonly known as "Royal Crown Crown Royal," but we just called it "Double Crown."
New York Times headline from Tuesday: "Bill Clinton's challenge: Keep focus on his wife." Hope he does it better this time around than last.
I missed this the first time around in late July, but somebody else in the blogosphere linked to it, an editorial in the Indianapolis Star, which, once upon a time, was honestly conservative.
Good lord, what ignorant drivel:
You'd think it would be impossible for a Democrat these days to come with a plan for extending government's reach that hasn't been discussed to death already. So I have to give John Edwards credit. He is scaring the bejeebers out of me:
A solution brilliant in its simplicity; if too many students don't meet the standards, lower the standards:
At Metropolitan State College in Denver, half the new freshmen don't meet upcoming state requirements for the number of high school courses needed to get into public colleges and universities.
At the University of Northern Colorado, 22 percent of the freshman class fall short of the requirements. And among Colorado State University freshmen, the figure is 17 percent.
Woody Guthrie is one of my musical heroes, but he was, alas, a hard-core Communist. "This Land Is Your Land" was not a sentimental song of American idealism; it pretty much presented the Stalinist view of land and property. Many leftists who came of age in the 1920s and 1930s, it is said, became party members or avid followers of the Soviet Union out of some misguided sense of collectivist altruism. For many, this was true.
