Well, duh. Give kids less time to forget stuff, and they will forget less stuff:
While it's the start of the school year for most U.S. students, children at Barcroft Elementary have been at their desks for nearly a month — and they're fine with that.
Nobody needs to hunt anymore, and the rural lifestyle that supports it has been diminishing, so this seems like a natural evolution:
Hunters remain a powerful force in American society, as evidenced by the presidential candidates who routinely pay them homage, but their ranks are shrinking dramatically and wildlife agencies worry increasingly about the loss of sorely needed license-fee revenue.
I'm glad Simon Rios will never see the light of day again, but pleading out a case this monstrous sets a troublesome precedent. Indiana has not been frivolous with its death penalty -- it's reserved for the worst of the worst. Rios abducted, raped and killed a 10-year-old girl, then murdered his whole family. If that's not the worst of the worst, what is? What's the point of even having a death penalty if this case doesn't qualify?
How cool would it be to have this much money to spend on books every year?
Selecting which books will make it onto the shelves at the Allen County Public Library is more of an art than a science, says bibliographer Kathy Witwer. Following trends in television, popular magazines, publishing companies and literary awards, Witwer finds the beat of current literature.
I'm guessing that anything that's less of a hassle for police will be more of a hassle for us:
Getting a traffic ticket in Indiana will soon become a little less of a hassle, at least as far as police are concerned.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -- from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
"I was so drunk I didn't know what I was doing." OK, says the jury:
A man who shot his drinking buddy to death was too drunk to mean it, a Lexington jury concluded. The attorney who swayed the jury, colorful Kentucky politican Gatewood Galbraith, spoke exclusively to WLKY.com after the verdict.
I trust all of you understand some of the reasons reports of the "poverty" rate must be viewed with skepticism. For one thing, they reflect only income; things like food stamps and other government benefits aren't counted -- neither are stock dividends, for that matter. For another, those classified as poor in this country today have material comforts the rich in our past didn't have and the relatively well-off in other countries still don't.
-- Quatrain XI of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ," translation by Edward Fitzgerald, 5th edition
I love the kitchen, so I'll bake the bread. You bring the poems and find us a tree to sit under. But we have Circuit Judge John D. Tinder to thank for the better wine selection:
Boy, you can wait your whole life for an opening paragraph like this:
Indiana State Police arrested a Chicago man Wednesday afternoon after he was found driving completely nude and masturbating on the Indiana Toll Road.
A homeless man in Indianapolis is suing because police chased him away from Monument Circle:
It's not clear whether the action was part of a recent police crackdown on the homeless Downtown.
So, Geoff Paddock is one of the people who don't get their reminders to renew their license plates. He forgets and is issued a ticket. He complains to the BMV and is told, well, it was one of our computer glitches, and it's just a courtesy anyway, so quit yer whinin'. Paddock isn't buying it:
“But it's more than a courtesy. License fees are a tax, and the least the state can do is to mail notices in a timely manner.”
Can you imagine being one of these 191 people, knowing you've been charged with something and worrying for eight or nine years when they're going to come and drag you into court?
The Johnson County prosecutor today announced the dismissal of misdemeanor criminal charges against 191 defendants whose files were submitted to the Greenwood City Court in 1998 and 1999 but were apparently hidden by a former court employee.
Unfair! We get Mellencamp at the coliseum, but Bloomington gets:
Rock icons Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello will perform Oct. 19 at Indiana University as part of homecoming week celebrations.
Bummer. Being angry won't solve anything. I shall try to be amused.
What a pal -- Fred is going to announce on my birthday:
DES MOINES (AP) — Republican Fred Thompson, whose entry into the presidential race has been long anticipated, will officially launch his candidacy Sept. 6 in a webcast on his campaign site, followed by a five-day tour of early primary states, the Associated Press has learned.
A veteran of the Iraq war calls for a return of the draft:
A deferment draft, however, is a different story, and ultimately counterproductive because of the acrimony it breeds. By allowing the fortunate and, often, most talented to stay home, those who are drafted feel less important than what they are asked to die for. At the end of the day, it was this bitterness that helped fuel the massive antiwar movement that pushed Nixon to end the draft in
Richard Jewell, the security guard who should have been a hero but was labeled a terrorist, has died at 44:
The Jewell episode led to soul-searching among news organizations about the use of unattributed or anonymously sourced information. His very name became shorthand for a person accused of wrongdoing in the media based on scanty information.
Today's quiz: What distinction does the Indiana Supreme Court have?
Answer: It's the only state high court without a woman.
This will matter to those who think women still aren't getting a fair shake in certain areas. Of course, having a representative on every state Supreme Court but one has to be seen as progress, even if it seems to make Indiana a little backwards.
We can be ghouls:
The report that Owen Wilson, the 38-year-old comic actor known for his easygoing demeanor, had attempted suicide was shocking and sobering for both fans and the industry. And it left many people wondering how this sensitive situation will affect the in-demand actor's workload.
How it will affect his workload? He tried to kill himself.
The ghoul of legend fed on human flesh, specializing in robbing graveyards of corpses.
I am learning more than I want to know about men's restroom etiquette. The only rules I have known for sure are that there is no eye contact at the urinals, and there is no talking except for a brief exchange during the hand-washing process or a "How you doin'?" if you meet while one is going in and the other is leaving. Now I have to wonder about my stupid feet:
