At least since "12 Angry men," the jury cliche has been the lone holdout for acquittal who stays stubborn and ultimately turns everyone else around. According to an IU study, there may be some truth to it:
At least since "12 Angry men," the jury cliche has been the lone holdout for acquittal who stays stubborn and ultimately turns everyone else around. According to an IU study, there may be some truth to it:
Oh, come on, fella. Don't beat around the bush -- say what's really on your mind:
Further evidence that Los Angeles is a strange place. The Daily News recently dropped 10 cartoons and is now bringing back a few of them based on reader outrage:
I'm sorry we messed up your comics but grateful so many of you have let us know about it and told us what you want.
The six movie formulas that must be stopped:
6. Ultra-masculine action star gets stuck with small child or children.
5. Psychotic little kid terrorizes adults.
4. Young, hip (read: black) guy invades typically white world.
3. Brilliant musician rises, falls and finds redemption.
2. Father is wronged by gang, kills entire planet.
If we're going to stop the scourge of global warming, sacrifices must be made:
The politics of global warming got very concrete, and oddly difficult, In a meeting with local environmentalists in the coastal town of McClellanville today, where Elizabeth Edwards raised in passing the importance of relying on locally-grown fruit.
A grand jury has declined to indict Dr. Anna Maria Pou in the deaths of nursing home patients during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. If I understand the story correctly, there isn't much doubt that painkiller-sedative cocktails were given to some of the patients. But was the intent really to kill people it was going to be difficult to get out? Or was it just to ease the suffering of people under extraordinarily dangerous circumstances?
This isn't too dishonest, is it?
The picketers marching in a circle in front of a downtown Washington office building chanting about low wages do not seem fully focused on their message.
Well, this won't look good on the job resume:
GARY, Ind. -- An anger management instructor was charged with domestic battery after his wife accused him of grabbing and beating her during an argument, police said.
Why wasn't this man in a casino or bingo parlor or at a horseracing park or lottery ticket outlet where he belonged?
Indianapolis metropolitan police arrested a second man they say was running illegal shell and card games during the Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration.
Forget the presidential contest for now; it's still way too early. This is much more fun to talk about right now:
Three years ago, NBC announced with pride that Conan O'Brien would take over "The Tonight Show" in 2009. But now that the date is fast approaching, the web is beginning to panic: How do we anoint O'Brien but still keep Leno in the Peacock's nest?
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I imagine my house without me. What would it be like? Well, it would be an empty house, useless and pointless. That's what the Earth without humans would be like, too, useless and pointless. But lots of Earth-first types -- you know, humans are the problem -- are getting their jollies out of Alan Weisman's book "Earth Without Us":
OK, people are turning away from the Old Media to sample new forms of communication. Fine. But do the old media have to keep hurting their own credibility?It turns out you can't even believe The New York Times bestseller list:
Can you imagine being free this long, even having a daugher who doesn't know about your past, then getting caught?
A Muscogee County inmate who left a work detail 37 years ago is back in custody.
In 1970, Eddie Rias was arrested and sentenced to five years for robbery by intimidation.
Rias was living under another name in Indiana when U.S. Marshalls tracked him down.
Me, either.
So far, for all the videos I have done, I've taken them to work on a portable hard drive and had them rendered into a format our server could handle. That adds a step or two and a lot of time to the process, and I've been meaning for some time to try the YouTube option, doing it all myself at home. What better opportunity to do that than the great YouTube/CNN Democratic presidential debate, in which old-fashioned politics meets new technology? Here is my take on the debate. I hope it adds much to your Campaign '08 experience and makes you a better-informed voter.
The Indianapolis Star lists "9 reasons taxes went through roof." It lists everything except the one thing I woud have put at the top of the list -- governments spent more, which required them to take more of our money. When some of us talk about the institutional (as opposed to deliberate) liberal bias of the press, this is the kind of theing we mean.
Look, I know branding works, but it's still cynical and manipulative. Instead of telling companies to just do what they do and do it well and for a justifiable price, they persuade them to sell the sizzle by coming up with an easily graspable and memorable slogan or image. Healthier potato chips! A brand-new car, twice as good as the old one! And now, the new and improved war in Iraq:
No wonder people hate journalists for misquoting them and using them and looking down on them. Here's one of us who says, yeah, we do do that. So What? Get over it.The title -- "It doesn't matter that journalists misquote everyone" -- pretty much says it all:
The reason that everyone thinks journalists misquote them is that the person who is writing is the one who gets to tell the story. No two people tell the same story.
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We have our attacks of Indy Envy here from time to time, but it's apparently at epidemic levels in northwestern Indiana:
Lake County residents have been hollering since reassessment and the switch to market value about soaring property taxes. That's especially true in North Lake County, where the enormous tax breaks given to heavy industry amplified the property tax problems.
It's good to know that not all our corn will be sacrificed to ethanol and increasing the cost of tortillos in Mexico. Some of it will continue to be quite useful:
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ind -- Bourbon may be synonymous with Kentucky, but its main ingredient is rooted in the farm fields that blanket the southern half of Indiana.
Most economic reporting is so one-sided that it's actually shocking to see a newspaper story acknowledging that there are tradeoffs in government mandates:
A huge smile spread across Katrice Thurman's face as she described all she'd be able to afford once minimum wage in Indiana increased.
