Leo Morris, saving humanity one date at a time:
In a recent study, sociologist Diane Felmee found only a third of women said looks were the first thing that attracted them to a man. Most preferred a sense of humour or financial and career success.
Researchers at Newcastle University also believe ugly men exist as a way of repairing our gene pool. Women would rather date men with good genes, who can fight disease easily, than a classically beautiful man.
We read all the time of new towns being born -- Leo-Cedarville may be a mouthful, but its people are creating a municipal identity -- or of towns becoming cities and cities wanting to be bigger (welcome to Fort Wayne, Aboite!). But sometimes, a place falls off the map:
Oh, the humanity.
I'm in Indianapolis for a few days, trying to enjoy a family get-together. But our joy has been dampened by a catastrophe of such magnitude that the mind can barely comprehend it. The grief is palpable. Children weep, and grown men huddle in the shadows, afraid to talk about what the future might bring:
Just a chief political trick that Gov. Daniels is wise to avoid (so far):
It's finally sinking in that ethanol isn't the magic solution for our energy problems and that pushing it has brought unintended, if not unforseeable, consequenses:
Try to live your life as if it contains no strangers -- just people you don't like whom you haven't met yet.
The Indiana Statehouse has become the latest place to go gun-free, sort of:
Pistol-packing tourists at the Statehouse soon will have to leave their guns at home.Lawmakers and judges, however, will be exempt from new Statehouse security restrictions that go into effect June 4.
Former FWCS educator and administrator Eugene White continues to make waves as superintendent of the Indianapolis school system:
Have we gotten so used to ceding power upward that we have trouble even understanding local control? That's one conclusion to draw from new state fireworks legislation:
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to St. Mary's graduates and had some wise things to say about the essential and the merely important:
This week's shocking study uncovering astounding information:
At least 80 per cent of women surveyed in a new study say they have been approached in a sexually overt way while at a singles bar.
Maybe someone can explain this to me, because I'm not sure I undersand it:
According to the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Utah, for the first time in history, four generations comprise the American workforce, and like a family, they don't always get along.
“You can have an office with a 65-year-old and a 26-year-old; there's a long span between those two,” Carroll said. “They have to learn to work together.”
I don't know if this is supposed to be "political analysis" or just a feature story about delusional Democrats:
A cadre of leading Indiana Democrats is beginning to believe that John Edwards has the potential to do what no Democratic presidential candidate has done since Lyndon Johnson in 1964: Win in Indiana.
Don't forget, there is no such thing as a stupid question. There are, however, plenty of stupid people who ask questions.
After the primary, I wrote an editorial saying, among other things, that Republicans wouldn't stay divided this year the way they did in 1999, that they would unite behind Matt Kelty in a way they didn't for Linda Buskirk. Here, in a Kevin Leininger column, is a hint that I might need to rethink the issue:
Under a proposed amendment to the city's noise ordinance, fireworks will be limited to 13 days a year, a change made possible by state legislation this year. This is either, A) a sensible step toward peace and quiet or, B) more unwarranted government meddling by the usual suspects, an argument we've been having for a long time. I link to the post mostly because of the accompanying video by reporter Ryan Lengerich.
The silliness never ends:
Ellen Frankel stands just 4-foot-8 1/2 inches tall, a size that allowed larger co-workers to playfully scoop her up at the office and make remarks about her height. Some even patted her on the head.
Lawmakers are considering complaints such as hers as they review a bill that would make Massachusetts just the second state to bar discrimination based on height or weight.
Here's an intriguing idea, advanced by Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson and apparently endorsed by Gov. Mitch Daniels -- a constitutional convention to "realign Indiana's 19th Century government to meet the challenges of the 21st Century."
Could someone explain what a convention hotel complex planned for downtown Indianapolis has to do with Harrison Square?
Naysayers who continue to pick away at the Harrison Square project should take a look at Indianapolis, a booming city thriving partly because of officials' willingness to leverage public money with private partnerships.
