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Welcome to reality, where we must deal with things as they are, not as we wish them to be:
It's funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspec tive on things, make you wish you could rewrite history.
State Rep. Michael DeBose, a southside Cleveland Democrat, discovered this lesson the night of May 1, when he thought he was going to die. That's the night he wished he had that gun vote back.
Gas prices are outrageous, and we're not going to take it anymore! Let's boycott 'em. We'll just stop driving, and that will show 'em. Well, not really:
The rising price of gasoline has certainly increased the amount of complaining from drivers paying $3 a gallon or more to fill up their cars, but it so far has done little to curtail how much people are driving.
Wow, for a minute there, I thought we were going to be famous:
You may think you have a clue about the privacy issues of the information revolution, but what if the very concept of privacy gets transformed?
President Bush's approval rating stands steady at 33 percent, according to Gallup, which the left will make much of. The right will focus on Congress:
Twenty-nine percent of Americans approve of Congress, down slightly from last month's reading (33%) and this year's high point of 37%.
What Amy Sorrell did to get in trouble at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School was, metaphorically speaking, a bank robbery compared to the jaywalking that got this Indiana teacher fired:
When one of Deborah Mayer's elementary school students asked her on the eve of the Iraq war whether she would ever take part in a peace march, the veteran teacher recalls answering, "I honk for peace."
Wonkette, one of the left's favorite feeble wits posing as deep thinkers, has fun with the disaster drill in Indianapolis, getting to make light of Indiana and the Bush administration in the same post:
Stamps just went up 2 cents. Cigarettes will be going up 44 cents a pack. Gas goes up every day. What's the saying -- being "nickeled and dimed to death"? Oh, for the good, old days, when the price of a Coke stayed a nickel for more than 70 years. There were many reasons for this, among them:
This isn't the kinds of thing likely to lure me out of my neighborhood, but the Three Rivers Festival is bringing back an old favorite:
This year's Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival is bringing back, by popular demand, the bed race.
The race, or what organizers called a “real sleeper event” when it debuted in 1974, will feature teams of five
CBS News is having its worst ratings ever, so score one for the old, white guys:
I'm just surprised at how, almost 30 years after I worked on the "Evening News" as the first woman producer, that Katie is having such a tough time being accepted by the public, which seems to prefer the news from white guys, and now that Charlie's doing so well, from older white guys. I guess they want the reassurance of a Walter Cronkite.
Thank you for your support.
Another Hoosier is traveling to distant parts to give us all a bad name:
We will never run out of minutia to micromanage. Next up, LEDs:
Council will have to examine how often a message on a sign can change (Crawford suggests six seconds), whether messages can scroll (move vertically) or travel (move horizontally) and how bright and big the signs can be.
Crawford said he expects a preliminary vote Tuesday and a final vote May 22. He said he'll also encourage council to discuss the proper size and placement of all signs and give that to the plan commission.
Have we become such a big city that the terrors of daily life are too routine to report on? Of all the news operations in town, only WANE-TV bothered to carry anything on this:
A neighbor was the target of the drive-by shooting, but the bullets tore through the home of an innocent family. It happened around 4 o'clock Friday morning when the sound of gunshots woke a little girl.
Well, let's stop being so serious. A while ago, there was an online poll to determine the funniest joke of all time. It was British, so some of the finalists might seem a little strange by our standards. But the winner made me laugh, and I'd probably put it somewhere in the top 10:
A lot of local bloggers wasted your time in the last few weeks with small potatoes, making predictions about who would win in city primary races. I am now ready to wow you with the big one -- the presidential race in 2008: It will be between -- are you ready? -- Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman.
You might remember that in the first GOP presidential debate, Reagan was invoked more than God:
We will still be afflicted with rogue, unlicensed interior designers, but at least those scandalous massage therapists will have to shape up:
Every primary election, the voter turnout gets lower and lower and everybody says how awful and whatever can we do about it, then we all forget about it until the next abysmal time. The turnout here was about 13 percent if you factor out the registrations considered inactive, about 11 percent if you don't. That's typical. They did try something in Richmond this time around, letting voters have a choice of where to cast their ballots instead of confining them to a precinct machine, and having the polls open for a whole week instead of just on Tuesday.
Thanks to the GI Bill, I was able to finish college without any debt. It didn't cover quite everything -- my wife and I lived in an apartment her family owned, which made up the difference -- but it enabled me to go the last two years without working a part-time job the way I had to for the first two. Times have changed, though, and the GI Bill doesn't cover as much as it once did:
The cassette tape, which helped make music collections more portable and, thus, more fun, is the latest casualty of the digital revolution. I love this explainer for the kids who have no sense of history:
For younger readers, the compact cassette consisted of two miniature spools between which a magnetic tape was passed and wound. This mechanism was housed in a protective plastic shell.
