This warning about global warming isn't too hysterical, is it?
"Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic," predicted James Lovelock, a renowned environmental scientist.
Hey, here's an idea. Let's seek bids on construction of the City-County Building. A stupid idea, you say, since the place was built years ago? Well, it's no stupider than this:
Getting land appraised after the sale
When you think about public art, do you prefer the statue of Mad Anthony Wayne on a horse at Freimann Square or the Helmholz sculpture at the Performing Arts Center? Or perhaps you'd like something in between those two extremes -- the mastodons, for example, sort of representational, sort of not, a lot of whimsy. Your thoughts are requested:
I may have to watch the Phil Spector trial; it's likely to be the best thing on TV for a while:
It's way to early to start speculating on '08 presidential candidates. It might be more fun to start culling the weak ones from the herd -- eliminating the candidates it's pretty easy to say won't make the final cut. My first nomination to the Goner category is John McCain. He has long since lost his reputation as a straight shooter. The more people he tries to appeal to, the less coherent he sounds. This is just absolutely stupid:
How do you know when there is a bandwagon? When everyone jumps on, of course:
Perhaps I was too hasty in ridiculing those who are trying to get us all to replace our incandescent light bulbs. I appear to be giving up an opportunity to fight evil:
Well, this makes the VA scandal a little more understandable, doesn't it?
SALISBURY (AP) — A nurse responsible for monitoring care of frail military veterans didn't visit patients as required for two years and filed one report that listed a dead patient in stable condition, according to a federal inspection obtained by The Charlotte Observer.
Early in the first Bush administration, I said to Nancy Nall, "Is it just me, or is Laura kinda hot?" She replied, letting me gently know I was having one of those dangerous and inexplicable moments, "Leo, you need to get out more."
Newsweek has an article in the March 16 issue to the effect that many people trying to get a handle on productivity and manage their ever-accumulating to-do lists are reverting to low-tech solutions such as Post-it notes and paper planners:
I started reading some columnist's ramblings about the latest goings-on in Washington yesterday, but the smug, liberal, holier-than-thou condescension was so irritating I couldn't get beyond the second paragraph. I fnd that I prefer to read smug, conservative, holier-than-thou condescension. I've tried to read smug, libertarian, holier-than-thou condescension, but nobody pays attention to libertarians, and they know it, so it comes off a little whiny. Whiny smugness is not attractive.
There is really nothing here, but that hasn't stopped the non-story from getting publicity all over the country, including in a national magazine:
It was one of 15 suicides in Vanderburgh County this year, with two more deaths under investigation considered likely suicides.
The unusually high number -- nearly triple what the Southwestern Indiana county saw by this time last year -- has left families grieving and county officials baffled.
I was going to make a joke about this, since that seems to be the mood I'm in today, like: Based on my recent trips to Best Buy, I thought they were already doing that:
If you walk into a Best Buy store this summer and see a tanned, rested sales-clerk clocking in or out of his shift on a whim, congratulations. You may have stumbled on a radical experiment: letting store employees work when they want.
What do we do when our compassion doesn't have the results we might have intended?
STAFFORDSVILLE, Ky. - The bidding for the black pony started at $500, then took a nosedive. There were no takers at $300, $200, even $100. With a high bid of just $75, the auctioneer gave the seller the choice of taking the animal off the auction block. But the seller said no.
This is going to be so exciting I can hardly wait:
Fidel Castro will be in "perfect shape" to run for re-election to parliament next spring, the first step toward securing yet another term as Cuba's president, National Assembly head Ricardo Alarcon said Thursday.
Boy, if I'd known David Long was going to be a traitor to his sex by giving power to the gals, I wouldn't have been so supportive:
A basketball player succumbs to the dreaded Kerry-Coulter Syndrome, which causes its victims to tell a joke badly or tell the wrong one in the wrong place or at the wrong time:
CLEVELAND
The acceptance of medical marijuana is growing, and this will only accelerate the movement:
Medical necessity doesn't shield medical-marijuana users from federal prosecution, a clearly sympathetic federal appeals court ruled today in an Oakland woman's case that earlier went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A "state as moral arbiter" update:
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Metro Police raided a business on the city's east side Tuesday night around 7:30 and busted an illegal poker club they had been investigating for about a year.
At the poker club patrons pay a membership fee, in addition to paying to play on any given evening. There were nine poker tables seating 11 people each. It appears the club ran games seven days a week.
