When I read about Mike Pence, truly a conservative in most respects, dissing the U.S. Senate's amnesty plan disguised as a guest-worker program, then offering his alternative, which calls for a stronger border-security program, followed by another version of an amnesty program that he says is not an amnesty program, I thought I had seen the final proof that Washington.

Thank God we didn't let those cretin Kentuckians kill any Hoosiers in their mad quest for pagan pleasure:

Northern Kentucky University isn't going batty.

The school didn't find any endangered Indiana bats in the trees on the site of its new $64.2 million arena, clearing the way for construction to begin.

Maybe the Belmont Beverage folks should have planted some Indiana-bat-attracting trees as a way to fight off the eminent domaniacs who took their property.

Boy, you can't say Mark Souder isn't serious about fighting the drug war. He actually wants to test a fungus, Fusarium oxysporum, to see if it can destroy the plants in Colombia and Afghanistan used to make cocaine and heroin. There's just one tiny little problem:

However, the nation's drug czar, John Walters, and his staff said it's possible that the fungus would not only destroy coca plants and poppies - which are made into cocaine and heroin_ but also ruin the soil for other crops.

I tell you, it's that music. If it annoys us that much, it just has to drive to drink the ones who hear it over and over, all day long.

Something was wrong with the ice cream man selling treats on their street.

Not only was the driver of the ice cream truck driving erratically, police say he registered three-times the legal limit for driving under the influence.

This seems like a sensible approach for an airport that's hemorrhaging customers because it's too expensive for people to use:

Under the Traffic & Revenue Improvement Plan (TRIP) slated to effect by July 1, any existing carriers that increase the number of passengers between 5 and 20 percent could be reimbursed for various airport fees.

Currently, carriers pay more fees when they increase their traffic.

Americans are mad as hell, and they're just not going to wait anymore:

An Associated Press poll has found an impatient nation. It's a nation that gets antsy after five minutes on hold on the phone and 15 minutes max in a line. So say people in the survey.

Ah, such perfect symmetry in nature. We want to have more biofuels plants, which will require the production of more corn, which will mean more corn byproducts to use as pig feed, which means more pig production, which means a steady supply of breaded tenderloins, a sandwich other states try but only Indiana gets right.

Make of this what you will:

Atheists are America's least trusted group, according to a national survey conducted by University sociology researchers.

Based on a telephone survey of more than 2,000 households and in-depth interviews with more than 140 people, researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, homosexuals and other groups as "sharing their vision of American society." Americans are also least willing to let their children marry atheists.

Here's an interesting poll asking people to vote on the greatest American novel of all time. Most of the books on the list of contenders deserve to be there, but of course the more books on the list, the more interesting the voting will be (and why have a list in the first place?). The authors say they are ignoring sociology and politics, but then make a snotty comment about "socialist realism" in defending their decision to leave "The Grapes of Wrath" off the list.