Damn that global warming. Let's see Al Gore blame this one on us:
His radiocarbon research, reported in the journal Nature, shows there was a 1,000-year different between the demise of the wild horse and the woolly mammoth which Guthrie said is inconsistent with other theories.
Most political observers seem to have concluded that longtime Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton lost in the primary mostly because he was an entrenched incument who thought he could get away with supporting outrageously generous perks for legislators. The possible effect of the highly organized effort of right-to-life forces for Garton's opponent, Greg Walker, is downplayed.
I hope Wal-Mart wins its suit to be able to keep using the Smiley Face, especially since that wonderful American company is trying to beat back one of those cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys.
I have been truly inspired by the heartfelt letter sent by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to American President George W. Bush. How much better the world would be if just a handful of people realized we all need to get along and reached out in an honest effort to build bridges of trust and hope.
So I have composed my own letter. For the sake of Fort Wayne's future, I hope its recipient takes it more seriously than George took Mahmoud's.
The gas-price mistake in Plainfield has been getting a lot of play all over the country:
A computer glitch in two pumps changed the price to two hundredths of a cent per gallon. A Shell corporate spokesperson told Eyewitness News customers bought 200 gallons at the low rate before a good samaritan reported the problem and the pumps were shut down.
Be careful the next time you feel like swatting a fly -- you could be breaking the law:
Twelve species of rare flies known for their elaborate courtship displays and found only in the Hawaiian Islands are now protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Oh, God, please, no:
ORLANDO, Fla. - President Bush suggested Wednesday that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.
The president said Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is well-suited for another office and would make “a great president.”
Hey, buddy, wanna buy some phone lines? Probably wouldn't be a very good investment, though:
Verizon is reportedly in discussions to sell up to 5 million phone lines in seven states.
The New York-based telecom is courting statewide divestiture of 1.6 million lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont along with 3.4 million lines in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Careful what you put in writing -- it will come back to haunt you. Greg Walker, mainly an anti-abortion candidate, didn't really make public flogging part of his successful campaign to unseat longtime Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton. But he did, once upon a time, speak favorably of it in a letter to the editor in the Columbus Republic. Now, it's all anybody wants to talk about:
Now that approval has been given for the Indianapolis Police Department and Marion County Sheriff's Department to merge, their policies have to be reconciled, such as the two departments' differing policies on pursuit. I think the Star editorial makes a decent case for tightening the policies, which police seem reluctant to do:
Let's hear it for Allen Superior Court Judge Nancy Boyer. She is one of the eight judges who have agreed to be a part of an 18-month Indiana Supreme Court pilot program to allow trials to be covered with one still camera, one video camera and up to three microphones. Indiana is a little behind the curve on this one; lots of trials in other states have already been opened up to the public by technology.
If we want to understand how subcultures can isolate and insulate themselves, becoming perverse enclaves interested in nothing but their own perspectives, we could learn a lot by what has happened in a certain segment of the deaf community. Jane K. Fernandes' job as president of Galludet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf, is in jeopardy, apparently because she is "not deaf enough":
Hillary Clinton is like Ronald Reagan -- that's the best one I've heard in the last year:
"I was trying to think, who in my lifetime has been such a dominant frontrunner and yet people had been nervous about his electability - and I came up with Ronald Reagan," Clift told the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" on Sunday.
The Newsweek scribe noted that Reagan "was the oldest person, at that time, to try to contest for the presidency as a frontrunner."
I don't care how slick Fort Wayne International Airport's marketing campaign is. If it's a whole lot cheaper to fly out of Indianapolis, more people are going to fly out of Indianapolis. If there only a $40 or $50 difference, sure, some people might be convinced by billboards saying "Sleepless? FWA to Seattle -- 10 times a day" or even "Bonjour Times Four -- FWA to Pairs -- 4 times a day" (although that last one is doubtful).
This is an oddly structured guest opinion in the Indianapolis Star. It starts off as if it's one of these sappy New Age pieces about how companies are going to have to bow to the changing attitudes of young people about work, as if members of the baby boom generation didn't screw things up enough by demanding to be taken so seriously when they were still wet behind the ears. But then, it eases into what seems to be the real message:
So, Democrats want Republicans to reveal whatever "secret plans" they have for consoldiated government that might work to the disadvantage of Democrats. What are we talking here, tanks rumbling down Calhoun Street? A roundup of all Democrats and dropping them off handcuffed and blindfolded in Terre Haute without any money?
More fun with the Web-generator blog, this time with the create-your-own cartoon text bubble site.
It's not just newspapers that are in trouble. All the creative middlemen are threatened. We've been able for a while now to make and distribute our own music and movies. Now, add books. The "vanity press" isn't quite what it used to be.
Here's a fun way to get through those tough Monday morning hours. If you go to this site, you can create your own construction-zone sign, like the one I did at right.
What could possibly get the ACLU and fundamentalist, end-time-is-nigh Christians fighting on the same side? How about a national ID card?
Americans choosing not to carry a national ID, the site warns, will be prohibited from driving a car, boarding a plane, train or bus, entering any federal building, opening a bank account, or possibly from holding a job.
