What a concept -- looking for drunks in bars:
Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Beck said.
The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.
But wouldn't that leave the designated driver with a whole evening to kill?
If you've been incensed about the prisoners who get a better college education than many kids out here who have trouble paying for one, never fear. Inmates have as much opportunity to waste their time as we do.
Oregon's prison system in the US is turning to computer games to help rehabilitate felons.
Inmates who have a clean disciplinary record for 18 months are being given a chance to buy a small handheld game console.
One of the trickiest workplace conundrums -- when to cuss and when not to:
As this story reminds us, there are now less than two weeks left before we have to take part in daylight-saving time, and I can feel you panicking out there. After all, we've never had to do this before. No disrespect intended to the folks at WISH-TV, but their account does not include ALL you need to know about DST. So, as a public service, here is my Imbecile's Guide (don't want to infringe on anybody's trademark) to changing your watch or clock.
I wonder how much parents are screwing up their kids by not letting go?
They text message their children in middle school, use the cellphone like an umbilical cord to Harvard Yard and have no compunction about marching into kindergarten class and screaming at a teacher about a grade.
There have been so many "teachers having sex with students" stories lately that we tend to skim right over them. But if we stop and read one once in a while, we might find a couple of points to ponder:
Marsha Bradford "believes she's been wronged," the victim of "inappropriate conduct" that created a "work environment" she found "offensive." The city of Bloomington, which employed her, says Bradford took isolated comments that were not directed at her and used them as the basis for her complaint.
Like Cindy Larson, I'm a resident of the south side -- never domiciled in any other part of town except for a few months after the Army when I lived with a friend in a trailer park off of North Clinton and then shared an apartment with two other people at Centlivre. Also like Cindy, I've been dismayed by the diminishing shopping choices there, and I have fond memories of Southtown.
Two experts rate the just-finished session of the General Assembly, and "mixed results" seems to be the final grade. Bill Bloomquist, an IUPUI political science professor, notes some the inconsequential legislation that passed and some of the big ones that got away, concluding that the short session is just too short; perhaps we need two long sessions.
Wow, all you illegal immigrants and terrorists better just keep coming through the Mexican border, 'cause we're waiting for you on the Great Lakes:
For the first time since 1817, U.S. Coast Guard vessels on the Great Lakes are being outfitted with weapons
A Louisville Courier-Journal editorial, which is appalled at "the gross political failure that is dooming Kentucky's entire highway system to growing inadequacy and neglect," has strong words of praise for Indiana's ability to get the job done:
The scope of this political failure has been brought into high relief by the political honesty and courage being displayed elsewhere, and nowhere more so than in Kentucky's neighbor to the north, Indiana.
So, a cop wants to find out how many suspects there usually are in an unsolved case. He adds up all the unsolved cases and all the suspects, divides the number of cases into the number of suspects and comes up with 3.8. He writes a report to the chief that says there are, "on average, 4 suspects for each unsolved case." Would that be known as rounding up the usual suspects?
Just asking.
Somehow, I let Tuesday slip by without telling you it was Pi Day (because the date was 3/14 -- the first three digits of Pi), "celebrated across the United States by math nerds, students, teachers and professors, from elementary school to university . . . "
Holy cow. Not only can we watch live streaming of the NCAA games on our workplace computers -- a helpful Boss Button is provided, "which will instantly cover any viewer's screen with a spreadsheet." Of course all this nonproductive time will cost companies an estimated $250 million (said to be a conservative figure), not to mention the disruptiuon of services customers might encounter:
It looks like God, when he's not too busy dispatching out-of-the-closet sodomites, is going to take care of me, too (see last letter to the editor in the package):
Think about it, Leo. You are far from God. You'd better get right now. Your feet will slide soon, and you will fall into an eternity of suffering and retribution in hell.
The sale of Knight Ridder has created a whole new round of discussion about the future of newspapers. See, for example, this lengthy and comprehensive essay by Nancy Nall, former News-Sentinel columnist, which explores the whole range of issues faced by the dead-tree press these days about as well as it can be done. (Via Indiana Policy Review through Fort Wayne Observed.)
If you want to help Fort Wayne get off the list of fattest, laziest, whatever city, you should walk more and get fit. The good news is that Fort Wayne is No. 66 on Prevention magazine's list of 100 best walking cities:
Another religious fanatic goes ballistic over cartoons, but this time it has nothing to do with Islam:
Soul singer Isaac Hayes said on Monday he was quitting his job as the voice of the lusty character "Chef" on the satiric cable TV cartoon "South Park," citing the show's "inappropriate ridicule" of religion.
The disciplinary action against the two Snider wrestling coaches doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Because of public-intoxication charges stemming from a confrontation in an Indianapolis restaurant, they will lose their coaching jobs for at least two years but will stay in the classroom except for a three-day suspension. The usual reason for an employer to take action against somebody who has committed a misdemeanor when on his own time is that it somehow affects his job.
