The South Bend Tribune has one of those dreary stories not just defending and apologizing for those graffiti vandals who claim to be pursuing something noble but actually arguing for their nobility:
Despite the fact that, technically, he is defacing public property, he does not seem concerned about getting caught. His brushstrokes are quick but calm, and, when finished, he steps back to wipe his hands and admire his work.
An Indianapolis Star editorial correctly pinpoints a flaw in state law, but glosses over an even bigger problem:
Indiana's law, which allows authorities to seize money, cars and other property from arrested persons whether or not they wind up convicted or even charged, invites the abridgement of civil liberties because the assets fund the drug war.
All right, everybody out of the pool except the straight, healthy people!
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- An employee at a public swimming pool in eastern Kentucky was suspended for a week without pay after telling two disabled gay men to leave, city of Hazard officials said Saturday.
The White House drug czar is trying to make a case for correlation that just isn't there:
A new federal report has found that more than two-thirds of Indianapolis men arrested last year were under the influence of at least one illegal drug.
Wednesday's National Drug Control Policy report showed that 69 percent of Indianapolis men arrested in 2010 tested positive for at least one drug at the time of their arrest.
This is no big issue -- I just don't get it:
Police said Sunday that an “America's Most Wanted” television show segment about a missing Indiana University student generated numerous tips, but so far none of them have led to major breakthroughs.
Juxtaposition of the day -- make your own decision about what it means.
First, some people are working on $135,000 to, among other things, erect a 13-foot statue of Larry Bird at Indiana State University.:
Professors William Ruger and Jason Sorens have just released their "Freedom in the 50 States" Index and -- wait for it, drum roll please -- Indiana is one of the five freest states, along with New Hampshire, South Dakota, Idaho and Nevada. The least free were New York, New Jersey, California, Hawaii and Massachusetts.
I can be pretty cynical about "the homeless" and the pollyannaish approach to them by some of their advocates, but this seems pretty harsh even to me:
Aww, we will no longer be allowed to pay for rapists and murderers to get philosophy degrees?
Indiana prisoners will no longer be able to earn a taxpayer-funded bachelor's degree or study liberal arts under a shift in state prison-education policy.
This wuss makes Jimmy Carter seem absolutely macho for surviving the killer rabbit attack:
A Speedway man was recovering this morning from a kitten bite to his thumb.
Craig Wyatt, 24, called police Thursday afternoon after a kitten in a woodpile nipped him on the right thumb, according to a Speedway police report.
