If the drug dealers see a German Shepherd, they're likely to get suspicious, right? So what's needed is an undercover dog:
If the drug dealers see a German Shepherd, they're likely to get suspicious, right? So what's needed is an undercover dog:
One of the things I've never understood about the abortion debate is why some of the strongest opponents make these exceptions:
US President George W. Bush signalled his opposition to a South Dakota abortion ban that forbids the procedure even in cases of rape or incest, saying he favors such exceptions.
Don't get me wrong. A distinctive bridge into downtown would add touch of class to Clinton Street. But pork is pork (note the term "earmark"):
However, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., secured $4 million in federal funds “earmarked for us to be allocated toward that bridge and to make it a real signature piece,” said Sharon Feasel, a redevelopment specialist for the city. Added to the $2 million INDOT will spend on the project, the budget to replace the bridge is about $6 million.
Tom Griswold of the Bob & Tom radio show has been complaining about cursive writing for a week (why does it have to be taught along with printing when so few people can do it legibly anyway?), so he must have seen an account of this study:
I don't care what else happens in the economy, but we'd better not have a Twinkie crisis.
Saved! Fort Wayne Indiana etc. offers up a recipe so we can make our own Twinkies. You cannot just have Twinkies, of course -- that would not be a balanced meal. So you should make some Snicker's Pie to go with them.
Hey there, Indianan, how ya doin'? That quaint term -- "Indianans" -- is how we're referred to in the headline on this USA Today story about Gov. Daniels' controversial Indiana Toll Road lease plan. Guess the headline writer must have thought "Hoosiers" was offensive. The story itself is a pretty decent wrapup of the issue and includes this priceless comment from House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer of South Bend:
Some comments on a couple of the primary contests:
The Tax Foundation has a new State Business Climate Tax Index showing that Wyoming has the most business-friendly tax climate and, surprise, surprise, New York has the worst. If you go to the bottom and click on the attached pdf file, you'll learn that Indiana is ranked No. 11, which ain't bad. The better news (for us, at least) is that nearby Ohio and Kentucky are both in the bottom 10.
Well, they're dropping like flies, aren't they? After the deaths of Don Knotts and Darren McGavin, Fort Wayne blogger Left of Centrist did a very nice post, with photos, of all the 1960s television stars who have died lately. And he did a new post to cover the loss of Dennis Weaver.
Know a guy named Kweku Akan? Maybe you do, but just don't know that you do:
Although his name change has been official for only about three months, Kweku Akan (pronounced kway-koo ah-kahn) knew years before he would leave behind the name Carl Johnson.
If you do research on the Web and want to get beyond basic googling, here's a site you should bookmark. Compiled by Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute, it's a wonderful list of hot links to research sites and tools. It's being used by a lot of journalists to do research, and now you have it, too. Don't go there if you're easily sucked in unless you have a lot of time to kill.
Maybe the eminent-domain backlash from the Kelo decision is only the beginning:
Tempers also are growing short over the use of “regulatory takings”
I guess there are worse things our legislators could be wasting time on than direct wine shipments:
Georgia has an official amphibian, crop, folk dance, insect, peanut monument, 'possum and vegetable.
This year it might get an official type of dirt.
Today's quiz: The great American director Raoul Walsh suggested a new name for actor Marion Morrison because he had just been reading about which American Revolution general?
Answer: "Mad" Anthony Wayne, for whom the second-largest city in Indiana was also named. For reasons that aren't recorded, "Anthony" was replaced with "John," and The Duke and Fort Wayne became forever entwined.
Both Indiana and Fort Wayne are spending money to come up with snappy slogans in order to entice the tourists. Doubt that either one will top Australia's:
Australia launched a new A$180 million ($133 million) advertising campaign on Thursday which seeks to attract international tourists by swearing at them.
Some people will attribute this death to the dangers of air-guitar, some will call it yet another side-effect of the worry about secondhand smoke. I say a mattress manufacturer needs to be sued.
I know some of you rightwing, fascist, law-and-order types out there will be in a snit over this decision:
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (AP) -- A 16-year-old convicted of killing his family on newsman Sam Donaldson's ranch was sentenced Thursday as a juvenile and ordered held in state custody until he turns 21.
State District Judge James Waylon Counts ruled that the state failed to prove Cody Posey could not be rehabilitated -- the overriding factor in sentencing him as a juvenile.
If you can't wait for the May primary, Indiana Parley has some reporting from the Allen County Republican Convention (including some audio posts) and is running a straw poll on the sheriff and commissioner races.
We should be allowed to expect certain standards of behavior from the professionals we depend on. Our accountants should not declare bankruptcy. Our lawyers should not end up in jail. Our mechanics should not get stranded and have to call AAA. Our therapists should not be caught naked in the middle of Main Street babbling about the Martian invasion.
Our physicians should not die.
Say I have myself a little vegetable garden, and I want to make a little money from it. I can't compete with the mega-farms, so I decide to specialize, getting really good at, oh, tomatoes and cucumbers. I set up a stand at the farmer's market, developing a mailing list of my best customers. I start shipping to some of them directly. Then the Supreme Court comes along. Some tomato- and cucumber-growers in Ohio, forbidden to ship to customers in Indiana, have cried discrimination. You're right, the court says.
