Oops. Made a liar out of myself. I wrote this last January:
I have never recycled anything and never will, however that concept is defined. "Use it up and move on" is my motto. Bring on the landfills. Trying to endlessly reuse the same resources is the mark of a desperate people with no options, such as those that might be trapped on a desert island.
Well, I'm 0 for 2, sort of. I predicted a year ago that John McCain would be the first candidate on the discard pile. Then, last week, I said The Journal Gazette would most likely endorse Barack Obama. But I didn't exactly lose that one:
As least Fort Wayne officials -- so far -- aren't reacting to the recent homicides with an idea this bad:
When a rash of gun murders takes place, it makes sense for the police to do one of two things: renew tactics that have been effective in the past at curbing homicides, or embrace ideas that have not been tried before.
But those options don't appeal to Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis. What he proposes is a crackdown on assault weapons.
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So we're fat and dumb? Make that fat, dumb and happy:
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Forget New York, Los Angeles, or even Miami, Indianapolis is the most sexually satisfied city in the United States, according to a new report.
The Indiana city is followed by Columbus, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the report by Men's Health Magazine that ranked the sexual satisfaction of people in 100 cities.
As Wayne High School Assistant Principal Kristopher Sennett made his court appearance on child seduction charges yesterday, the 17-year-old he is accused of seducing was confused and didn't know "what to think anymore":
All morning long, people have been telling me this woke them up:
Dishes rattled and so did Fort Wayne residents' nerves this morning as the U.S. Geologic Survey reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 - later downgraded to 5.2 - struck the Midwest around 5:37 a.m. today.
Since the idea of red-light cameras keeps coming up at the state and local levels, I think we should keep bringing it to the attention of politicians every case we discover of the concept being discredited:
Fort Wayne has become a haven for refugees, and that welcoming spirit is something to be proud of. But at some point, we have to talk about how many we can realistically handle without being unfair to the immingrants and putting a strain on the services that everybody depends on. But, for far, nobody really wants to talk about that:
Hillary Clinton is going to have a Fort Wayne office in the 2000 block of Fairfield. The second place we lived when my parents moved us here was in the 2200 block of Fairfield, so I know the area well. It is gritty, blue-collar -- well, you get the idea. Barack Obama, on the other hand, has his Fort Wayne headquarters on Columbia Street, which is like yuppie urban-revival heaven.
Here's a Hillary Clinton speech on "Solutions for the American Economy" from January. I assume what she will say in Fort Wayne won't be substantially different. Here she explains the genesis of her "bold" approach:
