This is one I never heard of before:
After an upswing in claims of prescription drug thefts, the Greenwood Police Department is no longer taking most reports of the crime.
Investigators said the majority of the claims are actually from people abusing the drugs, because a police report paves the way for a doctor to issue more prescription medication, 6News' Ben Morriston reported.
Speaking of gambling . . .
It's interesting to periodically take up the books we read as children and teenagers. Lately, I've been revisiting some of Robert Heinlein's juvenile titles. The one I'm reading now is "Podkayne of Mars," which has, among other things, a skewering of capitalism run amok ala Las Vegas. There is a certain Dom Pedro Casino on Venus that claims to have "EVERY KNOWN DIVERSION IN THE UNIVERSE." It has the following sign outside the gambling sector.
Third-graders in the Brownsburg school district will be on the fast track to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome:
I love magazines. When I was in high school, my parents always had a couple of subscriptions -- sometimes Look and the Saturday Evening Post, sometimes Life and Reader's Digest. Cracking open the newest issue of one and devouring it cover to cover was one of my favorite things. (I usually read all the short things first, then went back for the long ones one at a time until I had read them all, too. That's still the way I read a magazine today.)
If any of you remember Andrea Muirragui Davis, there is news that is both sad and life-affirming. Andrea grew up in Fort Wayne, then came to The News-Sentinel as a reporter and eventually became assistant metro editor. She then left us for greater job opportunities and is now associate editor of the Indianapolis Business Journal. She recently learned that she has breast cancer:
Here's an end-of-life story for you:
Here's some research that seems totally bogus to me. A couple of applied mathematicians at the University of Vermont have concluded that Monday, far from being the most miserable day of the week, is actually the second-happiest. They state that we are at our absolute lowest on Wednesdays:
Suck it up, smug, arrogant liberal scum:
Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll.
At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.
I don't usually like to gloat -- that is something we smug, arrogant, conservative scum like to leave to the other side -- but ha, ha, ha. See you at the polls next year.
Most of us can't afford to advertise ourselves by securing the naming rights for something as big as a sports stadium. But what about something a little more modest? Thanks to the budget troubles of cities like Indianapolis, we may finally have our shot:
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard's administration is looking into whether selling naming rights and other forms of advertising might help the city make needed infrastructure improvements.
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They seem to have either their music or their history or both mixed up in Lafayette. A bunch of latter-day pseudo-freaks had a music festival:
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Downtown Lafayette was overtaken by hundreds of people in tie-dye and bellbottoms, all celebrating a special Mosey Down Main Street.
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