I have an editorial in today's paper about the lesson Indiana should take from Detroit's collapse:
I have an editorial in today's paper about the lesson Indiana should take from Detroit's collapse:
I've avoided weighing in on the Rolling Stone Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover-photo controversy. As someone said, the fuzzy line between fame and infamy always creates unease in us. And the only way to judge RS is to actually read the story and see what that says. And it's a mixed bag. It goes a little gushy on the "pain" he was feeling and how everybody failed him, but it does end up calling him the monster he is.
Microsoft shares went down 5 percent with the revelation that it had to take an unexpected $500 million charge for its inventory of unsold Surface tablets:
Sorry, Chris, but I don't accept you as my spokesman:
Chris Matthews spoke for “all white people” today, and apologized for unspecified transgressions committed by them.
I usually try to avoid reverse-snobbism disdain for the rich -- that's the left's job, and I wouldn't want to put anybody out of business. But every once in a while a story comes along that pushes my "they have way too much money to throw around" button:
Posh Manhattan moms and dads are taking parental obsessiveness to new heights — by hiring $400-an-hour recreation “experts” to organize play dates for their children.
Sounds like being on a jury in Florida might be more fun than my last vacation:
The sequestration of the jury that ultimately acquitted George Zimmerman cost Florida taxpayers about $33,000 and allowed jurors creature comforts such as dinner at Outback Steakhouse, a bowling excursion and a trip to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum.
"I was just following the vice president's advice" is good for a laugh but not a smart self-defense claim:
Burning question of the day -- "If the sun went out, how long could life on Earth survive?"
If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator, it wouldn’t immediately turn cold. Likewise, if the sun simply “turned off” (which is actually physically impossible), the Earth would stay warm—at least compared with the space surrounding it—for a few million years. But we surface dwellers would feel the chill much sooner than that.
Wow, talk about lost causes and futile efforts:
A UFO group is convinced it can rehabilitate the image of the swastika no matter what furor it causes.
First he came after the cigarettes. Then the trans-fats. Then the super-sized drinks. Now, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coming after the elevators.
Attorney General Eric Holder took aim at Stand Your Ground laws Tuesday, saying the measures increase the chance for violence.
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“By allowing and perhaps encouraging violent situations to escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety,” he said.
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Why farmers scoff at climate change hype:
Fark headlined this story, "Edward Snowden just went full Soviet," which has the virtue of being both funny and sad:
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, officials say.
Man, I could almost retire on that amount:
When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
The licensing Nazis are working overtime in Kentucky:
On May 7, Kentucky’s office of attorney general sent a letter to newspaper advice columnist John Rosemond. The letter ordered him to sign a consent decree that he would stop practicing psychology without a license in their state, and stop calling himself a psychologist in Kentucky as well, since he was not licensed by the state’s Board of Examiners of Psychology.
Alongside President Obama, Mr. Bush commemorated this milestone award, an honor for volunteers who represent “a thousand points of light,” a phrase Mr. Bush first used in his 1988 speech accepting the Republican nomination for president and repeated in his 1989 inaugural speech.
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News you can use when making your summer travel plans:
LEWISVILLE (CBS 11 NEWS) - Lewisville decided to change its nudity laws after a restaurant’s servers wore only pasties and body paint to cover their upper torso. Police say the colorful ‘garb’ was not a violation of the law. But the council decided servers wearing that little were too much.
Is this the perfect symbol for the continuing lousy state of the economy, or what?
NEW YORK (AP) — Twinkies are back, but they may be a bit smaller than you remember.
The new owners of Hostess have leaner operating costs now that they're no longer using unionized workers. It turns out the spongy yellow cakes may also be a little smaller than the last Twinkies people ate.
I guess 3rd District Rep. Marlin Stuzman is a little put out with me. The editorial I wrote criticizing the House version of the farm bill was posted online at 8:30 yesterday morning, and his communications director called me from Washington less than two hours later. This was the part that especially irked them:
