Lamebrained analysis based on incompetent reporting:
Lamebrained analysis based on incompetent reporting:
WHITING | The city's annual three-day homage to the humble, delicious pierogi and all things ethnic including babushkas, has made the top 10 list of bizarre festivities compiled by global travel website TripAdvisor.
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It was more a matter of not knowing “what the exact mission was going to be at Randallia,” he said. “The size. The scope. The number of rooms that we would use.”
Getting a little strange in the NBA, I guess:
It was a close encounter of the hoops kind.
Former Knicks player Baron Davis says he was “actually abducted by aliens.”
I generally stayed away from the hoopla surrounding the George Zimmerman trial, nothing only that the state's case seemed (from a distance) to have enough holes in it to create reasonable doubt. Apparently, the jury agreed, so that's that.
The good news-bad news story of the day:
The U.S. government posted an unexpectedly large budget surplus in June, a further sign of the rapid improvement in public finances that has taken the heat off Congress to find savings and raise the nation's borrowing limit.
Why the progressive movement should find common cause with some on the right who have problems with the NSA's extensive program of snooping on Americans:
New Metropolitan Human Relations Commission Executive DirectorDawn Cummings explains what the agency does:
Metro combines law enforcement with education and outreach, Cummings explained, with types of discrimination falling into three groups: overt, covert and unconscious.
I, uh, well, gee, you know, um, er:
In Connecticut, selling Obamacare involves renting an airplane. Oregon might try to reel in hipsters with branded coffee cups for their lattes. And in neighboring Washington, the effort could get quite intimate: The state is interested in sponsoring portable toilets at concerts in an effort to reach uninsured young adults.
There's nothing really connecting these two stories except the fact that I saw them around the same time and both tickled me. From here:
Broccoli is getting a moment of redemption in the White House.
So what do they want, the death penalty?
A state law that took effect last week doubles Indiana's fines for motorists who illegally park in parking spaces for the disabled.
Hey, Wal-Mart, get outta here; we don't need your stinkin' jobs:
Boy, the "Are we there yet, Daddy?" whinings on a trip to this park would really become unbearable:
Our Rep. Marlin Stutzman has lately been championing splitting the farm and food stamp programs and considering them separately instead of as a single bill, and some of you might recall that The Journal Gazette editorialized about what a terrible idea this is. People who favor increasing agricultural payouts would stop helping the food stamp people get their goodies, you see, and the food stamp people would no longer cheerlead for the farm programs. Heavens, if that happend, there might be less government spending or some other catastrophe.
We can all sleep easy tonight -- the ashtray police are on the job:
PERU — A Miami County commissioner wants a county-wide crackdown on businesses violating state code dictating where cigarette receptacles may be placed after the state issued a complaint saying the Miami County Courthouse was violating the law.
Boy, here's a milestone it's not good to reach:
CNS News reports that our shriveled full-time private sector workforce is now smaller than the number of people who receive subsidized food assistance from the federal government.
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