The law and the jungle

Some law enforcement groups want Indiana to go further than it does in restricting sales of products with ingredients used by meth cookers. Cold and allergy medicines containing pseudoephedrine are now required to be behind the counter, and there are restrictions on how and to whom it can be sold. What is proposed is that we make such products prescription only, and a proponent makes use of a good analogy:

Think he'll pick the chick?

Lots of people are commenting on Judge Vaughn Walker's tossing of California's Prop. 8, thereby invalidating the actions of Californians who voted to define marriage in one man-one woman terms, but the American Family Association was one of only a few groups to send me a press release on it. The AFA says one thing I agree with and one I disagree with:

This is where AFA gets it right:

Sen. Arlen Specter is pushing for a law to allow cameras at the Supreme Court's oral-arguments sessions, and both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have spoken in favor of telvising court proceedings. Some say this means "momentum is building" for an end the the court's camera ban, but that may be overly optimistic:

Also reporedly under consideration: the dimwit ordinance, the dunce ordinance, the lout ordinance, the numskull ordinance, the blockhead ordinance, the dumbbell ordinance, the lunkhead ordinance and the lamebrain ordinance:

A win for open and vigorous debate:

SOUTH BEND — A St. Joseph County judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit against The Tribune and ordered the plaintiff to pay more than $47,000 in legal costs to the newspaper.

St. Joseph County resident Michael Sheneman filed suit against The Tribune in January 2009, alleging that a story written by reporter Jeff Parrott included false statements and libelous claims.

Despicable:

Jasonville, Indiana (CNN) -- Last Christmas, Stacey Chapman hung a stocking, anxiously awaiting the homecoming of the all-American soldier she had met online and planned to marry.

For the past two days, I've been harangued by phone and e-mail and in person over a letter to the editor we published Monday. It spoke against the recent City Council proposal to ban K2:

Never a cop around when you need one. Sometimes it's because of police ineptness:

The District police department policy on forcible entry caused a "deadly delay" as officers waited for a supervisor outside an apartment while a mother and her two young sons were being stabbed to death inside, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman's family.

Ecclesiastes 3 doesn't mention this specifically, but since it does say "to every thing there is a season," it can reasonably be inferred: A time to be funny and a time to keep your trap shut:

A man who police said struck an officer with his pickup truck outside Indianapolis Motor Speedway after the Brickyard 400 was arrested after officers determined that he had been drinking.