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Opening Arguments

Toys 'R' dangerous

What's your excuse now?

So, the girls don't all get prettier at closing time:

You're going to have to come up with a better excuse for sleeping with that person whom you wish you'd never met.

It seems that the old "beer goggles" excuse just won't work.

What big eyes you have

Posted in: Science

Hicks in the sticks

Waste and duplication, today's example:

The problem is that the U.S. government has at least 15 official definitions of the word “rural,” two of which apply only to Puerto Rico and parts of Hawaii.

Leaks and leakers

I've been trying to decide what I think in general about government leakers. As a journalist, I'm probably supposed to admire them on principle, since they're in the anti-secret business and that's the core function of my profession. But that doesn't really work for me. In fact, I'd be more inclined to dislike the lot of them as the kind of untrustworthy people I wouldn't want hanging around my own life.

Name of the game

Breakfast anytime

One sign that the terrorists haven'n won yet:

McDonald’s is opening its eyes to breakfast by moonlight.

The Oak Book-based chain is testing a late-night value menu called “After Midnight” that lets customers mix and match its best-selling breakfast and lunch items like the Egg McMuffin or Big Mac, with hash browns or fries.

Posted in: Food and Drink

This is frackin' unbelievable

On the day after gasoline shot up to $4.25 a gallon in Indiana, this is heartening news:

Petrotyrants: If there was any doubt the U.S. shale revolution is breaking the dominance of unsavory energy producers on global oil supplies, look no further than last week's OPEC meeting, where the alarm bells were going off.

Courtesy's cost

I'm reluctant to cast doubt on the veracity of a total stranger, but this sounds like bunk to me:

Posted in: Current events

Over the line?

Here's another issue that will surely get sucked into the great partisan divide. Many Republicans who gave President Bush a pass on it will be outraged at the Obama administration, and many Democrats who excoriated Bush for it will give Obama a pass:

Road trip. Not.

Yikes!

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Despite what a GasBuddy Senior Analyst told NewsChannel 15 Tuesday, gas prices have hit $4.25 at several stations across Fort Wayne Wednesday morning.

[. . .]

Indiana was fourth most expensive state for gas as of Wednesday around noon.

Posted in: Our town

Life and death, by the rules

Now we're getting into scary territory:

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rebuffed an appeal from Rep. Lou Barletta on behalf of a girl who needs a lung transplant but can’t get one because of a federal regulation that prevents her from qualifying for a transplant.

Beyond bias

Psssst!

Bad tea

You've heard, I'm sure, the one about somebody being so clueless in the kitchen that he can't boil water. Apparently it is possible these days to screw up that simple task:

A reader recently wrote in to ask: Why is tea made with microwave-heated water so lousy compared to tea made with water boiled in a kettle?

Posted in: Food and Drink

Chains of command

This is a tough one:

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and top officers from each branch of the military will comment on legislation meant to stem a rise in sexual assault cases.

For the children

For the children

Bummer of the week

At first I thought airlines charging a baggage fee signaled the coming end of civilization. But this may be a better sign:

 

It’s one of the luxuries of staying in a hotel — room service. But the days of delivery could be numbered for all of us.

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