A lot more work could be done from home these days, if employers were willing to give up the notion that telecommuters are somehow getting away with something instead of actually saving the company money. And there are a number of public benefits as well as the ones to companies and the telecommuters.
If my math is accurate, the wife in this happy California family of 17 children has been pregnant almost 13 years of her life, and they still haven't ruled out having more children. This tidbit is interesting:
The census stops counting once households reach seven or more. Those households make up about 2% of the region of the Sacramento region's population
If you can't wait for next year's congressional races, Masson's Blog does a little early handicapping. Like Masson, I don't know a lot about the races outside my area of the state, but I'd say his "reasonable chance" for a swing from 7-2 Republican to 5-4 Republican and maybe even 5-4 Democratic is a bit of wishful thinking. That's nothing but a gut instinct based on the proven power of incumbency.
Well, I guess somebody has to do this:
The volunteers assembled at Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1702 Bradner Pike, where they made care packages to be distributed at Indiana and Michigan jails this week.
I can think of a lot better places to take care packages, though.
The modern world rolls on -- a new way to cheat, a new way to catch the cheaters:
Indiana colleges -- and even some high schools -- have reached the end of the semester armed against a surge of student cyber-cheaters who would rather copy, paste and plagiarize than spend all night on a term paper.
The search for Alejandra Gutierrez is over, with a not-surprising sad ending. Police Chief Rusty York would say only that "the focus of authorties' interest" has been on someone already in custody, without saying who it was. Speculation has been intensifying in recent days that Simon Rios, already held in connection with the killing of his wife and three children, was involved.
The liberal bias of the media is beyond debate, and this study merely confirms that. Still, it offers a surprise or two:
Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.
Only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter.
Finally, someone recognizes that Woody Allen makes mediocre, miserable films: Woody Allen. He left out "pretentious." He actually displayed some hints of comic genius in early movies such as "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run" before he got so serious.
If you want to know the truth, I wish Barry Manilow were still playing piano at the Richmond, Ind., Holiday Inn for $75 a week. Just one more way Playboy has contributed to the ruin of this country.
Everyone is probably going to have a lot of fun over Indiana's search for a new tourism slogan now that Illinois has swiped our "Enjoy Indiana." Taking Down Words, for example, lists some suggestions, including "Ohio's Best Friend and "Welcome, Boneheads." The "Enjoy" slogan was said to be too neutral, which I take it is a polite way to sa
Though I am a journalist who operates under the umbrella of the First Amendment, might I gently suggest that "free speech" does not trump everything? It is one value that, as important as it is, must compete with other values in a democratic society. Those who always treat it as an absolute risk ignoring dangers that simple common sense should alert them to.
Morgan Freeman is one of those actors whose work I admire but whose personal views I know nothing about. (Too frequently, it's best not to know; better just to appreciate the artistry rather than discover how much you detest the person providing it.
Did anybody really think same-sex couples entering civil unions would get the relationship thing down any better than the rest of us?
A Vermont lesbian couple who entered into the nation's first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior.
There's a ton of stuff being written about the historic election in Iraq. I like this article because it looks ahead and asks, "What next?" The administration has, unfortunately, let the opposition set the terms of the debate, so we're all focused on "when the troops come home," as if that's the end of the story instead of the beginning.
The story we've all been reporting is that Pat Miller left the Daniels' administration early and came back to Fort Wayne because her Vera Bradley company needed her. The Indianapolis Star's Matthew Tully says that's not quite the whole story.
I guess I don't have a problem with the Indiana Supreme Court barring Judge Pfaff from the bench forever. By pulling a gun on someone, he crossed a line. But you've got to have some sympathy for someone driven around the bend by a runaway daughter. Wonder how she feels now?
I'd like to thank Newsweek magazine for not making me search for its weekly Bush hit piece in the current issue. They put it right on the cover: "Bush's World -- The Isolated President: Can He Change?" No need to explain or provide a link. You can write it in your head. But the issue was somewhat redeemed, as it is every other week, with George Will's column on the last page. I especially liked this:
Evansville continues to be a city we should pay attention to. Not only are they going through the same consolidation discussions (though somewhat ahead of us). As this post at Indiana Barrister shows, there is also a downtown-development parallel.
People in Marion expected 100,000 for their James Dean fesitival and got 6,000. Now the museum devoted to him is closing after only two years in its new location. "The fans" have spoken, and their message is pretty clear: Let him go; nobody cares anymore. The man had only three major movies in a career that spanned only a couple of years, and he's been dead for 50 years, but some people still seem to idolize him as a rebel whose life has some meaning in today's world. Pathetic.
President Bush is touting his Medicare prescription drug plan, exhibit No. 1 in the "Bush is no conservative" argument. My sister went online and followed the instructions to choose a plan for our mother. The plan is impossible to understand, but exceedingly simple to operate, sort of like a TV that people don't know the workings of but know how to turn on or a car they don't understand but can drive.
