I'm certainly glad to read this:
Believe it or not, you can walk and talk in your 70s.
Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave. Vigorously.
I'm certainly glad to read this:
Believe it or not, you can walk and talk in your 70s.
Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave. Vigorously.
If our recent hurricane experience is any indication of how prepared we are for diaster, the prospect of an avian flu pandemic ought to make us very afraid.
In the culture of celebrity, it's all about the money or the fame, or maybe the money and the fame:
The very rich--John D. Rockefeller and powerful people of his era--used to pay press agents to keep their names out of the papers. But today one of the things money buys is a place at the table beside the celebrated, with the celebrities generally delighted to accommodate, there to share some of the glaring light.
Does anybody besides me think that if a little bit of Utah rubbed off on New Orleans and a little bit of New Orleans rubbed off on Utah, everybody would be a little better off?
When I saw the headline on this story, I wondered what the heck a "universal" woman was? An out-of-this-world woman? A woman who worked for a movie studio? A beauty contest winner? Of course not. She was a woman from Universal, Ind., pop. 400-plus. We have lots of little places (all below 1,000 pop.) with interesting names.
It's lovely that some ISU students will be given free computers. But how about books and other supplies for students below the college level, so that "free public education," promised by the state constitution, means what it says?
So, this is what it takes to get into the Women's Hall of Fame? Follow your husband, ride on his coattails, ignore his philandeering, all because it advances your own ambitions, then lecture the rest of us on how important it is to let the whole village run your life? Oh, well.
We may be getting too politically correct here in the colonies, but at least we don't have to worry yet about being socially correct:
Breaking news over at Indiana Parley:
I like Tom Hayhurst, both as a person and a councilman, and he's raising some money, so Democrats must think he has a shot at unseating Mark Souder in the 3rd District race. But it will be an uphill fight.
Happy Columbus Day. If you don't run across any drivel today about what a racist, oppressive exploiter Chris was, count yourself lucky.
When peace activists were setting up Camp Casey in Fort Wayne, they said one of its purposes would be to solicit suggestions for how to get of Iraq. Well, how about by winning? Even if they don't want to give war a chance, I guess I'd ask them what they would do differently to fight terrorism, but I suspect I wouldn't like the answers.
How many foreigners does it take to equal 1,000 Americans? I ask after noticing that today's Journal Gazette put the story of the Asian earthquake on Page 2. America's Gulf Coast hurricane was Page 1 news -- for all of us -- for weeks. I thought maybe I was being too hard on the JG, picking on a competitor, so I checked a number of today's front pages, and the vast majority had something besides a tease on Page 1.
I believe it was just a couple of days ago when I observed that it's risky to bet against George Bush when it comes to political maneuvering. Sort through all these layers of intrigue and see who you think will come out on top. I love this stuff.
I know smaller-government advocates like me are always complaining about Americans' growing expectations of cradle-to-grave security, but, really, we are such small thinkers here. And pay attention to the part about when prostitution is legal.
With all the candidates being considered for the Nobel Peace Prize, they chose this joker? Obviously, success isn't a criterion, unless you think a nuclear North Korea and Iran make the world safer. At least the work of Dick Lugar and Sam Nunn resulted in something tangible.
There are a lot of stories about the origin of "Hoosier." Bet you haven't heard this one (not to mention an explanation of "Purdue"). I went to Ball State, so leave me out of it.
Sorry, have to bore you with a little insider baseball.
It's good to have all the nuts in one place so we can keep an eye on them. It is comforting to know, however, that the future has been set:
This week's congress has been organized by the Alfa y Omega group, which believes that a fleet of UFOs will fly to Earth at the end of the world and that Jesus Christ could use one for his second coming.
It's not too late to save yourself. You, too, can quit watching Oprah.
