Finally, after all these years, a new way to dispose of our earthly remains. I'd request that for myself, but I'd be afraid they'd use me to fertilize some pig farmer's corn field, and then where might I end up? Maybe I can have myself ground up and mixed with some nice French Roast, passed around to all my friends in one-pound bags. Even though I'd be gone, they could still wake up in the morning and have a steaming cup of Leo.
Dan Carpenter is an Indianapolis Star columnist who might even be too liberal for The Journal Gazette's editorial page. In this offering, we learn that he will go to the mat for Evan Bayh, doesn't think much of John Roberts, has no appreciation for the Constitution and has utter contempt for any Hoosier to the right of, well, Dan Carpenter. This probably won't make him feel better.
With all the reporting related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, you surely know by now that, if a disaster strikes, you should be prepared to be on your own for up to 72 hours. Here's the kit you should have tp make sure you are.
We have an interesting conversation going on in the Fort Wayne blogosphere about what news is and who "real" journalists are. It started when Nathan Gotsch wrote on his Fort Wayne Observed blog about a swinger's club in Fort Wayne. I did a post remarking that this was evidence of the evolution of blogs, from mostly expressing opinions and engaging in media criticism, to doing more original reporting. Things took off from there. (Wrapup here.)
You probably think you only have to put up with President Bush for three more years, then live with the effects of his Supreme Court appointments for a generation or so. But here's what a famous journalist thinks:
Woodward said he thought of Bush's plan as a 100-year agenda.
"Creation science" is an oxymoron, and "intelligent design" is just a different way to try to get religion into science classsrooms. That's not to say that religion shouldn't be explored in schools, but mixing faith and science will benefit neither. It would be nice if we could follow this debate from afar, but that's not to be.
Thank God someone is paying attention to the towels.
I don't care how dangerous it is. There's nothing else in the world quite like it, and anybody willing to give it up deserves whatever happens.
No, Mr. President, "diversity" has not been one of this country's strengths. How we've handled diversity has been. But too many people, including, unfortunately, you, seem intent on turning the great American melting pot into a salad bowl. I don't care, by the way, whether the next justice is man, woman, white, black, whatever, as long as it's a rightwing wacko conservative who will drive the "Constitution is a living document" wacko liberals right around the bend.
Thank God for weathermen and Louis Farrakhan. Without them, we'd never even get close to the truth. Personally, I like the theory that George Bush directed Rita toward Texas to get the evacuated survivors of Katrina that he missed the first time around.
Fort Wayne has a swinger's club. It has its own Web site, which includes rules for swingers and photos of the inside of the place.
Don't want to say I told you so, but . . . I told you so. The Star editorial is undoubtedly right that this move was probably designed to help get Bayh through the early appease-the-liberal-base primaries. But it will make it harder for him to rush back to the center, where he needs to be, if he does get through those.
And if you STILL believe the GOP is the fiscally conservative party, just consider the treatment Indiana Rep. Mike Pence got from Tom DeLay and other congressional Republican heavyweights for having the audacity to cut spending elsewhere to pay for hurricane relief.
Is Tom Delay completely brain dead?
We need to drag this woodpile of wasteful spending that is buried in the federal budget out into the light and throw it onto the scrap heap.
And which party has control of the federal budget, hmmm?
Anytime an improved source of news and information comes along, the despots are there, clamping down. It won't work this time, though, will it? The Internet is one of the forces (increased free trade is another) that will topple the tyrants everywhere. Once people get a taste of what liberty will bring thing -- whether it's more knowledge or a middle-class lifestyle -- they will not be denied.
You just can't trust those Hollywood stars to keep their word. I'm still waiting for Alec Baldwin to move to France, as he promised to do if Bush won his first term.
Would you believe Don Adams was run over by a rabid elephant? No? Would you believe he fell into a gravel pit? No? Well, would you believe he just got old and died? His goal was to die when nothing else was going on, so he could get better play. Missed it by THAT much.
New to the blogosphere: Ball State is trying an interesting experiment. Twelve students are chronicling their school year in blogs using technology provided by the school, which hopes the effort will help attract new students. The blogs are sanctioned by Ball State, but school officials insist the online documents are uncensored. Let's see if that holds up if the blogs turn profane or become overly critical of the university.
No phone calls tonight or tomorrow night, OK?
