The law and the jungle

I suppose some zealous constitutional nuts will object to this on civil liberties grounds:

Terry Doran, one of our frequently contributing guest columnists, sometimes goes off on a paranoid "the haves keep looking for ways to screw the have-nots" rant. In a column in today's paper, he prefaces one such rant with a grievance against domestic spying:

Recently my daughter, Cayman, in the eighth grade, asked about the shutdown and the massive spying operation on Americans by their own government.

The jury has reached its verdict in the case of David Bisard, the former Indianapolis police opfficer accused of being drunk when his patrol car slammed into some motorcyclists, killing one of them:

An Indianapolis police officer was convicted Tuesday of driving drunk and causing a fatal crash, sparking a case that has roiled the city's police department for more than three years.

This isn't exactly startling, but it is worrisome:

Hey, she was just following Joe Biden's advice:

Considering how the homicide rate has been soaring this year, maybe casual cruelty to an animal isn't important in the grand scheme of things. But I think it's worth noting:

A Fort Wayne man charged with kicking a cat in the head was found guilty Tuesday in Allen Superior Court.

This is a controversy I've never quite understood:

Indiana made history when its voter ID law was upheld by the Supreme Court and became the blueprint for similar laws in other states. Now the Richard A. Posner, the judge who originally upheld the law when it came before the Seven Circuit Court, says he was wrong:

Yeah, well, it might be "legal," but we'd better not catch you using it:

Aww, did you miss me yesterday? I apologize for my absence, but it was necessary. I was in seclusion downtown, rediscovering the joys of euchre.