Johnny Damon Returns as a Tiger

Arizona Immigration Law Enforcers

GOP Blocks Campaign Finance Transparency - I Wonder Why

Americans with Disabilities Act 20 Years On

It's been 20 years. Long way still to go.

Wikileaks Afghan War Documents

Evansville Soccer Player Abby Guerra is Not Dead

Amazing but horrible story - Abby was declared dead after an accident last week, but it turns out that it was another girl who died and Abby is still alive though critically injured. Thoughts with her family, and with that of the girl who did die, Marlena Cantu.

Ian Tomlinson: Injustice in High Places

Ian Tomlinson: No Prosecution for Policeman

Evansville Weather Patterns

This was in yesterday's paper.

Misogynist Garbage - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I'd been meaning to say that the gigantically over-rated novel by Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is hilariously mocked in the Shouts and Murmurs column in the New Yorker, by Nora Ephron. It's great to see someone taking the piss out of it. That book drove me nuts - sexist, misogynist, monotonous, ugly and gratuitous crap masquerading as literature. Why the chattering classes are in love with Larsson's writing beats me.

Obama Deals with the Leak

Ellsworth & Coats Argue Over Fundraising

George Steinbrenner in Heaven

Evansville's Thunderless Thunder on the Ohio

Vuvuzelas - the gift that keeps on giving.

Indiana ID Law for Buying Alcohol

This was in yesterday's Courier. Evansville's up in arms about the new Indiana law that requires everyone to be carded every time. Since I get wrinklier and balder every week, I like it.

Netherlands World Cup Dirty Play

George Steinbrenner Dies

Ellsworth working to get Earmarks for Evansville

This was in the Courier on Sunday - followed by cartoons on Monday and today: first three days-in-a-row publication for me. As the dude says in this cartoon, "yippeee!"

World Cup Final - Ugly Stuff

Sad to see the inventors of Total Football playing like a bunch of Sunday park cloggers. Holland lucky to see out the game with ten men. The ref, an English policeman, must have thought about reaching for his trusty truncheon a time or two. Here's Mike Ingham, the BBC's chief football correspondent:

the biggest match in the world was soiled and stained and betrayed by the Netherlands.

I know part of football is to stop your opponent, but you must do it legitimately and I don't really see the point of getting to the final if you're going to disrespect it like the Dutch did so crudely. It was a bit like watching a child trying to build a sandcastle and another child then knocking it down.

Romney's Ignorance Revealed by Sen Lugar

Great story here. What's not news is that Mitt Romney is a grandstanding fool.

Ellsworth, Coats Take different Attitudes to their Past

Pretty much summed up in this story from yesterday's Courier.

Al Gore Sex Scandal Allegations

If you haven't followed this story, here it is; here's the National Enquirer version....

More Red Sox Injuries

No English Hooligans at World Cup

More Vuvuzelas

Referees at the FIFA World Cup

Independence Day 2010

Happy 4th July to everyone. This is in today's Courier.

Update: I am very sorry that the flag patch on the sleeve here is not rendered correctly. As everyone knows [?] the US military wear their flags with the stars towards the enemy. Thanks to my crack team of military fact-checkers for picking this up :)

Red Sox Injuries Mount - Varitek is Out

Petraeus In, McChrystal Out - it's a Liberal Plot!