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October 25, 2012 03:31PM - Book Review: Murders of
Muhlenberg County
October 18, 2012 11:37AM - An Unconscionable Attempt at
Prior Restraint
September 28, 2012 04:32PM - A Killer is Released;
Bloomington, Indiana, 2012
September 24, 2012 05:29PM - The End of Nipper Lumpurr
September 17, 2012 02:33PM
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OCTOBER 25, 2012 3:52PM
Mourdock's God
Richard Mourdock apologized for his remarks in the last Indiana
Gubernatorial race that by stating that he stands by his beliefs.
What Richard Mourdock is actually sorry that, “So many people
mistook twisted, came to
misunderst
… Read full post »
OCTOBER 18, 2012 11:45AM
Book Review: Murders of Muhlenberg County
When I stopped writing so frequently I filled my time with something else I love but which was getting short shrift, reading.
In poking around on the Internet I became… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 4:35PM
An Unconscionable Attempt at Prior Restraint
It reads like the opening of a mystery novel. On August 25, 1995, a
man was looking through a telescope at pretty, 23-year-old Heather
Danyelle Teague as she sunbathed on a chaise lounge on the
otherwise deserted Newburgh Beach in Sp
… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 5:30PM
A Killer is Released; Bloomington, Indiana, 2012
When
I worked as a Janitor I worked for a while as part of a two-person
team of Floaters at the IU Main Library. Floaters did projects like
stripping floors and extracting carpets and we also covered
routines for absent Janitors who h
… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 2:35PM
The End of Nipper Lumpurr
“I made an appointment to take Nipper to the Vet
tomorrow,” J. said. The words hung in the air. We both knew
it was time.
Last weekend we had been to a T/
… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 4:28PM
The Shocking Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney has been a surprisingly shocking Presidential
candidate.
It was shocking when we first heard about poor Seamus, placed in a
carrier strapped to the roof/
AUGUST 31, 2012 3:16PM
Where Condi and Clint Went Wrong
Condoleeza Rice, former Secretary of State under George W. Bush and
current Professor of Political Science and Global Business at
Stanford University, got it completely wrong when she claimed in
her speech at the Republican Natio
AUGUST 6, 2012 3:48PM
Finger Lickin' Good
Comedian D.L. Hughley was
on one of the cable news networks over the weekend, either CNN or
HLN, flogging his new book Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity
of Dopes is Ruining America, when he touched upon the
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day hatched up by Mike Huckabee,
former/
AUGUST 1, 2012 6:34PM
Book Review: Wicked Washington
The city of Washington, D. C. seems like it would be a ripe, if not overripe, resource or tales of of mysteries, murder and mayhem as the title of Troy Taylor's book Wicked Washington: Mysteries, Murder & Mayhem in America's… Read full post »
JULY 31, 2012 6:34PM
Book Review: Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City
When picking up the book Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City (2006, The History Press) by Pat Hendrix, the Reader may be forgiven or expecting to read a book about Vatican City, a fine concept in and of itself. Instead the Reader w/… Read full post »
JULY 30, 2012 5:32PM
Book Review: Cambrideshire Murders
The good people of Sutton Publishing can always be depended on to produce an excellent product with their Sutton True Crime History series and author Alison Bruce doesn't disappoint with Cambrideshire Murders (2005).
JULY 27, 2012 6:25PM
Television Review: Merlin
As a fan of Arthurian Legend in all of its forms, I have really enjoyed watching the series Merlin on BBC America. I had wanted to watch it when it was shown on Siffy, the SyFy Network a while back but I didn't want to pick up after t… Read full post »
JULY 26, 2012 5:14PM
Attempted Poetry: Foodies
Walking home for Lunch
along the pebbled
path
Buttons sez
I will trade
you
one slightly
dead
brown and white
mouse
already
pre-stretched
across your route
for your convenience
in exchange
for
one small can of fish
JULY 24, 2012 5:33PM
July's Book Order
For this order I had a
few Patron Requests, a couple of replacement/updates, and just four
new New York Times Bestsellers.
Patron
Requests are: Profiles in Survival: The Experiences of American
POWs in the Philippines during World War II; Earl Hamner: From
Walton’s Mountain to Tomorrow; Ike Go
… Read full post »
JULY 23, 2012 5:09PM
Parental Regrets: Clint Edition
I know I was a terrible mother to Jamison. I always knew I would be
a terrible mother to Jamison; or would have known if I had actually
thought about it, which, at seventeen, I didn’t. Jamison
turned out to be infinitely mor
… Read full post »
JULY 20, 2012 10:03AM
Grandbaby Number Three
They took the baby away at birth and the mother confined to the
mental ward of the IU Health Hospital. They claimed
she had attempted a home birth, which clearly she
hadn’t. Ten days before she had gone to the
hospital thinking/
JULY 19, 2012 3:06PM
Wet for a Moment and then Back to Dry
The sky turned dark and rumbled yesterday but no rain came.
Today it rained at about 11:00 a.m., really hard for about five
minutes and then it stopped. By luncht/
… Read full post »
JULY 18, 2012 10:52AM
Watching a Train Go By
I was delayed on my way to work this morning by a long train, 35 or
40 cars, running on tracks along Franklin Street, parallel to the
Library.
I heard it before/
JULY 17, 2012 3:34PM
Joe Heinmiller's House is For Sale
After years of threatening to do so, Joe Heinmiller has finally put
his house on the market.
Most people in Owen County remember the house as Dr. Kay’s
office,/
… Read full post »
JULY 16, 2012 11:39AM
Looking for Lydia Landram; 1838 - 1898
A Patron came in yesterday looking for their
great-grandmother.
Lydia Landram shows up in the 1850 Census as Lidia Landram, living
in Washington Township, Owen Count/
… Read full post »
JULY 13, 2012 2:44PM
Attempted Poetry: Judge Alex Opines
You Don't Look Like a Blaze
Judge Alex Said
B-L-A-I-S-E
Blaise
the Plaintiff explained
Oh
said Judge Alex
I thought you meant Blaze
like a Fiery Blaze
You Don't Look Like a Blaze
Judge Alex Said
Forgetting
that a Blaise
can sometimes rage white hot
and sometimes
Blaises Smolder Read full post »
JULY 12, 2012 4:33PM
Keeping an Eye on the Speedway Bomber
With Brett Kimberlin climbing back into the news again, including a
front page piece by Salon’s own Alex Pareene that seems to
find moral equivalency between Brett Kimberlin’s felony
conviction and Republican pretty-b
JULY 11, 2012 11:11PM
Book Review: Legacy of Violence
The title of John D. Bessler's book, Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) is a little misleading. Overall, Minnesota comes across as, by and large, a rather peaceable Sta/… Read full post »
JULY 10, 2012 10:29AM
The Things That Got Away
Sometimes I believe there must be a Collector’s gene; you
even have it or you don’t. My three great-aunts on my
father’s side were all inveterate and enthusiastic collectors
and their collections, in cabinets, on
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com