Sen. John McCain has accepted the overwhelming scientific evidence that global warming is real.
With the announcement, McCain distances himself from President Bush — and, after all, who wouldn’t? — while inching closer to the right-of-center position that both major political parties occupy.

The “brain drain” has been on the minds of Hoosier officials for the past decade. A 1999 study showed that more than one-third of residents who earn at least a bachelor’s degree leave the state. Retaining roughly two-thirds of those college students means Indiana is not only below the national average (71 percent), but well below our neighbors in Illinois (82 percent), Michigan (80 percent), Kentucky (80 percent) and Ohio (75 percent).

Are they gone yet?
You know — the Democratic candidates for president. Barack somebody and one of the Clintons.
I held off asking that question until today, since we are now a de-facto afternoon paper, and the odds are pretty decent that both candidates — there are only two, right? — will have packed their attack ads and gone to West Virginia.

A person who intentionally inflicts pain upon himself is considered a masochist. A person who intentionally chases a rather stupid yet highly skittish bird for fun is called a turkey hunter. I’m not sure which one is the worse mental defect.