Coming home to roost

At least is wasn't in the Trailer One: CNN

Pelicans - mad, bad and dangerous: BBC

Bowling for Texas: ChiTrib

Stamp prices going up ... again: USA Today

Only in Indiana

Senator Evan Bayh opened for Hillary Clinton as he had all day long, even at a stop in Merrillville, earlier in the day. So it was no small irony that it was Lake County that was a burr in her saddle at the end of the evening. At 10:30 p.m., BBC World News America was reporting that Lake County had yet to report its primary election results, taking the spotlight off of Hillary Clinton for critical spin doctoring hours leaving her to proclaim her Chicagoan bonifieds ... in Indianapolis. At 10:45 p.m., CNN was reporting that Indiana was still up for grabs with 85 percent of the delegates counted, the results showing a 52 to 48 percent Clinton / Obama split. For one night, Indiana mattered to the presidential race. And Bayh hadn't exactly delivered.

BTW: The Gentleman from Arizona achieved a clear victory in Indiana. Not that it mattered.

Five little words

No one would ever have expected to see these five little words in print by a major news network: “crucial primary state of Indiana.” Will Republicans and independents make merry mischief in the Hoosier primary? We'll see. At least the New York Times finally made more nuanced observations about Indiana in recent days than it had before. Indeed, the Times has even taken note about how local races are being overshadowed by presidential politics. Not that most people in Indiana are even paying attention to the Gray Lady. But a Hoosier ex-pat living in Michigan seems to have gotten it just about right for the Washington Post is a short about the Hoosier state. Off course, it'll all be over Tuesday night when the results come in and the media spotlight will move on. But for a few short weeks, Indiana will have gotten its crucial close up, whether it was ready for it or not.

Because they could

Global Warming, Oceans Dying: NatGeo

Judge terminates Gov. Schwarzenegger's Indian casino fee plan: KGTV

China launching mortars over the Great Firewall: Times of India

A Rolling Stone gathers an honorary doctorate: ChiTrib

Because pork requires lubrication: Time

Passing of a Madam

Because the media and Washington can't get enough of a good sex scandal, the chatter has been focused on the passing of the D.C. Madam who rather dramatically kept her promise that she'd rather kill herself than go to jail. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud on April 15 and was expected to be sentenced on July 24. Apparently she left notes about her intentions. And, it seems, she told her would be coauthor, Dan Moldea. Palfrey's escort service, which she was running out of her California residence, had a number of high level clients. One of her employees was a former professor at the University of Maryland who committed suicide before going to trial on prostitution charges. Palfrey was found dead by her 76 year old mother in the storage shed behind her mother's Florida trailer. She was 52.