Indiana Blog Review

Storm of the Century of the Week

First-hand accounts of this weekend's storms from Advance Indiana, Torpor Indy, and Scott Tibbs, the latter two discerning the Hand of God.  (Also, puppy pic goodness.)

Intelligent Design battle fizzles

A recent Pennsylvania  federal court's decision against teaching Intelligent Design may have a group in Indiana rethinking its litigation plans, reports Abdul Hakim-Shabazz at Indiana Barrister.

The Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling that booted intelligent design out of the Dover school district has found its way to Indiana. A group that threatened to sue the Hamilton Southeastern School District (HSE) over its refusal to teach intelligent design appears to be calling it quits.

Indiana's First Interstellar Spaceship

Leo Morris reports on Indiana's next great inventor, Huntington's Boris Volfson, who was

awarded Patent No. 6,960,975 for an interstellar spaceship that "will have flux modulators, a superconductive shield around it that bends space-time, and a 'space-time curvature anomaly' that escapes gravity and pushes the ship so fast it can carry a crew to distant stars."

ALSO: Leo notes, bemusedly, this excerpt from a letter to the editor written an Indiana college student:

At first, it could be difficult for Hoosiers to adjust to daylight-saving time. I believe it can be done!

AND: Will [Evan] Bayh join the Borking [of Sam Alito]?