Love won... again, please | Rose
Crusading lawyer Dan Canon has decided to run for Indianas 9th Congressional District in 2018. Finally, a Democrat who wont water down progressive ideas in hopes of winning GOP votes. Canon has a long record of championing civil rights, but he may be best known for helping win the fight for marriage equality. The Republican incumbent is a wealthy, carpetbagger from Tennessee. The Indianapolis Star said he spent nearly $4 million with his father to win in the Republican-leaning district.
Check, please (yourself) | Thorn
West End restaurants are too busy filling a community need in a poverty-stricken area with violence and crime to be the type of businesses that are focused on aesthetic, so you wont find a lot of reclaimed wood or polished subway tiles ... Or so said a front-page story in The Courier-Journal, insulting hipsters and The West End simultaneously.
Click unwholesome | Absurd
Speaking of odd CJ news judgment: The top headline on its website last Wednesday was Yes, your grandmother is having sex. And in the sports section was a brief on that... er, sport competitive eating!
Firejerks | Thorn
Maybe when Dan Canon wins (see above), he can push Indianas officials to ban the sale of those, er... blasted fireworks, so we in Louisville dont have to suffer in the days leading up to and away from July 4. Here is a photo by Aron Conaway of the remains of just one military-grade fusillade in Portland.
Giving and taking chances | Thorn
Gov. Howdy Doody has pardoned 10 people, one convicted of first-degree wanton endangerment. Police said he put a gun in a womans mouth to find out where she had been and who she was with, the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting wrote.