Leadership Versus Pandering
Let me begin with a disclosure: Michael Leppert–whose recent blog post I will be echoing/quoting–is a personal friend. I have friends with whom I disagree from time to time, but thus far, I’ve found...
View ArticleRokita Again…
A week or so ago, a reader sent me a private message about a “thin blue line” flag he’d seen displayed in a window of the Indiana Statehouse. It concerned him, because he was aware that the flag was...
View ArticleJust WOW…
It appears that our fearless (okay, feckless) lawmakers have identified a dire threat to America and its children–librarians. The Washington Post recently reported on one of the current...
View ArticlePerception And Reality
Here in Indianapolis, where the candidates for Mayor in this November’s election are spending unbelievable amounts of money on political advertisements (and not just television–You Tube, FaceBook, etc....
View ArticleAn Even Bigger “Big Sort”
I’ve referred previously to the important 2004 book The Big Sort, which documented the way in which Americans have been “sorting” ourselves by choosing to live in areas we find philosophically and...
View ArticleFeeling The Heat, Todd?
Can you stand one more post about Indiana’s infantile Attorney General? (I wouldn’t keep commenting if he didn’t keep pooping in his mess-kit…) A lawyer friend sent me a copy of Rokita’s latest filing...
View ArticleOur Legislative Overlords Strike Again
As I have repeatedly pointed out, Indiana has nothing remotely approaching home rule. Our legislative overlords consider themselves to be arbiters of both state and local decisions, entitling them to...
View ArticleListen To My Friend Morton…
As regular readers of this blog know, Morton Marcus (who comments here from time to time) is a longtime friend with whom I co-authored a recent book on women’s rights, “From Property to Partner.”...
View ArticleNow They’re After The Libraries
The Indiana General Assembly is back in session. This time, mercifully, it’s a short session, but that hasn’t stopped the supermajority from continuing its efforts to turn Indiana into Mississippi. A...
View Article“Makers” Making Hay
Remember Mitt Romney’s division of Americans into the “Makers” and the “Takers”? That division reflected the GOP’s longstanding policy of privileging the privileged. Americans argue a lot about the...
View ArticleThey Aren’t Even Pretending
It’s an election year, and we are already–predictably–being inundated with commentaries exploring the roots of MAGA devotion to a mentally-ill would-be dictator. The punditry digs into sociology,...
View ArticleIs Rokita Even Worth The Pixels?
What is so depressing about living in Indiana these days is the dismal quality of our state government. I’ve frequently posted about what the late Harrison Ullmann accurately called “The World’s Worst...
View ArticleEvidently, The GOP War On Cities Isn’t Limited To Indiana
When the Indiana legislature is in session, residents of urban areas don’t feel safe–and there is ample reason for our angst, as this blog has repeatedly documented. A sad side effect is currently...
View ArticleIndiana’s Autocratic-And Delusional–Legislature
The most positive thing I can say about Indiana’s just-departed legislature is that at least it was a short session. I have yet to address one of the most offensive bills passed by our legislative...
View ArticleThank You, Nikki Kelly!
I have vented several times about the political advertisements being run by candidates vying for their parties’ nominations in Indiana’s upcoming primaries. (Actually “parties’ nomination” is...
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