Fallen Evansville Firefighter

Ohio School Shooting

Why There Will Be No Intervention in Syria

Indiana Dems Look Wistfully to Weinzapfel

Story in last week's Courier and Press.

The End of Kodak

A sad but perhaps inevitable tale.

The Girl Scouts Anger Indiana Republicans

More nonsense from our friends at the Indiana State House. The lunatics truly have taken over the asylum.

How Politics Works

Why the Republicans Focus on Social Issues

Dick Lugar, Regular Hoosier, Does Not Live in Indiana

Evansville Fire Captain Suspended in Political Dispute

Part of the story is here...

Rangers; Why I Just Can't Quit you

Rationally I have known since I became an adult that my team is, and always has been, a shining example of intolerance, bigotry, smugness, entitledness, conservatism, snobbery, racism and bullshit of a thousand hues. And now it turns out that they haven't been paying their taxes - for years and years. In an important sense, every game they have won during that time needs to have an asterisk placed next to it. Every win bought with stolen money. It stinks. I should quit.

But this was the team that my Dad watched in the 1930's and 40's, standing on the Ibrox terraces with his big brothers John and Donald, cheering on legends like George Young and  Tiger Shaw [a wonderful gentleman who I was able to meet as a wee boy in 1977]. The team whose successes he secretly smiled at in later years as a Free Presbyterian minister who wasn't supposed to even think about worldy vanities like football.

This was the team that I supported as a child, despite the fact that they never really won anything between 1966 and 1976. The team I followed in college, mostly at away games at the great cathedrals of football that were Easter Road, Tynecastle and Brockville in the 1980s. Getting crushed half to death at that bend you had to go round to exit the away end at Easter Road [a frightening prequel to what happened at Hillsborough], chased outside Celtic Park, and a hundred other stupidities.

You don't get to quit on that.
Though the Streets be broad or narrow. Follow we will.

Glasgow Rangers go into Administration

"What I Really Do" Facebook Meme

Evansville Smoking Ban Passes, with Exception for Casino

At last, a comprehensive smoking ban! Except for the RiverBoat casino. Courier and Press story is here.

The Catholic Church and Contraception

Valentine's Day and Whitney Houston

Culture Wars Flare Up

Republicans and Women

Tough Time for Catholics

Economic Recovery and the 2012 Election

Evansville Democrats: This Time it's a Bar Fight

Local Republicans are laughing all the way to the bar. Part of the story is here....

Patriots Throw Away Superbowl XLVI

Komen and Planned Parenthood

Indianapolis is Peyton Manning's City

Komen Cuts Planned Parenthood Grant Money

The Republican Primary and Superbowl XLVI

Peyton Manning and Tom Brady

These boys with their Mississippi roots and N'Orleans connections - you telling me they don't know a little Voodoo?

Indiana Senate and Creationism in Schools Continued

Feds to Discipline Those Who Retaliated Against Dover Whistleblowers

Great to see the Feds protect whistleblowers. Meanwhile Bradley Manning, pursued by Obama, faces the possibility of a death sentence if convicted.