A couple of weeks ago Andrea Neal, who is, I suppose, Indy’s version of a local Weekly Standard columnist, offered a propaganda piece about “Right-to-Work” legislation in the HT. She begins with some “headlines” that purport…
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A Talent for Business, From Parables to Lemonade Stands
I was saying to our illustrious Web Content Editor the other day, “It’s sad that it took me until age 40 to give a shit about the way human life is organized and managed in…
Hoarding Cash While Sustaining Joblessness: Corporate Designs on Cheap Labor
Today’s HT (and yesterday’s, and the day before that…) set me off. Look: Unemployment rate up in Monroe County, state Fact check: Recession is culprit in high US debt Recession taking toll on US children…
Evaluating Valuation: Millions for Business and Games, Hundreds for Kids
I will give props where due even if what I’m giving props about is unintentional. In today’s HT on page A3 there are two stories headlined and their juxtaposition will tell you all you need…
Politicians, Corporations, Unions…In None Do We Trust
First, who’s this “we”? I don’t know…”Americans”? Is there such a thing? So, on the heels of recent cursory research into the salaries of our local major liberal arts university as well as a report…
An Illegitimate Public Discourse – Or, Liars Everywhere
Bear with me on this…it’s a simple point and one I’ll keep making as The Errant keeps “heralding the unwritten”: Where will we find truth regarding our world–the world that is factual and verifiable? Politics…
New Yorker Spins a Grimm Fairy Tale: The Monster Hunt for Osama
In the mood for a good monster story, or tired of reading good journalism? (Cue laugh track.) I highly recommend picking up this week’s New Yorker for some good, old fashioned propaganda. In the latest…
A Big Secret: Democracy Doesn’t Exist
Listen, come closer…closer…that’s it. I have a secret. Democracy does not exist. Why not? So many reasons! But let’s focus on Democracy first by defining it and then use a recent national example of something…
Unrepresentative–HT Sides with GOP While Our Community Suffers
Opening the Herald Times this morning brought frustrating political and fiscal news as well as a deeply wrong-headed editorial. Where to begin? Local Income Tax Revenue to drop in ’12: well, there’s a shocker though…
Alone in America
Yesterday a Bloomington man with a long criminal history took his wife hostage by holding a gun to her head and walking with her down Rogers Street. He was apparently agitated enough, shaking his gun…