The Politifest Turns Childish

Legislature? It's A Nursery!

My state's legislature is not quite the whinefest in Wisconsin, but it is bad enough. What a bunch of crybabies! And the governor has only himself to blame for this. The legislature should be confining its issues to the budget and the reapportment of districts alone. But the governor wants the legislature to play with his little toy projects: union restrictions and siphoning of taxpayer dollars into private school tuitions. The minority Democrats, in fleeing to Illinois (a popular destination for minority politicians these days), tell the governor to get stuffed. The governor promises to keep the legislature in session until he gets his lollies.

Anti-Hispanimania

And, just when you think that the business community has the legislature by the expletives, some Real Conservatives are passing a Hispanic persecution law like the one passed in Arizona last year. Wouldn't it be just as effective and less invasive of other people's rights than to cancel the expansion of I-69? That way, there would be no direct route all the way to Mexico; the police would leave our students here at Ball State alone; it would save the taxpayers a whole lot of money; and the business community would be just as outraged. Why? The so-called anti-immigration law is a threat to the cheap labor that businesses desire, because it drives that labor away.

There are conservatives … and there are Conservatives.

Or, if that bill does pass and is signed into law, you might just as well defund and close FilmIndiana, because there is no way on Earth that Hollywood would ever set foot in Indiana again. (Hollywood despises us enough as it is. Otherwise, the old Fairmount High School building would have been restored a long time ago, and we would have been spared the farce of DeanFest 2005.)