ALL of this! All of it.

Yes, SB native here too, and all of this is what I wish people understood about the place. That it’s not a little bitty university town in the middle of a cornfield, but a much larger community than stats reflect because of the way that SB, Mishawaka (pop 50,000), Granger (pop 30,000) and Elkhart (pop 50,000) all blend…

Yep, but most of the state is more comfortable voting for a black guy over a gay man.

Few policy proposals...? I get that that’s the popular line to regurgitate, but:

Yeah, there was definitely a bunch of that stuff that entered pop culture, but maybe not enough to have had a defining moment? I was a girly little girl and I for sure remember dresses at the stores including a lot of puffed sleeves, lace and high necklines. Also, I remember a bunch of these activity books and…

Fashion Bug! YES! I remember a slew of these places popping up in strip malls in the early-mid ‘90's - Dress Barn, Fashion Bug, Dots, Maurices, Chico’s, Deb - and they all seemed to have a vaguely similar vibe, but scaled up or down for occasion or price. Chico’s and Marices were on the higher end price-wise, Fashion…

What this outpouring of abortion stories has highlighted is the yawning gap between the power of narrative and how little actual power we wield, a gap that can only be narrowed through collective action.

Same thing here in Indiana. I know we’re next.

Literally overnight, I have seen social media groups moved to secret spaces and an underground railroad of access and volunteers suddenly organize. I guess the fight begins under cover of night, in the same way that these fucking heinous bills were written.

I definitely think that this is beginning to change. My niece is turning 18 in June and the first thing she wants to do is register to vote. I have friends whose kids are of similar age and that’s something I keep hearing about. They are watching this country devolve into a fucking dumpster fire, just like the rest of…

Oh, see - all of that is information that I didn’t have. I am a former resident and I keep up with SB news via the Trib online, but I admittedly have not been following this situation as closely as you clearly have. I get annoyed at the incredibly topical treatment that writers here give to more serious subjects - it…

Brad Chadsworth: it’s like Chad to the 10th power.

And event then, the longevity of the scam is limited. Just ask Paul Manafort.

From Wikipedia on the property:

I’ll give you that, but were many of us doing anything more “real” or important while in high school or college? I grew up broke as fuck, but I don’t think that my McDonald’s job was necessarily time better spent than what this cat was doing with his summer in 1998. And I don’t begrudge him any of that, either.

Mayor Pete is 100% Grade-A Lake Michigan intellectual and I am here for all of it. I knew so many of these Montessori-reared kids who inexplicably finished high school with a 4.2 GPA, took fencing classes and participated in Boy Scouts from K-12th grade because they actually liked it, but would read the encyclopedia…

Brought to you by the same writer who gave us this equally hard-hitting piece:

His dad chaired the English dept. at Notre Dame, so he was probably destined for feigned Ulysses fandom. :D

Oh, I do have a soft spot in my heart for old footage of public access shows. Those things used to be either the sort of thing that would put you to sleep, or unintentional comedy gold - no in-between.

Guys, guys, guys - let me remind you that this is the state that gave the country Mike fucking Pence. South Bend is a Chicago-influenced Democratic stronghold in a state that is otherwise red to the core (aside from Indianapolis and a few college towns), and BATHED in Koch $$. Buttigieg could win a congressional seat,…