Mr Zorn should copyright "The Indiana Way" for a podcast about how awful politics are in that MAGA state, its history with the KKK, it acting as a source for guns for Illinois, etc., and how it is a perfect place for Kass to live.
It’s actually quite a nice place for anyone to live, as someone who resided in Lowell for five years can attest. The people that live there are unfailingly friendly, helpful, respectful, congenial and polite, and unlike in Illinois, I never once saw anyone in Indiana cast garbage right out the window of their car, and never saw roadsides, parks, or parking lots riddled with detritus. But who needs testimonials like mine when it’s so much easier to smear an entire state just because you don’t approve of how a majority of its residents vote.
I did not smear the state but pointed to its politics, history, and current lax gun laws. How nice a state is it to live in if you are a poor pregnant woman who does not wish to be pregnant? Reminds me of people years ago who pointed to Southern hospitality when Jim Crow reigned and lynching was common.
Yes Indiana is such a terrible state that it has been gaining population each year in recent years, as just about every Midwestern State has with the glaring exception of Illinois. Conversely, Illinois has been experiencing a net population loss of over 100,000 people every year in recent years - the equivalent of a medium-sized city all getting up and leaving! People vote with their feet Michael, and Indiana by comparison looks exceptional compared to illinois.
I agree that "people often read what they want to read", but your sentence seems pretty unambiguous. If the "awful politics", "MAGA state", "history with the KKK", "source for guns for Illinois", or the "perfect place for Kass to live" didn't give you away, the "etc." is kind of telling. :)
You can always read a subtext in anyone's plain statements. I agree "Awful politics "is a statement of opinion. I think their politics are awful and have been for a long time. The next three are statements of fact. I dislike Kass' opinions and articles, does that mean I think that Kass is a terrible person? I don't know the gentleman so cannot say. I don't know all the people in Indiana and agree it has some physical charms, so I would not and did not say they are terrible people or that it is a terrible state.
A challenge with only getting rid of the penny is that prices will still have to be quoted in dollars with two decimal places. This would be a constant reminder that one "pays extra" every time the price rounds up, and there will too many people convinced that price setters work that in their favor. If we eliminate the nickle and penny, then prices can be quoted with one decimal place, making rounding less visible. I have not heard anyone get upset about prices after sales tax get rounded up from a fraction of a penny. The penny is considered an atomic unit of currency. We could potentially shift that to the dime.
That's a good point. We would have to replace quarters with 50 cent pieces.
Of course, it is hard to imagine it ever happening. Who wants to spend their political capital on it? Let's ditch changing clocks every 6 months first.
Round it down to the nearest dime. Retailers get a 1.75% rebate on sales tax collected (at least in Illinois) so they wont even need to lose anything. If there are states that dont do that discount, retailers can just raise prices a couple pennies. They are already doing more than that to cover the 3% that the credit card companies (read big banks) skim off the entire economy.
More interesting Eric is how many Never Have I Ever points do your kids have? Mine in their mid 20’s only have a few points thanks to i) a grandma who never replaced her landline phones and kept her typewriter for playing on and ii) going to overnight camp for many years ( where older counselors exposed them to music on many devices and where they regularly sent postcards and faxes). Oh also their “hipster” friends with a record player. I suspect kids just a few years younger might have more points.
I wonder. If the person shot by Officer Stillman had been a 5’5” 130 lb 18 year old, with a rap sheet and history of violence, would Stillman be under review to lose his job? I strongly suspect the answer is no. I am a bleeding heart liberal, but we need to be realistic about this. It was 2am, in a dark alley. It was known the suspect had a gun and it had been fired. Stillman had a split second to make a decision that might cost him his life or the suspect his life. I’d make the same choice he did. The fact that it turned out to be a 13 year old who tossed his gun while he turned around should not change our opinion of how the officer should have reacted.
So with rounding up or down--does the business where transaction took place get the extra, um, cents. They will round up right.
Zorn-looking very Biden-like on Mincing!
Enjoyed hearing about the John Hartford music and story-thx for link to see more. An icon in our Forgottonian part of the state. Saw him at an early 80's fest outside Dickson Mounds Museum near Lewistown IL with other fun players and special guest, a teenaged state fiddle champion, Allison Krauss. She started recording at 14.
Yes, I think Twitter go bye bye as well and will miss the tweet contest!
One only needs to look at the recent murder of Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso to understand and perhaps put themselves in Officer Stillman's shoes. If there is a measure of time less than a "split second", that would be the amount of time officers have to make a decision that if made incorrectly could mean his or her own death. From what we know in this case it's pretty clear that Adam Toledo was running away with a gun in his hand. A gun that had recently been fired, whether at someone or not. The outcome was awful, but the officer's actions should be understood and judged in full context.
I originally come from the east coast where I regularly used the word dibs. We called dibs to use the sandlot where we played baseball. We called dibs to be the team to get up at bat first. We called dibs on where we would sit in a car. We called dibs on who could use the bathroom first.
However I never heard the word in relation to a parking space, that I think is unique to Chicago.
I learned "dibs" in the backyards, quiet streets, and schoolyards of a Seattle suburb before moving to Chicago when I was 12. Since "dibs' with respect to street parking is much less common in Hyde Park, Kenwood, and South Shore, where I've mainly lived since then, than in Avondale on the Northwest Side, where I worked for 22 years, I've long thought of parking dibs as a peculiarly North and Northwest Side habit, not a city-wide phenomenon. Do any West, Southwest, or fellow South Siders care to confirm or contradict that impression? Happy to learn more!
I think it has been slowly fading out over the past 20 years. I lived on the NW side for 11 years and parking got more challenging in that time. The idea of dibs is a reward for shovelling out a spot. But then I would see people put a chair out when their was just a dusting of snow. Abuses like that combined with population turnover and people lose tolerance for it.
Good analysis on the Toledo shooting. Another factor: if the guy known to have a gun turns around towards the cop, the police officer already has to have made the decision to fire. If he waits to see if the gun is still in the potential shooter's hand, the officer can be scheduled for the teary funeral.
Thanks for the link to the article written by Dave Zirin about Caitlin Clark. He really hits the nail on the head. Clark's response to the situation couldn't have been handled better. She had the opportunity to become basketball's version of Kyle Rittenhouse but chose a different path. Good for her.
Your mini-bio of John Hartford and his death from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2001, reminded me of how far many medical treatments have progressed since then. I don't know the particulars of his or Liam Hendriks' experience with the disease but the fact that the latter may pitch again this season is truly remarkable.
A couple of thoughts. I grew up in the 9th Ward in the 1960s. Dibs for parking spots is older than that. Chicago politics? It's not even close to as interesting as it used to be. I had relatives that were Cook County court bailiffs. They did little for paychecks but did good ward work. I failed to get a youth job at Palmer Park because I could not list a political sponsor on the application. Ah, most of you are just too young to remember the good old days.
Mr Zorn should copyright "The Indiana Way" for a podcast about how awful politics are in that MAGA state, its history with the KKK, it acting as a source for guns for Illinois, etc., and how it is a perfect place for Kass to live.
It’s actually quite a nice place for anyone to live, as someone who resided in Lowell for five years can attest. The people that live there are unfailingly friendly, helpful, respectful, congenial and polite, and unlike in Illinois, I never once saw anyone in Indiana cast garbage right out the window of their car, and never saw roadsides, parks, or parking lots riddled with detritus. But who needs testimonials like mine when it’s so much easier to smear an entire state just because you don’t approve of how a majority of its residents vote.
I did not smear the state but pointed to its politics, history, and current lax gun laws. How nice a state is it to live in if you are a poor pregnant woman who does not wish to be pregnant? Reminds me of people years ago who pointed to Southern hospitality when Jim Crow reigned and lynching was common.
Yes Indiana is such a terrible state that it has been gaining population each year in recent years, as just about every Midwestern State has with the glaring exception of Illinois. Conversely, Illinois has been experiencing a net population loss of over 100,000 people every year in recent years - the equivalent of a medium-sized city all getting up and leaving! People vote with their feet Michael, and Indiana by comparison looks exceptional compared to illinois.
I wish them well and hope their moves will improve the policy situation in Indiana.
Sigh, I did not write that Indiana is a "terrible state," but then people often read what they want to read.
I agree that "people often read what they want to read", but your sentence seems pretty unambiguous. If the "awful politics", "MAGA state", "history with the KKK", "source for guns for Illinois", or the "perfect place for Kass to live" didn't give you away, the "etc." is kind of telling. :)
You can always read a subtext in anyone's plain statements. I agree "Awful politics "is a statement of opinion. I think their politics are awful and have been for a long time. The next three are statements of fact. I dislike Kass' opinions and articles, does that mean I think that Kass is a terrible person? I don't know the gentleman so cannot say. I don't know all the people in Indiana and agree it has some physical charms, so I would not and did not say they are terrible people or that it is a terrible state.
Our big city is much larger than their big city, that's the main difference between states:
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/illinois
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/indiana/president
A challenge with only getting rid of the penny is that prices will still have to be quoted in dollars with two decimal places. This would be a constant reminder that one "pays extra" every time the price rounds up, and there will too many people convinced that price setters work that in their favor. If we eliminate the nickle and penny, then prices can be quoted with one decimal place, making rounding less visible. I have not heard anyone get upset about prices after sales tax get rounded up from a fraction of a penny. The penny is considered an atomic unit of currency. We could potentially shift that to the dime.
Isn't this a problem with the quarter as well? Keep the nickel and ditch the pennies.
That's a good point. We would have to replace quarters with 50 cent pieces.
Of course, it is hard to imagine it ever happening. Who wants to spend their political capital on it? Let's ditch changing clocks every 6 months first.
Round it down to the nearest dime. Retailers get a 1.75% rebate on sales tax collected (at least in Illinois) so they wont even need to lose anything. If there are states that dont do that discount, retailers can just raise prices a couple pennies. They are already doing more than that to cover the 3% that the credit card companies (read big banks) skim off the entire economy.
More interesting Eric is how many Never Have I Ever points do your kids have? Mine in their mid 20’s only have a few points thanks to i) a grandma who never replaced her landline phones and kept her typewriter for playing on and ii) going to overnight camp for many years ( where older counselors exposed them to music on many devices and where they regularly sent postcards and faxes). Oh also their “hipster” friends with a record player. I suspect kids just a few years younger might have more points.
I wonder. If the person shot by Officer Stillman had been a 5’5” 130 lb 18 year old, with a rap sheet and history of violence, would Stillman be under review to lose his job? I strongly suspect the answer is no. I am a bleeding heart liberal, but we need to be realistic about this. It was 2am, in a dark alley. It was known the suspect had a gun and it had been fired. Stillman had a split second to make a decision that might cost him his life or the suspect his life. I’d make the same choice he did. The fact that it turned out to be a 13 year old who tossed his gun while he turned around should not change our opinion of how the officer should have reacted.
.......Or if the shot that came from that gun in Adam Toledo's hand actually hit its intended target and that person also died.
So with rounding up or down--does the business where transaction took place get the extra, um, cents. They will round up right.
Zorn-looking very Biden-like on Mincing!
Enjoyed hearing about the John Hartford music and story-thx for link to see more. An icon in our Forgottonian part of the state. Saw him at an early 80's fest outside Dickson Mounds Museum near Lewistown IL with other fun players and special guest, a teenaged state fiddle champion, Allison Krauss. She started recording at 14.
Yes, I think Twitter go bye bye as well and will miss the tweet contest!
One only needs to look at the recent murder of Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso to understand and perhaps put themselves in Officer Stillman's shoes. If there is a measure of time less than a "split second", that would be the amount of time officers have to make a decision that if made incorrectly could mean his or her own death. From what we know in this case it's pretty clear that Adam Toledo was running away with a gun in his hand. A gun that had recently been fired, whether at someone or not. The outcome was awful, but the officer's actions should be understood and judged in full context.
Love him or hate him, calling John Kass an "Indiana man" in pursuit of "The Chicago Way" is like calling Michael Jordan a Washington Wizard.
Kind of the point, no?
HaHa. Haters gonna hate...
Get rid of the dime, too. And probably the quarter and paper dollar, too.
I originally come from the east coast where I regularly used the word dibs. We called dibs to use the sandlot where we played baseball. We called dibs to be the team to get up at bat first. We called dibs on where we would sit in a car. We called dibs on who could use the bathroom first.
However I never heard the word in relation to a parking space, that I think is unique to Chicago.
I learned "dibs" in the backyards, quiet streets, and schoolyards of a Seattle suburb before moving to Chicago when I was 12. Since "dibs' with respect to street parking is much less common in Hyde Park, Kenwood, and South Shore, where I've mainly lived since then, than in Avondale on the Northwest Side, where I worked for 22 years, I've long thought of parking dibs as a peculiarly North and Northwest Side habit, not a city-wide phenomenon. Do any West, Southwest, or fellow South Siders care to confirm or contradict that impression? Happy to learn more!
I think it has been slowly fading out over the past 20 years. I lived on the NW side for 11 years and parking got more challenging in that time. The idea of dibs is a reward for shovelling out a spot. But then I would see people put a chair out when their was just a dusting of snow. Abuses like that combined with population turnover and people lose tolerance for it.
Good analysis on the Toledo shooting. Another factor: if the guy known to have a gun turns around towards the cop, the police officer already has to have made the decision to fire. If he waits to see if the gun is still in the potential shooter's hand, the officer can be scheduled for the teary funeral.
Any thoughts on what’s taking Biden so long to have DeJoy removed as Post Master General?
Thanks for the link to the article written by Dave Zirin about Caitlin Clark. He really hits the nail on the head. Clark's response to the situation couldn't have been handled better. She had the opportunity to become basketball's version of Kyle Rittenhouse but chose a different path. Good for her.
Your mini-bio of John Hartford and his death from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2001, reminded me of how far many medical treatments have progressed since then. I don't know the particulars of his or Liam Hendriks' experience with the disease but the fact that the latter may pitch again this season is truly remarkable.
Very little of NPR’s funding comes from the government. By which I mean there is a certain amount; however, they do have it relatively under control.
I appreciate the clarification,
Yours etc.
Eric Zorn in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.
Your subscribers are wrong. The tweet about true happiness is classic.
A couple of thoughts. I grew up in the 9th Ward in the 1960s. Dibs for parking spots is older than that. Chicago politics? It's not even close to as interesting as it used to be. I had relatives that were Cook County court bailiffs. They did little for paychecks but did good ward work. I failed to get a youth job at Palmer Park because I could not list a political sponsor on the application. Ah, most of you are just too young to remember the good old days.