tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post251558083521592168..comments2024-03-19T08:23:24.309-07:00Comments on Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes: QUEER AT THE MAIN STREET BARBER SHOPTom Cochrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04046822056852446079noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-57108698380806092702015-04-07T13:57:18.096-07:002015-04-07T13:57:18.096-07:00Your dad sounds like a great guy. Yes, that seems ...Your dad sounds like a great guy. Yes, that seems like the Indiana of reputation, not the one now passing laws that can only be intended to legitimize exclusion. The Geezershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12132213545989946724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-22348871042381025532015-04-04T16:00:32.001-07:002015-04-04T16:00:32.001-07:00Hope so too.
Happy Easter!Hope so too.<br /><br />Happy Easter!Lux G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00557863683608790087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-22464271161845505822015-04-04T11:43:45.413-07:002015-04-04T11:43:45.413-07:00beautiful essay TC ...
what a great man your pop w...beautiful essay TC ...<br />what a great man your pop was!<br />but we all -- you, me, Letterman -- remember the past a bit better than it was.<br />as you know better than most (based on your Emmy award winning investigative reporting of the KKK in the 1980s) there is a strain of nativist know-nothingism that is embedded in the culture of Indiana. And in the period you describe that sentiment was powerfully alive and well at the apogee of County Seat Indiana. <br />The embarrassing stupidity of fringe Republicans here in Indiana will be a long time being repaired. But the truth is that Indiana is a MUCH more tolerant and open place than ever in its history -- which is why this brush with stupidity is even more devastating. Today's front page story in the Indianapolis Business Journal on Bill Oesterle is instructive about the life and times in Indiana which are a-changin' positively. <br /> http://www.ibj.com/articles/52578-for-angies-list-ceo-equality-stand-was-instinctive<br /><br /> ML1050https://www.blogger.com/profile/17591868550406323787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-48535049234280763562015-04-02T21:20:24.436-07:002015-04-02T21:20:24.436-07:00A fine personal essay on how we ought to place hum...A fine personal essay on how we ought to place humanity first, ahead of incidental variations like sexual orientation. I know 2 male couples and 1 female couple raising children who were abandoned at hospitals --and that's in my constricted retirement social circle. My impression? Dads are still dads, even doubledads and doublemoms are moms and kids love their parents and try to boss them around just like kids always have. There are a lot of kids without parents who need these loving and willing people. Do I respect them ? I am awed by them. No state, including Indiana, can afford to turn love out of its borders.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-78333677633407375022015-04-02T21:06:22.337-07:002015-04-02T21:06:22.337-07:00It's interesting to see the religious far righ...It's interesting to see the religious far right start to actually come out and say what they really want to do to the country. The sane part of the country (the west coast and isolated pockets eleswhere) is starting to feel like an island. Should Fish Morehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400586203204886095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-80667822975379679512015-04-02T19:28:12.091-07:002015-04-02T19:28:12.091-07:00Indiana. My Indiana. Indiana. My Indiana. Neal Moorehttp://www.nealmoore.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010559333082508395.post-12835056719547591662015-04-02T16:16:30.319-07:002015-04-02T16:16:30.319-07:00Amen seconded. Some day I'll tell you about th...Amen seconded. Some day I'll tell you about the bachelor farmers from my home state including one in our family.Jagernoreply@blogger.com