(Warning, this blog post contains language and themes that might not be suitable for more sensitive readers.) My parents raised five boys and when we were old enough to start dating, they gave us some frank, blunt advice, “don’t let the little head do the thinking for big one.” For most of us it worked […]
I caught a lot of grief recently for a column that I wrote recently arguing that local law enforcement should use its own version of “stop and frisk” as part of a strategy to address Indianapolis’ growing murder problem. I was accused of being insensitive to the black youth who would likely be the targets […]
This weekend the Lovely Mrs. Shabazz and I are celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary. And while I am not the most religious person on the planet, I thank God Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis wasn’t the person who issued our marriage license back in 2009, because she would have likely told us no because it […]
My Democratic friends have been having a field day going after the Pence administration over the Wildcat Creek Bridge. As you know the bridge was shut down after workers, who were expanding the bridge, hit an artisan well thus the closure. INDOT expects the bridge to be open by the middle of September. However, because […]
Be honest, whether you like the First Church of Cannabis (TFCC) or not, you know you were just waiting to see or hear reports of someone lighting up and getting arrested and then mayhem ensuing. I was. No such luck. I attended the inaugural service of the TFCC and sans the marijuana, it was […]
From all accounts, Saturday’s Indy Pride parade was a roaring success and supporters have the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to thank for it. That’s right, RFRA was at the core of your success. Think about it, because of the RFRA controversy more than 100,000 people showed up to express their support for equality and […]
If her campaign rollout last week was any indication, Glenda Ritz has a lot of work to do if she wants to be Governor of Indiana. Leading up to the announcement, Ritz and her team played coy about what they were doing, until they made the amateur mistake of releasing their letter of support for […]
When Indiana social conservative activists Monica Boyer and Micah Clark went nuts over a simple welcome letter by Governor Mike Pence to Indy Pride, I knew we had gone down the rabbit hole and fell straight through the looking glass. The letter Pence sent was pretty standard stuff, granted in the post-RFRA world everything takes […]
This weekend will mark a historic milestone in human achievement and accomplishment, it’s my birthday. However, instead of engaging in the usual shameless self-promotion that marks the Abdul existence the other 364 days of the year, I decided to give you a gift. That gift is an explanation of how I became me. No I […]
Well, it’s not every day I get asked to leave a political event where the public is invited, but Sunday was one of those days. The Joe Hogsett Mayoral campaign held a “jobs fair” at Marian University. The point of it was for Joe to go into more details about his plans to put a […]
