Hoosier lore

The "squeaky wheel" effect:

At least since "12 Angry men," the jury cliche has been the lone holdout for acquittal who stays stubborn and ultimately turns everyone else around. According to an IU study, there may be some truth to it:

Oh, come on, fella. Don't beat around the bush -- say what's really on your mind:

Well, this won't look good on the job resume:

GARY, Ind. -- An anger management instructor was charged with domestic battery after his wife accused him of grabbing and beating her during an argument, police said.

Why wasn't this man in a casino or bingo parlor or at a horseracing park or lottery ticket outlet where he belonged?

Indianapolis metropolitan police arrested a second man they say was running illegal shell and card games during the Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration.

Can you imagine being free this long, even having a daugher who doesn't know about your past, then getting caught?

A Muscogee County inmate who left a work detail 37 years ago is back in custody.
In 1970, Eddie Rias was arrested and sentenced to five years for robbery by intimidation.
Rias was living under another name in Indiana when U.S. Marshalls tracked him down.

Me, either.

The Indianapolis Star lists "9 reasons taxes went through roof." It lists everything except the one thing I woud have put at the top of the list -- governments spent more, which required them to take more of our money. When some of us talk about the institutional (as opposed to deliberate) liberal bias of the press, this is the kind of theing we mean.

We have our attacks of Indy Envy here from time to time, but it's apparently at epidemic levels in northwestern Indiana:

Lake County residents have been hollering since reassessment and the switch to market value about soaring property taxes. That's especially true in North Lake County, where the enormous tax breaks given to heavy industry amplified the property tax problems.

It's good to know that not all our corn will be sacrificed to ethanol and increasing the cost of tortillos in Mexico. Some of it will continue to be quite useful:

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ind -- Bourbon may be synonymous with Kentucky, but its main ingredient is rooted in the farm fields that blanket the southern half of Indiana.

Not so much a bargain:

Barrett agreed to meet the officer at the Holiday Inn Express in Fishers. The officer gave her $140 in exchange for a sex act and she was then arrested. Barrett is charged with solicitation of prostitution and is now out on a $2,500 bond.

Let's see. I can pay $140 for a sex act or kick in another $60 and have someone killed. Look at the photo -- not a tough choice.