We may let ourselves go from time to time, but we sure do know how to clean up for a party:
Indiana political leaders are looking to fast-track sex-trafficking legislation before football fans flood Indianapolis for the Super Bowl.
Gov. Mitch Daniels, Attorney General Greg Zoeller, Logansport Republican Sen. Randy Head and other leaders say they want to arm prosecutors with more tools to combat an expected rise in prostitution that has accompanied the Super Bowl in other cities.
And there's this:
Gov. Mitch Daniels said in a speech Friday that he will push for a smoking ban during the upcoming session of the Indiana General Assembly and that he supports fast-tracking the bill so it's law before the Super Bowl.
Aren't we behaving just like people who don't bother to clean their house for visiting relatives but bring in the maid before the party so perfect strangers think better of them? What, we care more about Hoosiers hiring out-of-town prostitutes than home-grown ones? We worry more about protecting visitors from secondhand smoke than protecting our own people from it?
As long as we in this pathetically-desperate-for-the-good-opinion-of-the-rest-of-the-country mood, maybe we should turn the coming short legislative session into a long one. There's no end of things the sophisticats elsewhere think the rubes in Indiana should do to
