Franke: The Huge Dictionary in the Corner
by Mark Franke One important rule of writing, one I too often break, is to choose words carefully with the intended audience in mind. For example, don’t use a lot of technical jargon if you are not writing for a technical audience. The same goes for using college-level words if your readers do not hold Read the full article…
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Oops, Budgets Require Priorities HERE’S HOW my city is going to meet the challenges of taxpayer-friendly changes in how property taxes are applied: It’s going to pretend nothing happened. The Legislature has reformed the state’s property tax system to provide relief for homeowners and businesses through phased increases in homestead deductions, new tax credits and expanded business Read the full article…
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Millions Gather To Express Total Ignorance About Political System Regarding this weekend’s “No Kings” marches, we cannot do better than the satirical Babylon Bee: “Millions of Americans took to the streets today in order to express to the world their total and absolute ignorance about the political system they live in. “Several major cities including Read the full article…
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The Indiana Daily Student, RIP? “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . .” — First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution THE FIRST AMENDMENT is written as clearly as humanly possible. That won’t matter, of course, Read the full article…
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The End of Race Grifting MASS MEDIA REGULARLY finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion. Readership, please know, is approaching statistical irrelevance. It is understandable then that corporate outfits such as Indianapolis’s Capital Chronicle are leaning heavily on contrived polling to support their points of view. What, for example, do Hoosiers think about redistricting? Without context, it is Read the full article…
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War of the Worlds II A LEARNED PROFESSOR of my acquaintance argues that we have become an “unserious” people. I not been sure how to test his theory — COVID, AOC and the Obama Library being indicative but not decisive. That was until the arrival of 31/ATLAS. I am referring of course to an interstellar object, possibly Read the full article…
