Saturday Miscellany: How Dems Should Advertise, Pot In Indiana, ECI Emerging Economy, St Augustine,

 Just some things read and listened to this morning:

New group encourages Hoosiers to contact legislators about regulating, taxing marijuana

The group is pushing Indiana lawmakers to regulate and tax marijuana the same way they do alcohol and tobacco.

Their efforts have the backing of some prominent Republicans, including their spokesperson Joe Elsener, who's the former head of the Indiana Republican Party and chair of Marion County's GOP.

“By embracing a smart and evidence-based approach that prioritizes public health, safety, and economic opportunity, we give Hoosiers the access that they deserve and demand,” Elsener said in a press release about the organization.

East Central Indiana Emerging as Hub for Training Indiana’s Healthcare Workforce

The transition from a heavy manufacturing-based economy requires not only new industries but also a shift in local identity. However, if there’s one thing East Central Indiana has proven time and again, it is its resilience and commitment to building a bright future for residents. That’s why we couldn’t be prouder to support our region’s growing identity as a statewide leader in expanding the healthcare workforce pipeline.

This region has a proud, century-long history of training healthcare professionals, particularly physicians and nurses. Institutions across East Central Indiana have played an essential role in meeting Indiana’s healthcare needs by producing skilled professionals who serve communities locally and across the state.

R.A. Markus, historian of the secular 

For presenting, in effect, the ‘radical’ Augustine as a forerunner to modern liberalism, Markus was heavily criticised both in his own day and ever since. And, of course he was up to something much more sophisticated than just that. Still, even in its crudest form his argument has much to recommend it, not only as it touches on history and theology but also in relation to modern political theory. If liberalism flows from an intense scepticism about the scope of human knowledge – as the writings of Hume and Smith would lead us to believe, and as Hayek most famously argued – then Augustine, or at least Markus’ Augustine, can be counted among the thinkers who made liberalism possible. And we may yet be riveted by Markus’ notion that our concept of the ‘secular’, so ubiquitous in modern life, first appeared in perhaps the least likely of places, in a momentary flash at the end of antiquity.

Oh, what if the Democrats had not a stick up their ass and had a willingness to actually fight: 

Some old movies for you:

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