As a four-time mom, I used to dream – actually fantasize – about spending time in a bathroom by myself …

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America has a staggering budget deficit of $1.6 trillion. It is fighting two wars on the other side of the planet. It has apocalyptic public debt of more than $12.5 trillion, which, according to the U.S. National Debt Clock, increases $3.87 billion a day. Wall Street has been in the hands of snake oil salesmen we don’t trust with Yale and Harvard degrees. The U.S. auto industry came close to collapse and Toyota seems to be trying.

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It’s been fun watching the national press cover Our Governor – Our Man Mitch. They make observations that many of us locals take for granted. Or if we made them, his press people would bar us at the door. For instance, in a recent Politico article entitled “Mitch the Knife,” long-time GOP operative and Crown Point native Mary Matalin noted that our governor has a “giant brain” and “steely courage.” When I heard this description, I kept thinking back to the day when our governor called Speaker B. Patrick Bauer a “car bomber” (still one of my favorite moments during this governorship).

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How to properly care for trees and the best ways to mulch around these living creatures.

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If I had tried to concoct a more bizarre scenario than the one a little more than a week into the post-Evan Bayh era, I don’t think I could do it. Hoosier politics have entered the twilight zone with maybe some David Lynch video and a soundtrack by John Mellencamp thrown in for good measure.

In the early days of my career as a columnist, I watched a young Indiana secretary of state named Evan Bayh enter office only to find a mess. As the state’s chief elections officer, he had to preside over a Congressional and two legislative recounts in Northern Indiana.

I would like to say I do not smoke because I realize it is a harmful and life-threatening habit that is disgusting and extremely addictive. But the truth is, I don’t smoke because I never figured out how to smoke.

Late on the afternoon of Groundhog Day, U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh was meeting with a group of Hoosiers in his Washington office discussing the green economy. As the meeting broke up, Bayh quipped, “Now I’ve got to go deal with a German ambassador.”

In the next two weeks, Coats will use his network to attain the 4,500 signatures needed for certification by Feb. 19. If he does, Coats will almost certainly edge out State Sen. Marlin Stutzman, Don Bates Jr., former Congressman John Hostettler and Tea Party revolutionary Richard Behney to take the Republican nomination for the right to challenge Sen. Bayh.

We are not seeing any “1.19.13″ bumper stickers – yet, but at the end of President Obama’s first year at the White House, he is receiving a stinging rebuke from the most liberal state in the union with the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate.

I didn’t know Albanians were into human trafficking, although I’ll admit that I know very little about Albania in general. In fact, all I know on it comes from an old “Cheers” episode…

The best Happy New Year greeting I can offer is, “May you have a great year and not end up a Darwin Award nominee…”

Usually the people of Massachusetts are seen from the Hoosier perspective as outside the norm: the one state that held out against President Reagan’s landslide in 1984 when morning returned to America.
This week, with Americans still in an economic nightmare and no clear end in sight, Hoosier Republicans are telling a vastly different story: The people of Massachusetts are speaking for all Americans.

Scribbles & Giggles – Anytime I tried to have The Talk with my kids, they would get that deer-in-the-headlights look …