The Katrina Disaster Is "Your" Fault
I watched the pictures on my television and was horrified. The City of New Orleans was dying in front of my eyes. The old and the young, the very young, were dying in my living room because they had no...
View ArticleWorry Wart [or not]? w/poll
The news keeps getting worse for GWB and cabal. Even after efforts to prop up his image post-Katrina/Rita, GWB's approval slipped even further into the sub-forty-percent category in the latest NBC/WSJ...
View ArticleJihad
Robert Scherr gives the Bush administration a righteous smackdown on the New York Times bank data article. He states that the Bush administration is engaged in a "jihad on newspapers" that reported the...
View ArticleAccountability My Nass.
Wisconsin republican state representative Steve Nass is demanding accountability from the University of Wisconsin for allowing a University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer to claim the U.S. government...
View ArticleTravel Much Dave?
The Isthmus reports that Wisconsin republican congressional candidate Dave Magnum, trying to demonstrate his light rail transportation policy analysis prowess, explained the reason why he would not...
View ArticleBig Deal.
Wisconsin law professor and blogger Ann Althouse was on Wisconsin Public Radio this morning with Matt Rothschild from the Progressive Magazine to discuss weekly political events. She spewed a few of...
View ArticleBush Not A Human
Last week, Pluto was stripped of her status as a planet. This event overshadowed another conference that received no news coverage. This second conference involved a gathering to consider whether...
View Article"Unity"
Today's front page headline for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reads:"On sad day, Bush seeks to regain unity" The unity that this president squandered on the road of arrogant certainty? Nope. Rather,...
View Article"Of course they do." (Bill Clinton)
Do Republicans want us to be afraid? Chris Wallace asked President Clinton this question September 22, 2006. Mr. Clinton replied: "Of course they do." Republicans tell us that we must be afraid of the...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, There is a Republican Culture of Corruption
Given the incredibly putrid examples of governance provided by Republicans in the last few weeks, I, like many of you, have been in an unpleasant mood. Therefore, maybe I can be forgiven for reworking...
View ArticleNorah, Norah, Norah
Right wing shill and MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell, rattled her tin cup for a promise from Democrats to be nice to George W. if we take over control of congress because the "common good" in her little...
View ArticleFakers
So, Rush Limbaugh showed the world again what a pile of putrid puffness he is with his gutless, cold-blooded, and baseless allegation derived from his heretofore ultra-secret expertise about...
View ArticleTHE PRESIDENT'S PRAISE
As if we needed confirmation, we learned from a classified military chart recently that Iraq is nearing full-blown chaos. Meanwhile, President Bush told us yesterday that he thinks Donald Rumsfeld is...
View ArticleOn Civility
George Will has his undies in a bunch over the recent exchange between George Bush and Jim Webb and spends way too much ink calling the Senator-elect names while decrying the lack of civility of the...
View ArticleDaddy, Let's Trample Some Weeds
There ought to be a rule that conservative Judges should not be allowed to write children’s books. In support of this proposition I give you the "Hot House Flowers."
View ArticleCrappy Awards
Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin will be honored this Friday with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Congress for Racial Equality and Alliance for Marriage.The award is not just for his...
View ArticleSacrifices
December 7th has lived in infamy for America and the world. As I think about this day and its historical significance, I am reminded of another day with similar infamous qualities, September 11th.Both...
View ArticleFolksy (A Rant)
I watched the vice-president debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. She made me think about the fictional Mayberry residents from the Andy Griffith Show who made so many Americans laugh and smile in...
View ArticleDear Mr. President
Inspired by the President's new OFA video about his tax cut "compromise" to OFA members and the OFA request for comments, I prepared and sent a response which, concurrent with my current need for a...
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