I must admit, I actually feel sorry for Senator Al Franken today. The Minnesota Democrat is expected to resign in the wake of accusations that he had physical contact with women that they didn’t appreciate before he was elected to the Senate. Yesterday, every Demoratic female Senator turned against Franken–demanding that he quit–even though he…… MORE
Safety Starts With You
The next time someone from the NFL Players Association claims they are “concerned about the health and safety of their members”, I hope Mike McCarthy appears out of nowhere to throw the red “CHALLENGE” flag. We can then go to the replays from just a couple of games this past weekend to show that NFL…… MORE
Wanna Bet?
Imagine being a state lawmaker and ten of thousands of your constituents called you up demanding to be allowed to pay a new tax. And amazingly, the people who are opposed to this new tax are the ones that would never end up paying it anyway. Plus, this new tax would allow the government access to…… MORE
Those Tricky Millenials
So the state is going to spend seven million dollars in a marketing effort to attract more millenials to Wisconsin bolster the workforce. With our older population, we just don’t have enough “youngins” running around here to take over positions at companies. Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation officials think flashy multimedia presentations and cleverly placed pop…… MORE
Important, But Not the Most Important
I’ve heard a lot of sports hosts calling tomorrow’s Big Ten Championship Game the “MOST IMPORTANT GAME IN WISCONSIN BADGERS FOOTBALL HISTORY!!” I’ll grant you that the Badgers would likely clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff with a win over Ohio State and as former Vice President Joe Biden so succinctly said: That’s…… MORE
High Society
I would encourage you to go to the Oshkosh Community Media website and watch the debate in Tuesday night’s Common Council meeting over reducing the fine for possession of marijuana. It will provide you some interesting insight into the growing drug culture not just here in Oshkosh but throughout the United States. That is, once…… MORE
Gaming the System
I have to admit, I failed to understand the real motive behind the Legislature’s decision this fall to eliminate the minimum age for a “mentored” deer hunting license in Wisconsin. I never bought the argument that “if a child isn’t exposed to an activity by the time he or she is eight or nine years old…… MORE
Old School vs New School
You know who has had a pretty good last couple of days? The “old school”, “fake news”, “mainstream media”. You know, the type of reporting that has come under constant attack for the last few years–and who is always going to be “replaced” by the “new media”. Consider the story that broke yesterday that…… MORE
Moving Forward
The news we all expected came down late Wednesday afternoon (in what we call a classic “news dump”–major news late on a day before a holiday or a weekend that allows it to be nearly forgotten by the time everyone gets back into their normal consumption patterns) that Oshkosh Corporation will buy a portion of…… MORE
Fake Motivation
If you watch the Wisconsin-Minnesota football game on Saturday afternoon (as Wisconsin looks to stretch its winning streak against the Golden Gophers to 14 CONSECUTIVE GAMES) you may notice an unusual phrase printed inside the center stripe on the Gophers’ helmets. That phrase is “ROW THE BOAT”. That might not make a lot of sense. …… MORE
