UW Oshkosh officials are about to feel the wrath of the Participation Trophy Generation. The decision to cancel Mid-Year Commencement due to a snowstorm has already led to a petition demanding a rescheduled ceremony with full pomp and circumstance–and not just “recognition events” scheduled for late January. The decision to cancel the show Friday…… MORE
Very Bad Math
Among the many accomplishments former Wisconsin Badgers Heisman Trophy winning running back Ron Dayne achieved in his four years in Madison was setting the all-time NCAA rushing record. Dayne racked up 6,397 yards–a record that has stood for 16-years. However, that mark could be broken this weekend, as San Diego State running back Donnel Pumphrey…… MORE
A Classic Overstatement
You know what word of which I apparently no longer know the meaning? “Classic”. I came to realize that this week when reading obituaries and stories about the death of actor Alan Thicke. “Star of the ‘classic’ ’80’s TV sitcom Growing Pains” they all said. I recall watching Growing Pains as a kid–but I had…… MORE
The Fake Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
Now that we have dispelled the notion that hacking of voting machines decided the Presidential election, let’s move on to the next source of blame–Fake News. President Obama, Hillary Clinton and other leading Democrats are claiming that Americans were duped by non-mainstream media sites into voting a certain way in the election–and that steps should be taken…… MORE
After Further Review….
Wisconsin’s Presidential recount is done and as everyone but Green Party candidate Jill Stein expected, there was virtually no change to the results first reported by county clerks around the state on election night and certified by Boards of Canvass a week later. With the $3.5 MILLION that Stein’s contributors wasted on this exercise they…… MORE
When the Solution is the Problem
A couple of weeks ago, The Economist Magazine posted a thought-provoking question on Twitter: If the Earth was dealing with global cooling–instead of global warming–would a strong global plan already be in place to deal with the issue? The logic being that because man evolved in a tropical climate–and not one where our early ancestors…… MORE
Godspeed
If future linguists need an example to put in their on-line dictionaries for the phrase “a life well lived” they may want use John Glenn. The last of the Mercury 7 astronauts died on Thursday at the age of 95–and it would be hard to find someone who may have accomplished more in that time.…… MORE
Street Sense
The belief that Republicans in the State Legislature can “railroad through” anything they want may be challenged next year. There is deep intra-party division developing over how to address the looming shortfall in transportation funding in the next two-year budget. On one side you have Governor Scott Walker, who is placing a premium on campaign…… MORE
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy
In some ways, it’s hard to believe that it has been 75-years since the attack on Pearl Harbor. When I was a kid, that was just part of the “modern history” that we covered in about two days at the end of the of the school year because we had spent entire weeks covering the…… MORE
Inclusive-mas
Retail America is giving us a new “reason for the season” this year: Inclusiveness. I’ve noticed a couple of high-profile ad campaigns that feature little in the way of product promotion and plenty of social messaging instead. The first ad was Apple’s “Frankie’s Holiday” that ran during the Thanksgiving Day NFL football games. …… MORE
