It used to be very easy to follow Wisconsin Badgers Football when I was younger. Most home games started at 1:00 Saturday afternoons at Camp Randall Stadium. If they played one of the schools in the Eastern Time Zone that kickoff would usually be at noon. And watching games on TV meant waiting until 10:00…… MORE
Making Your Vote Count
A number of people sent me a link this week to the Action Two News story about how ballots with write-in candidates in the race for President “won’t be counted”. It was usually followed with a “See, you are just wasting your vote!”–as most everyone knows that I voted for the person that I actually…… MORE
That Was Ugly
It’s an image that could haunt University of Wisconsin Athletics for years. At Saturday night’s football game between the Badgers and Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium, a fan was spotted wearing a President Obama mask in a prison jumpsuit with a noose around his neck: Nobody around the “fan” seemed particularly upset by…… MORE
Who Are These People?
Have you ever wondered who the “undecideds” are this close to an election day? When polls show a race being 46-to-45% that leaves nine percent of the folks surveyed as not having made up their minds. I will grant you that in a Presidential election like this, where the lesser of two evils appears to…… MORE
Wonder Weapons and Kamikaze
In the waning days of World War II as he huddled in his Berlin bunker, Hitler held out hope that the so-called “Wonder Weapons” developed by his scientists would produce a miracle reversal of fortune for the Third Reich. Hitler thought that the jet-powered Messerschmidt ME-262 would suddenly give the Luftwaffe superiority in the air…… MORE
Campaigning For Profit
When the 2016 Presidential campaign is all said and done, I look forward to the book Donald Trump will publish bragging about how much money he made on the process. The self-proclaimed billionaire kicked off his run for the White House by claiming that he could self-fund his campaign–even though it would be a “major…… MORE
You Can’t Forget What You Never Knew
In what little spare time I have, I like watching shows and reading about history. Of particular interest to me are the wars involving the United States over the years and the strategies that were employed–both successful and those that were failures. Documentarians and historians have had plenty of material to work with in chronicling…… MORE
So Who Has to be Tolerant Here?
It was a Twitter headline that I just had to tap: “Neighbors Complain Madison BBQ Joint Smells Like Meat”. It led me to a Capitol Times article detailing a battle between people living in the Williamson Street neighborhood and a restaurant that serves “real” barbecue. For those who aren’t familiar with what the locals…… MORE
It Will Never Be the Same
The Chicago Cubs are poised to end the longest championship drought in major US sports history this week. After capturing their first National League pennant since 1945 (when most quality major leaguers were off fighting World War II) the Cubs will try to win their first World Series since 1908 (when the legendary, Tinkers to…… MORE
Rout Night
Tonight is the first night of the WIAA High School Football Playoffs. It is also the worst night of High School Football of the year. There will be more blowouts, routs and running clocks in the second half than in any other week of the year. You know why? Because about 3/4’s of the WIAA…… MORE
