Just when you thought the circus that is the Republican Presidential campaign couldn’t get any more outrageous, the Head Clown–Donald Trump–is taking it to a new level by threatening to boycott Thursday’s debate hosted by Fox News Channel. Trump is threatening to sit out because he thinks moderator Megyn Kelly was “mean to him” when…… MORE
A Jury of My Non-Peers
If I ever commit a murder or other heinous crime, I hope my jury is filled with the people who are demanding “justice” for Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. I want people who come to the courthouse with a pre-conceived notion that law enforcement and prosecutors are crooked and put huge amounts of time and…… MORE
Quid Pro Quo
In his stump speech, Senator Bernie Sanders compares his “free college for all” proposal to the GI Bill. Sanders points out that the huge influx of college educated men and women in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s spurred the unprecedented economic growth of the country in the decades that followed. And while he is…… MORE
It’s All Going According To Plan
The latest sign that the Affordable Care Act “isn’t working” came this week when UnitedHealth announced that it had lost $720-MILLION on plans sold in the Federal and state exchanges. The numbers justified UnitedHealth’s decision to scale back the plans it was offering in the exchanges for 2016–which drew considerable criticism late last year. UnitedHealth…… MORE
Hollywood’s Most “Progressive” Filmmaker
Hollywood is up in arms this month after all of the major acting nominee for this year’s Oscars are all white. It’s actually the second year in a row that no minorities were nominated–leading to the Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite trending for much of the week. It has also led to a boycott of the Oscars…… MORE
Is That Doe In Heat or Desperation?
I always like to chide Liberals for their efforts to preserve archaic public entities like streetcars and the Postal Service–but Conservatives here in Wisconsin are guilty of that as well. Consider the ever-increasing desperation they are acting with in trying to save hunting from becoming a niche activity. It is no secret that fewer…… MORE
Down the Seven Bridges Road
Of all the forms of art, isn’t music the one where you develop the closest bond with the artist themselves? It’s been a rough couple of weeks for fans of Classic Rock–with the deaths of Lemmy KIllmister of Motorhead, David Bowie and then yesterday Glenn Frey of the Eagles. Our “Greatest Hits” station down the…… MORE
How To Ruin Something That Could Have Been Great
I feel bad about hyping the NFL Network’s broadcast of Super Bowl I on Friday night. It really sounded like it was going to be something great–a replay of the “lost broadcast” of the first AFL-NFL Championship game–which had “never been seen since the day of the game” was finally going to be presented in…… MORE
Dinosaurs That Can Actually Read, Write and Add
If you are over the age of 35, your educational experiences were probably the same as mine: days spent on rows of uncomfortable wooden or plastic chairs behind fake wood-topped desks, endless recitation and memorization of facts and figures, lugging around hard-covered textbooks with page after page of black print and few if any pictures along…… MORE
Never Get Too Attached
As much as I enjoy needling Packers fans for their blind and usually over-the-top devotion to the franchise, I appreciate the fact that they will never have to worry about their team packing up and leaving town. Those closets full of Packers t-shirts, Packers sweatshirts, Packers jackets, Packers hats, Packers stocking caps, Packers Zubaz pants,…… MORE
