Happy Festivus!! Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances–where I list all the ways that you have disappointed me this year. I’VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!! DANGEROUS ROUNDABOUTS!! The City of Oshkosh has realized that drivers are just too dumb to understand the rules of…… READ MORE
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Going Rogue
Allow me to be a Star Wars geek today…. Last weekend I went to see the new Star Wars movie Rogue One. I’m not going to give you a full review or give out any spoilers here–but I will tell you it’s a great addition to the franchise and features a darker tone that…… READ MORE
Bowl Blowout
I always throught the collapse of the ludicrous college bowl structure would come from ESPN no longer being able to find gullible corporations to sponsor the myriad of meaningless games that exist strictly to give them live content at this time of year. The two bowl games played this week were sponsored solely by the Chambers…… READ MORE
How Hillary Actually Lost
Now that the Electoral College has done its job without changing their votes last minute and flipping the election, we can take a serious look at how Hillary Clinton managed to blow one of the easiest layups in political history. Politico.com examined one battleground state–Michigan, which had been one of the bluest of the blue…… READ MORE
Don’t Take Away My Public Adulation!!
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…… READ 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…… READ 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…… READ 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…… READ 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…… READ 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…… READ MORE
