What if you had a House of Representatives–and nobody wanted to lead it? That is the scenario shaping up in Congress this week as the assumed front-runners for Speaker of the House drop out of the race–and the most-qualified candidates refuse to get in the running. If this keep up, Mike Rowe will end up…… READ MORE
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Just Chillax, People
Sometimes I’m a bit embarrassed by what we have to report as “news”. One example the past few days has been the near panicked response of people here in the Fox Valley to routine flights of military aircraft over our cities. Last Sunday’s flyover of four F-16 fighters in Appleton was a pretty cool tribute…… READ MORE
Exquisite Torture
Some call it the “Last Great Story In Sports”–the Chicago Cubs ending more than 100-years of futility and finally winning a World Series. There is great optimism among Cubs fans that this could be the year that the team finally ends all of the curses and gives them their long awaited title. But all of…… READ MORE
The Worst of the Worst
In “honor” of Matt Williams being fired by the Washington Nationals–and Joe Philbin being let go by the Miami Dolphins–yesterday, The Sporting News posted a list of the worst managers in the history of each Major League Baseball Franchise. I thought it would be kind of fun to do that for each of the major…… READ MORE
Think Pink….OR ELSE!!
You may have noticed during the NFL games on Sunday that the league is in its annual “Pink Out” for breast cancer awareness. Players are wearing pink gloves, pink sweatbands, pink towels and even pink shoes. There are pink ribbons stamped on the balls and painted on the fields. National anthems are being sung by…… READ MORE
Will This Be the One?
The question many were asking following yesterday’s incident in Oregon was “Will this finally be the mass shooting that leads to meaningful gun control legislation?” It’s actually the same question that was asked after the previous mass shooting and the mass shooting before that and the mass shooting before that. And as always, the answer is:…… READ MORE
Watching this movie may make you puke
Will this movie make you physically sick? CNN’s Jeanne Moos wonders whether “The Walk” will make you woozy.… READ MORE
Stars offer an intern’s guide to making a movie
Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Nancy Meyers give tips on how directors need to treat actors from the set of “The Intern”.… READ MORE
Pawn Sacrifice
The next time members of the Oshkosh Common Council want to go on a diatribe about big box retailers and other corporations (and then spend 15-minutes at their next meeting backtracking from those comments by saying that phrases like “they are like boa constrictors” and “I would never do business with Time Warner Cable” were…… READ MORE
Six Months Into the Darkness
Earlier this week, I made my first batch of chili for the season. It’s my concession to the end of warm summer days spent out at the grill making burgers, brats, steaks, chops, chicken and pretty much everything else every night. Now it’s on to the “winter diet” of heartier fare like chili, meatloaf and…… READ MORE
