RE: BLACK POVERTY, SEN. RON JOHNSON CAN'T SEE THE URBAN FOREST FOR THE TREES
Running for re-election while slyly urging voters to “fire” his Democratic opponent, non-office holder Russ Feingold, Sen. Ron Johnson also has been making big noise in Milwaukee's black neighborhoods,...
View ArticleON HEALTH CARE, SEN. RON JOHNSON'S LYING DOUBLES AND EVEN TRIPLES IN SLEAZY...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) says on his web site that he is a manufacturer -- yes, he is, of lies and misrepresentations. In one heavily run TV campaign ad (see screen-grab, above), the Johnson...
View ArticleFrom my Half-Joking File: IT MIGHT GET TO THE POINT WHERE TRUMP COMES TO TAKE...
On the anniversary of Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht -- a massive, two-day raid on Jews in 1938, America's boastful new breed of proto-fascists (call them orange shirts, since orange is the new brown)...
View ArticleRHETORICALLY GUN-TOTIN' WISCONSIN CONSERVATIVES ALREADY SHOOTING THEMSELVES...
Via my local newspaper today, a sheaf of unintentionally amusing yet morose and dark reports from conservative Republican Wisconsin. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:1. The paper's analysis...
View ArticleTHE POTEMKIN PRESIDENCY
Now that our new president quickly is going rogue, we're going to need a short, handy phrase to describe the new regime. "Trump administration" won't do because it's ambiguous. the administration...
View ArticleA Prize Every Time
I suggest a more precise metaphor describing the Present-dent of the Diss-United States and his sweeping campaign allusions to "so much winning." He's a carnival barkster promising, "A prize every...
View ArticleMANAFORT DESTINY
When they don't have a winning hand, poker players often resort to bluffing their way through the betting. But the bluff, as any good card player knows, has to be believable to have any chance of...
View ArticleOverlooked evidence: White House's shifting sands on immigration ban rationale
SHIFTING SANDS: THE IMMIGRATION ORDER IS MOOT Overlooked in the continuing saga of our Present-dent’s messed-up executive order banning immigration from selected Muslim-majority countries: One of his...
View ArticleWHAT WE REALLY NEED IS INDEPENDENCE FROM CRAPPY POLITICS -- LIKE OUR COLONIAL...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's deferred action on a sensible, reformed federal immigration system that's fair and thoughtful was exposed nationally over the weekend, but if you were a casual viewer of...
View ArticleTHE "STRAWBERRY BUSINESS" REDUX: PRESIDENT SCOOP IMITATES ART
Every time someone brings up the amusing "two scoops" standard pertaining to this nation's preznit, I flash right back to 1954 and "The Caine Mutiny," the excellent film version of Herman Wouk's great...
View ArticleGUNS & CARS: Cybernetic devices increasingly disrupt democracy, alter human...
Cybernetics is the rather young and interdisciplinary science of communication and control theory. It is concerned especially with the comparative study of so-called automatic control systems, such as...
View ArticleEXTREMELY SITUATIONAL REPUBLICANS (Part MDCCCXLII)
Former FBI Director James Comey: Hillary Clinton’s email use was "extremely careless."GOP: "Lock her up!"Justice Department: House Republicans’ vote to release to the public the Devin Nunes memo,...
View ArticleTRUMP'S FIRST AND LAST STATE OF THE UNIOM -- I dozed through, so may recall...
Mr. Speaker Baby-Face, Mr. Vice President Get Me a Coke now because this shithole lectern doesn't have anything suckable, members of Congress if they are Republicans maybe not counting you, Mitch, my...
View ArticleMovement conservatism again mangles meaning of campus speech: Anything goes...
You can't engage in legally defined hate speech without consequence. But now if you're a Wisconsin college professor you can by name decry fellow employees in your institution who try to tamp down hate...
View ArticleA Wisconsin example: Midterms weren't a "blue wave"? Only because of GOP...
Now that the midterm election dust is settling, allow me to kick up a fuss just one more time.Here in Wisconsin, good things happened for Democrats. Every statewide constitutional office (governor,...
View ArticleG.O.P. AND RUSSIA IN 2016: ARM IN ARM AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTERS
Earlier this week, DailyKos staffer Mark Sumner posted on a new report to the U.S. Senate regarding Russian cyberhacking of the 2016 election. In his piece, Sumner recounts how as part of its...
View ArticlePUTIN' ON THE 'RUMP: Making opportunity out of the possibility the preznit...
[Caution: satire ahead. Or is it satire?]The preznit insists on his useless, multi-billion-dollar border wall that Mexico will not pay to build because you and I would, instead. Democrats are fighting...
View ArticleA Prize Every Time
I suggest a more precise metaphor describing the Present-dent of the Diss-United States and his sweeping campaign allusions to "so much winning." He's a carnival barkster promising, "A prize every...
View ArticleMANAFORT DESTINY
When they don't have a winning hand, poker players often resort to bluffing their way through the betting. But the bluff, as any good card player knows, has to be believable to have any chance of...
View ArticleOverlooked evidence: White House's shifting sands on immigration ban rationale
SHIFTING SANDS: THE IMMIGRATION ORDER IS MOOT Overlooked in the continuing saga of our Present-dent’s messed-up executive order banning immigration from selected Muslim-majority countries: One of his...
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