WHAT 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 ArticleTRUMP DISRUPTS SUCCESSFUL 55-YEAR OLD ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM. AND FOR ME IT’S...
Donald Trump has accomplished many things -- sleazy, backwards things that are dismantling much of the functioning U.S. framework for a just and equal society. A new, seemingly small but vital casualty...
View ArticleReturn with us now, as the Supreme Court effectively revises the 3/5ths...
In Thursday’s horrible Supreme Court decision, conservative justices basically opted the federal government out of constitutional issues involving legislative gerrymandering. And in doing that, they...
View Article"Mister Preznit, your next scheduled contact is the International Space...
A few months from now, if the trend continues, we might be reading news dispatches that go something like this:President Trump today urged all member countries of the United Nations to investigate the...
View ArticleMR. STEWART GOES TO WISCONSIN: "IRRESISTIBLE" IS, WELL, IRRESISTIBLE. A FILM...
July 4 was slow, hot, and rather unscheduled, so upon impulse I changed the feel by going to a matinee movie in a real movie theater, for the first time since early spring. While most screens remain...
View ArticleWHATEVER ELSE HAPPENS, THE TRUMP SEQUENCE ENDS WITH ONE WORD: OBLIVION.
Republicans could and did game the system during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, marginalizing and even neutralizing the Constitution's impeachment clause. They voted with one exception to let the...
View ArticleOF CABBAGES AND KINGS: Trump's a pirate, Republicans don't notice or don't care.
We've all heard some Americans talk about being lifelong conservatives from conservative towns, many of them rural. These represent a small but significant plurality of citizens who say they’ve always...
View ArticleTHE BORGIA STICK
It is now reasonable to regard the modern Republican Party as the Borgia Party, after the 15th century Italian family. The difference is that the Borgias were perhaps unfairly maligned, at least in...
View ArticleTRUMP WITHHOLDING LOGIC FROM "ANARCHIST JURISDICTIONS" -- EXCEPT FOR...
You might have noticed the Preznit's hugely selective approach to cities where demonstrations have included isolated violence. He has declared Portland, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Seattle...
View ArticleOpening a new battlefront on Joe Manchin's home turf
I just posted the message below on Sen. Joe Manchin's official website (see link after message). Feel free to log in there yourself and let Machination Manchin know what a counterproductive, useless...
View ArticleKYLE IN WONDERGUNLAND
Just a scared teenager with a military-style assault rifle, a boy who came to Kenosha to do the right thing. That is all, at least if you buy what Kyle Rittenhouse's defense lawyers are selling. Nope,...
View ArticleDoJo RoJo defends his miserable Senate record by projecting onto Wisconsin...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has been running a heavy flight of campaign ads across state TV channels in the past week or so, blaming Democrats and President Biden for high gas prices, deficit...
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