Snow day randomness

By Zach W On December 9, 2009 · 10 Comments · In News, Sports, The Cheddarsphere, Those Kooky Conservatives!

Just a few random thoughts on this snowy/rainy/downright ugly day:

The weather out there is nasty, so if you’re out and about, be careful. As the day gets colder, things are going to freeze up and get even nastier, so try to stay home and enjoy a good book (or a good blog) if you can.
By a 5-0 vote, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors Committee on Innovation/School Reformpassed the communicable disease prevention program, which would allow for the limited distribution of male condoms in many of the city’s public high schools. The proposal will now will go to the full board for final consideration. Personally, I think this is a good idea, because it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that while we might want all our teenagers to be abstinent from sexual activity, it’s simply not realistic.
Tom Haudricourt of theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting the Brewers hot and heavy for left handed starting pitcher Randy Wolf, who had a solid season last year as a member of the starting rotation for the Los Angeles Dodgers. By my estimation Wolf is a solid starting pitcher (and he’s lefthanded, which is surely a bonus), but I can’t help but wonder if his numbers were helped by the fact that he played in Chavez Ravine, which is widely considered a pitchers’ ballpark. At any rate, Wolf would probably be an improvement over the motley crew of starting pitchers the Brewers have at this point in the offseason, so hopefully they’ll get him signed.
Over at “Real Debate” Wisconsin, Fred Dooley has his undies in a bunch over nasty comments supposedly made by liberal readers of his blog, while conveniently ignoring the fact that some of his conservative commenters aren’t immune from vitriolic comments. Apparently, Fred Dooley is a big fan of selective outrage, but I’m willing to bet the “comments from the left” that were so outrageous to Fred didn’t come from the sources he thinks. After all, it’s not very difficult to post as someone else, as we all learned after the Badger Blogger debacle.

Tagged with: Fred Dooley • Milwaukee Brewers • Milwaukee Public Schools

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10 Responses to Snow day randomness

MadCityMan says:

December 9, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Hi Zach,
Happy snow day! You got me on the “Badger Blogger debacle.” This wasn’t one I caught. What’s the story on this?
Paul
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- Zach W says:
  
  December 9, 2009 at 2:08 pm
  
  The gist of what happened is that someone posted some rather nasty comments on the blog using someone else’s online “identity.” The person whose identity was used happens to be capper, a lefty, so of course folks on the right seized on the opportunity to attack those of us from the “hate left.”
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  - capper says:
    
    December 9, 2009 at 9:33 pm
    
    I think it is just Fred looking for attention. Of course, he has a history of doing that sort of thing to other people. Perhaps he’s back on his pain pills.
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    - Zach W says:
      
      December 9, 2009 at 9:56 pm
      
      capper, I couldn’t even begin to speculate on what’s going on over there at “Real Debate” Wisconsin, but I’ll just say that I find it odd that a man of Fred’s high level of integrity would attack liberal commenters for supposedly hateful postings while turning a blind eye while to the hateful comments some of his conservative commenters have made.
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      - capper says:
        
        December 9, 2009 at 9:58 pm
        
        That is truly a perplexing action taken by Mr. Dooley. I am sure that this was a mere oversight, as that he has never shown that kind of hypocrisy before.
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        Zach W says:
        
        December 9, 2009 at 10:08 pm
        
        I’m sure it was just an oversight, and I’m equally sure he’ll rectify the situation.
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        capper says:
        
        December 9, 2009 at 10:11 pm
        
        I am sure you will understand if I choose not to hold my breath for that to happen. He is a very busy man, I’m sure.
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Anon says:

December 9, 2009 at 3:50 pm

I agree with the condom program. If it gets the kids to use them…then I say throw them off of roof tops! I sure hope the girls take advantage of the free condoms too. They (girls) need to make the boys put the condoms on!!
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- Zach W says:
  
  December 9, 2009 at 5:14 pm
  
  Anon, you and I are 100% in agreement. While I’d certainly love to see all teenagers practicing abstinence, we both know an abstinence-only policy simply isn’t realistic. If we know some kids are going to engage in sexual activity, then we’d be irresponsible as adults not to make contraceptives available to them, in the hopes that they’d actually use them.
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Jim says:

December 10, 2009 at 10:54 am

That the pro-life right hates abortion, but also practices that reduce pregnancies that could result in an abortion. No sense.
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