Author: Steve Carlson

Mitch McConnell announced today he’s using his unspent campaign cash to purchase radio ads to be aired across Kentucky urging Kentuckians to get vaccinated. The news comes as Kentucky sees Covid-19 cases rising statewide. In Alabama republican Governor Kay Ivey didn’t mince words at a press conference last week telling…

While the Right does it’s best to keep Tony Fauci at the front of their various print and cable news cycles, from Rand Paul’s accusation that Fauci is responsible for the global Covid-19 pandemic, to rehashes of the times Fauci has corrected himself on mitigation issues such as masking, the…

Dolly Parton’s ” Jolene ” is one of the most iconic songs in the history of country music. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #217 on their list of of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. But apparently not everyone agrees with the song’s narrator who begs Jolene…

Hey gang, below is my entry into National Public Radio’s annual song contest, aka ” Tiny Desk Contest”. The video is rare footage of an irascible and cantankerous recluse in his natural habitat performing a surprisingly tender song at serious odds with his public persona. So if you could find…

Wisconsin’s lead election conspiracist, Janel ” Bamboo ” Brandtjen, recently traveled to Arizona to observe whatever the hell it is that’s going on out there in Maricopa County, and upon her return promptly announced she’d like to see an ” Arizona style audit ” of Wisconsin’s election results, which presumably…

Politico is reporting that India Walton, an unabashed socialist, is poised to become mayor of Buffalo after upsetting four term incumbent Mayor Byron Brown in last night’s Democratic primary. Politico notes that there hasn’t been a socialist mayor of a major American city since Milwaukee’s Frank Zeidler left office in…

It’s official: GOP Assembly Rep Janel ” Bamboo ” Brandtjen has returned from her trip to Arizona and stated she would like to see an Arizona style ” audit ” of Wisconsin’s November election! What can we expect next? We’re going to need a ton of UV lights to screen…

Here’s Joni Mitchell live, with Roger McGuinn and Bob Dylan, at Gordon Lightfoot’s home. What a line-up. What a party that must have been!

After learning that several Wisconsin GOP lawmakers, including Assembly Rep Janel Brandtjen, traveled to Arizona last weekend to observe the so-called ” audit ” of Maricopa County’s election results, (some are calling it a fraudit ), just for the fun of it I Googled ” bamboo brandtjen ” and a…

So I recently returned to scrolling through an ostensibly progressive Facebook page that I had seriously neglected throughout much of the last year or so, the Wisconsin Urban and Rural Progressive Coalition, and I saw a post asking people to sign a petition from National Nurses United asking Rep. Gwen…