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Posted by Zach on August 30, 2010, at 7:25 pm

A couple of technical notes

Just a couple of technical notes relating to the site itself:

Just below the Blogging Blue logo at the top of the page, you’ll see a series of links to various pages within Blogging Blue. In addition to providing a link to our comment policy, you’ll also find links to our contact form, an [...]

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 29, 2010, at 10:44 pm

The “liberal” media…

Recently, to no one’s surprise, Ken Mehlmann, the former Bush-Cheney campaign manager and head of the republican party, came out as gay.

While the story is not that a gay man, helped the bush-cheney campaign run a bigoted anti-gay campaign in order to win election, that story has been played out numerous times. [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 25, 2010, at 5:38 am

Local politicos holding fundraiser for Chris Moews

Found in my email inbox: Please Join U.S. Representative Gwen Moore Along with State Senator Lena Taylor and State Representative Sandy Pasch With County Supervisors Theo Lipscomb, John Thomas, and Gerry Broderick

In supporting Chris Moews, Candidate for Milwaukee County Sheriff

Thursday, August 26th 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

At Brocach Irish Pub 1850 North [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 23, 2010, at 6:37 pm

Don’t expect much from me…

Due to the aftereffects of a t-bone car accident earlier today, I won’t be blogging much in the next few days.

Hopefully Ed, PP, and MadCityMan can keep you entertained.

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 22, 2010, at 9:39 pm

Unfortunately, it is not out of the realm of possibility…

A quick browse of the Huffington Post and my eye caught this story. After a nice belly laugh, I started looking elsewhere on the page and came across these stories also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/rod-blagojevich-future-in-politics-fox-news_n_690372.html

It was symbolic when the six Republican candidates for U.S. Senate stood up together side-by-side during a debate Wednesday. It resembled their [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 18, 2010, at 5:49 am

Reminder: Drinking Liberally tonight!

Just a friendly reminder that tonight’s the night to get together for some Drinking Liberally: Hi folks! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be having Democratic candidates for governor and lt. governor, Tim John and Tom Nelson, *and* Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave Westlake at tomorrow’s Drinking Liberally!

Plus, we’re about a month away [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 15, 2010, at 11:30 pm

A Netroots Wisconsin reminder

If you’ve got an interest in blogging, or you just want to learn more about what’s going on within Wisconsin’s Netroots, you should seriously consider signing up to attend Netroots Wisconsin, which is being held at the Madison Senior Center on September 25, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. Here’s the details:

When: [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 11, 2010, at 8:23 pm

Drinking Liberally – next week!

From my email inbox today comes news of the next meeting of Drinking Liberally: My dear and only friend,

I was talking with me droog the post-corrective advisor after our last round at the milkbar, and he says something I thought was real horrorshow: “Want to have Dave Westlake come here again?” After a [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 4, 2010, at 5:01 am

A cool new tool

Yesterday the Sunlight Foundation launched “Poligraft,” a new tool to help netizens uncover the hidden web of political giving in news stories on the Internet – the patterns of political contributions that aren’t always obvious. Using Poligraft is simple: just type or paste the URL or text of a news article, blog post or [...]

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Posted by Zach on July 28, 2010, at 5:12 am

Don’t forget about tonight’s special edition of Drinking Liberally

Yep, that’s right….two nights of Drinking Liberally in one month: Dear Milwaukeean liberal drinkers,

Tomorrow is a very special event for our humble little chapter: Living Liberally co-founder Justin Krebs is coming to Milwaukee! Krebs is the author of “538 Ways to Live, Work & Play Like a Liberal.” It’s full of little ideas [...]

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