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I don’t believe I’ve ever encountered a blogger who asked me to stop commenting on his posts because I was upsetting his… “fans.”  Really?

Fans?

Blogger fans?

Are there really such sycophantic creatures as “blogger fans?“

Well, I suppose if your blog has T-Shirts, it may as well have fans…  Here’s a Dr. Tim [...]

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Zerban & Pull Ryan

On December 31, 2011 By

There’s an interesting AMA (ask me anything) interview with Rob Zerban over on Reddit.  Apparently, the Reddit community is experimenting with flexing it’s political mobilization muscles, and as part of a test campaign called Operation Pull Ryan, they are throwing their support behind Zerban, to see how [...]

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Comedian Lee Camp is back with another Moment of Clarity, and this time he’s talking about two bills currently being considered in Congress that have the potential to destroy the internet as we know it.

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I expect that if you are politically curious enough to read Blogging Blue on a regular basis, you also read most of Daniel Bice’s No Quarter Blog pieces in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. So there’s a good chance you read his piece on Penny Sikora, candidate for Milwaukee County Supervisor in the 18th District ( Continue Reading

On Sunday, November 27th I wrote an article about a troubling Facebook post concerning the Recall Scott Walker movement. I have reprinted that entire blog below with one minor update: I have added Senator Spencer Coggs as the Democratic office holder involved. Since that time I have twice emailed the Senator’s office for comment without [...]

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Maybe if he had finished at Marquette he’d know it’s “our,” not “are.”

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From Tony Galli of WKOW comes news of a student at Edgewood College in Madison ripping up a petition to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker and then bragging about it on Twitter.
Associate Dean of Students Ryan Bouchard told 27 News as students gathered recall signatures in a campus dining commons November 15, [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire Falls Flat

On November 17, 2011 By

A non-political post by a pissed off consumer.  If you’re looking for politics, move on to the next post.

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A long look at OWS.

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I’m not a big believer in conspiracy theories, people are usually too disorganized to form active conspiracies.  But it does appear, from this footage, that Olson may have been hit with purpose.  It’s jerky and blury and has all the usual Zapruder caveats attached to it, but you can’t argue he was threatening or [...]

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