Category: Internet/Social Networking

NPR recently had a segment on American songs that had become ‘anthems’. I missed it but one of the songs that they included in their promotion was Bob Dylan’s 1964 tune: The Times They Are A Changin’. It was adopted by many people in the Civil Rights movement and the…

stolen from Twitter:

Not that long ago, when many towns and cities had competing daily newspapers, one would be conservative and the other liberal…and were often specifically GOP or Democratic leaning. I believe in those days, The Milwaukee Sentinel (the morning paper) was Republican in nature while The Milwaukee Journal (the evening paper)…

From tonight’s Yahoo News. I just can’t:

Well now it’s a waiting game of chess…to see which pieces are moved and who moves them. One item of concern or consternation depending on which chair you occupy ~ if the AG gives a copy of the document to the president: What if Mr. Trump reads the report and…

Not sure if my suggestion to regulate political speech on social media? Should there be guidelines? Identifiable IDs for elected officials that are separate from their personal accounts? How in the hell can we allow major foreign policy changes or announcements to just pop up on Twitter? This isn’t the…

Early in January I questioned the use of Twitter by the president. He constantly uses @realDonaldTrump to expound on culture, society, and the media…all things related to the executive branch of the federal government…international relations…his campaign in 2020…and too often a stream of consciousness without any semblance of rationale thought….

In a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about the divergence of opinions in Madison, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had this to say: “I’m not going to negotiate by Twitter. I think that’s kind of BS,” Vos said.  Speaker Vos, could you share this with the White House? We’d love it…

Over the past few months I have been averaging about 3 emails a week from Raj Shukla who is running for mayor of Madison. That’s cool. They’ve all come from team@rajshukla.com and are signed simply, Raj. They are typical campaign emails….putting out policy, asking for participation in questionnaires, and of…

I am in a cranky mood this morning…so something to take the edge off!