Category: Random Stuff

Amy and I are prepping our house for sale.   So we’re both busy, busy, busy with cleaning, spackling, painting, grouting, cutting, mowing, scrubbing and other fun tasks.  My blogging will therefore be intermittent for the next few weeks. So if you or anyone you know is looking for a…

Hello. It’s been a while since I started up a new blog. On July 1, 2007 I posted the first entry to Blogging Blue, and at the time I anticipated Blogging Blue would be a fun way to express my opinions about all things political. However, what I never expected…

He takes Corey Booker, the mayor of Newark, to task.  Mr. Booker ran into a burning building to save a neighbor.  In addition to being a personally good deed, this episode demonstrates the real failure of local government in the 21st century. The whole story speaks to a quintessentially American love of…

Holy crap!  Let’s hope this look-alike set is as close to the actual Oval Office that Beck ever gets…  Ever. The set, which Beck has nicknamed “The Oval,” will make its debut on his daily program Monday as part of a regular segment of the show in which he’ll be…

Just a couple of thoughts on election night: At the risk of further endangering my status as a tried and true liberal, I actually support downsizing the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. I was no fan of the Board’s decision to “downsize” by only one seat as a result of…

Mitt admits that he’s just not plugged in.  Hey, everyone knows you have to plug in your robot once in a while.  But Mitt is not plugged in on this one.  From the New York Daily News: President Obama is notoriously mad about March, obsessively filling out his NCAA tournament…

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Noted raconteur and bon vivant, Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club has come out in support of legalizing The Lady… “I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to,…

New research confirms earlier findings that people who are incompetent don’t really know that they’re incompetent.  It’s known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect and is one of my favorite cognitive biases. The results are uniform across all the knowledge domains: People who actually did well on the test tend to feel…