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STOP the NOISE!!!

On February 1, 2012 By

Please you’re giving me a headache. I can not handle anymore right wing crying wolf about “massive fraud”. We recently collected more than 1 million signatures to recall Governor Scott Walker(540,000) were needed.

As soon as the signatures were turned in, the right wing took to their airwave monopoly with their stories of [...]

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Silliness on a Friday Night: Meet Computer H14!

On January 27, 2012 By

In 1963, Jim Henson made this film about “Computer H14″ for an AT&T seminar on the tension between humans and machines.

The character was Henson’s response to a brief by Ted Mills (a principal at InPro, which organised the seminar) who laid out the basic idea that Computer H14 “is sure that All Men [...]

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Mark Fiore: Snuggly SOPA-PIPA!

On January 26, 2012 By

Pulitzer winning animated editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore takes on SOPA-PIPA

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Why We Fight: Unions Are Critical Edition

On January 23, 2012 By

There’s been a lot of chatter about this article from The New York Times on Apple’s move to China for their manufacturing.  But there is an underreported backstory here involving the management of these factories and the workers whose lives are ruined by Apple, Dell and other American electronics manufacturers.

Now I don’t really [...]

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Glitch puts some Wisconsin voters in Africa

On January 11, 2012 By

Some how I don’t think voter ID is going to fix this! LOL!

Clerks scrambling to get voters in right districts before primary

Madison – Clerks in the state are scrambling to assign voters to the right districts after last summer’s redrawing of legislative maps, with changes to the process putting [...]

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Hybrid and electric vehicle sales around the country

On December 2, 2011 By

Very interesting infographic from NPR mapping where hybrid vehicles sell the most around the country. Not unsurprising Madison leads in our state with 3.1% of vehicle sales being hybrids. Milwaukee follows with 2%. San Francisco takes the lead at 8.4% according to TPM, the source for this embedded image.

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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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This is Awesome

On October 24, 2011 By

An inside look at the Space Shuttle Discovery flight deck!

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Fiscal Conservatives – Part 3

On July 20, 2011 By

The lights are on in the republican party but in terms of being fiscally conservative, no one is home. H/T Think Progress:

In a move that could be called anything but conservative, Republican lawmakers are set to bring a bill to the House floor next week that will repeal state and municipal [...]

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Milwaukee’s 14th Aldermanic District

On June 8, 2011 By

Last week I posted a short blog about Bay View attorney Jan Pierce challenging Alderman Tony Zielinski for the seat. Little did I know that this little blog which I expected only a handful of people to care about would garner the most interest and attention of anything I’ve posted. Yes it doesn’t look [...]

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