Self Check Out : Bad, Self Pour : Good?

I am sure that most of you have seen articles or social media posts that find fault with retailers who use self check out lanes. It takes jobs away from real people. Which is true. But today some of those same people are excited about going to a bar where…

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How Was 5/6/22 Different Than 1/6/21?

Before we get to the little quibbles about May 6, 2022 not being a significant date, I simply picked it for symmetry. Nothing particularly significant happened that day but that is actually part of the point. But early in May, a draft of a US Supreme Court decision around Roe…

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Gas Prices Are A World Issue: Just Ask Finland

from a social media post by a friend of mine who has retired to Finland. It’s not the American President’s fault…just like it hasn’t been anytime this century.

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So, What If We Do Successfully Harden Every Elementary and High School In The USA?

Isn’t this too narrow a focus? I mean…then what do we do about mass shootings at grocery stores, medical facilities, music concerts, movie theaters, sporting events, night clubs, and places of worship?

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Cancel Culture? Mike Gableman Understands How To Use It!

I have gotten used to the GOP lies and misinformation and misdirection…and then moments later moving in the other direction when they sense a wind shift. But it’s always amused me when they go on and one about cancel culture while they are doing precisely that. This article is behind…

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Bob Donovan Should Just Simply Withdraw From The Milwaukee Mayoral Election:

Why??? Because of this article: Bob Donovan says he would probably move back to Greenfield if he loses the Milwaukee mayoral race. This is behind a fire wall so you might not be able to get at it…but here’s the gist. Former Ald. Bob Donovan is running to be the…

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Note to former justice Gableman: You are violating the first amendment.

I will probably have more to say about this jerkwad after the holiday but briefly from today’s news: Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is calling on a GOP state senator to resign for criticizing the review of the 2020 election he is conducting for Assembly Republicans. Republican state…

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Then it was Friday in Kenosha, and this happened:

Will Rittenhouse acquittal lead to more armed confrontations at protests? an edited version of this article appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel print edition on November 22, 2021. (former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Janine) Geske said that in light of the verdict, lawmakers should reassess gun laws and permitting for…

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As Kenan Thompson Would Say ” What’s Up With That?”

So I recently returned to scrolling through an ostensibly progressive Facebook page that I had seriously neglected throughout much of the last year or so, the Wisconsin Urban and Rural Progressive Coalition, and I saw a post asking people to sign a petition from National Nurses United asking Rep. Gwen…

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Kamala Harris Supports Graham and Rubio Vaccinations

Although many on the left (including myself) question why naysayers, anti-maskers, and virus hoaxers electeds in the Republican Party got vaccines ahead of front line medical personnel…Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris wants a word. Amid growing anger as some Republicans who have spent the pandemic downplaying COVID-19 become some of the first…

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