Category Archives: Uncategorized

For my money the best Christmas skit ever is Steve Martin’s Christmas Wish from Saturday Night Live. It begins: “If I had one wish to wish this holiday season it would be for all the children of the world to join hands together and sing in a spirit of harmony and peace.“ A) That PaulContinue reading “The Q&Q For 12/22/23”

Nobody runs for the Madison City Council for the pay and perks. So, why should we want to change that? In a move that is breathtaking in its cluelessness, Council Vice President Yannette Figueroa Cole is proposing an increase from $15,000 to $24,000 a year, or a whopping 60%. It would be even more forContinue reading “Don’t Increase Council Pay”

Hard on the heels of doing the right thing the UW found a way to do the wrong thing. Only days after reaching — after lots of unnecessary twists and turns — an historic agreement to move forward on the much-needed new engineering building on the Madison campus that had been held up over concernsContinue reading “The UW Still Doesn’t Get It”

I worry about nuclear war. In fact, I’m amazed that in the 70 years or so that we’ve had the capability to blow everything to smithereens we haven’t taken advantage of the opportunity. You could take that to mean that since we haven’t done it in the last span of a human lifetime we won’tContinue reading “Armageddon May Only Be a Hack Away”

Another busy week last week. You’d expect things to slow down now that we’re getting close to the holidays. We’ll see. Anyway, here are some of the big stories from state news in the week gone by. Regents come around. Last week was a crowded one for the University of Wisconsin. Lots of twists andContinue reading “Monday Catch Up: GOP Taps Foxes to Guard Chicken Coops”

This week’s quote comes to us from pro golfer Keegan Bradley who, in reacting to a new USGA rule that will make golf balls fly shorter distances, said: “For the amateur world to hit the ball shorter is monstrous. I can’t think of anything more stupid than that.” A) 20 – 25 yards. B) 10Continue reading “The Q&Q for 12/15/23”

This one is not about a football play. It’s about legislative Republicans discovering a novel way of getting around both a Democratic Governor and a liberal Supreme Court. The strategy is to take legislation that would be vetoed by Gov. Tony Evers or struck down by the Court and putting in a constitutional amendment overContinue reading “I’m Okay With the End Around”

Saturday morning’s vote by the majority of the UW Board of Regents to reject a grand compromise worked out by their own system president says everything we need to know about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party right now. The Regents met again in closed session yesterday and another meeting is scheduled for today duringContinue reading “Regents Point to What’s Amiss With Democrats”

I am a strong advocate of free speech. Others define freedom as the ability to own any kind of gun they want or to do whatever they want with their land. My definition of freedom is the freedom to write whatever I want as long as I’m not committing libel. I flatter myself that, inContinue reading “Free Speech and Hypocrisy”

A very busy week last week. At the top of the list were two stories out of academia. Didn’t see that coming. On Friday UW System President Jay Rothman and Speaker Robin Vos announced a deal that would free up UW System employee pay increases, release $32 million that Vos had held back from theContinue reading “Monday Catch Up: Regents Destroy the UW”