Farmer Tony Schultz to be on Ed Schultz tonight?! Go Tony!!
Dang, this social networking stuff actually works!Yesterday I posted this diary, featuring a video of the powerful speech that Wisconsin dairy farmer and CSA operator Tony Brown delivered from the...
View ArticleNew developments in Wisconsin solidarity: Zombies on Parade! UPDATE: Faux...
Gee, I thought someone else would have diaried this by now. But having searched and found nothing, your humble Badger correspondent submits this for your consideration.While taking a little breather...
View ArticleTom Toles vs. Paul Ryan: Toles wins again!
Tom Toles has long been my favorite editorial cartoonist. I'm signed up at www.gocomics.com to automatically receive, every day, his days's work. The really extra good ones go into a special file....
View ArticleI S**t You Not Dept (WI Division): "Support for unions drives wedge in tea...
So I've been enjoying reading about the Tea Party/Palin EPIC FAIL in Madison today in Librul in Madison's diary. Turns out an Americans for Prosperity bus from La Crosse had to be cancelled for lack...
View ArticleHas Obama just won re-election?
Wow. I'm watching the crowds gathering and cheering in Lafayette Square. What a moment! From the deep despair of 9/11... to the confusion and sorrow and anger of the days that followed... to the...
View ArticleWisconsin: "See what makes us unique"
Hello, fellow Recallers and Friends of Recallers far and near. Tonight I found myself up at the capitol square in Madison at the end of the day. It was a cool (but warm for December!) evening, and I...
View ArticleHappy 125th birthday, Aldo Leopold.
I am tempted to add to the title: "....now get back to work!"Today is Aldo Leopold's 125th birthday. Leopold is highly regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent voices of conservation and...
View ArticleA visit with Abe Lincoln and Mother Jones
A couple weeks ago I had occasion to cross Illinois on my way between St. Louis and Wisconsin. Along the way, I stopped to see two old friends. Like, really old friends. But they have been much on...
View ArticleFor peat's sake: the latest Walker outrage
In Wisconsin, the hits just keep coming... Hits on teachers and students, hits on public employees and unions, hits on the elderly and the disadvantaged, hits on voters and farmers and local...
View ArticleMust Read NYT: "How Did Wisconsin Become the Most Politically Divisive Place...
The New York Times has just posted this excellent and comprehensive article by Dan Kaufman. It will appear in their Sunday magazine. Of all the summaries that I have read of the Wisconsin situation,...
View ArticlePaul Ryan?! Prepare to open your $350 Pinot Noir
I can't resist. I posted a couple comments earlier in diaries by Joan McCarter and TexMex, reminding us all of the classic Paul Ryan moment from last summer, when he was seen in a Washington DC...
View ArticleWOW. Jonathan Bernstein whales on Ryan big-time.
A quick little diary just to get this passed along.In "The Plum Line" blog at the Washington Post, Jonathan Bernstein has just made a most righteous and entirely justified rant. Just go read it. But...
View ArticleCall their BS: Tell them "I'm better off!"
This stuff just infuriates me.Here's the article from the New York Times: G.O.P. Seizes on a Question: Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?. Read it and rend your garments:Representative...
View ArticleToday's "Word of the Day": Romney edition!
Sometimes I think the folks over at Dictionary.com have a real sense of humor, or irony, or....sarcasm, banter, burlesque, contempt, contrariness, criticism, derision, humor, incongruity, jibe,...
View ArticleAvery Durable View Binder: The reviews are in!
The meme that goes on and on!Not a profound diary this one, but I couldn't resist sharing the Amazon reviews of the Avery Durable View Binder with 2 Inch EZ-Turn Ring, White, 1 Binder. Sheer sarcastic...
View ArticleTAMMY! TAMMY! TAMMY!
Oh, blessed day.Tammy Baldwin elected senator from Wisconsin!!!!!!!!
View ArticleRIP, Bernie Sahlins, and thank you....
Bernie Sahlins died yesterday, at 90, in Chicago, the city he made a hotspot for comedy talent through the revolutionary work of Second City. At Second City, he and his co-founders changed the very...
View ArticleTurkey: "Today many unpleasant things happened"
I have been exchanging messages today with a friend in Ankara who has been participating in the protests there over the last two weeks, including the first demonstrations in Gezi park.
View Article“I can go to the doctor now?”
That's the opening line in a front-page Washington Post article, "In rural Kentucky, debate over health law takes a back seat as people sign up." Wow. A positive story and some in-depth reporting on...
View ArticleTrashing a State, Trashing a Tradition: Scott Walker at Work
I have been waiting for one of my fellow Badgers to pick up on this story, but haven't seen it diaried yet. So I'll give it a go.It's from Milwaukee Magazine, published 1/3/2014. Here's the opening...
View ArticleWhat's happened to the Wisconsin you grew up in?
StellaRay posted a good diary yesterday: A tale of two governors: so similar and so different, looking at Christie vs. Walker. And just a day later, the story of Walker his criminal, hateful, petty,...
View ArticleFighting for Wisconsin's Soul
This morning's New York Times features an article, "The Fight for Wisconsin's Soul," by Dan Kaufman. While Wisconsin celebrates the Badgers making the Final Four, another long-time part of the state's...
View ArticleRIP: The woman you never heard of... who changed our world!
Milly Zantow has passed away is Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin at 91. You likely never heard of her. And yet she affected your life every day for decades.You know the little triangle symbols on plastics,...
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Marking Martha's Passing: Centennial Commemorations
As I was writing this up, Lenny Flank posted this diary on the passenger pigeon. It's on the Rec List right now. I thought I'd go ahead and post mine because it includes additional links to current...
View ArticleAn appeal to Wisconsin's young voters
This appeal is aimed at YOU, young Wisconsin voter.I remember seeing you walking down the streets and sidewalks in Madison on cold February days three and half years ago, streams of you making your way...
View ArticleStunning graphics from NYT article: take note Wisconsin!
I wrote this before seeing Joan McCarter's diary. Please see the graphics embedded there!___A quick diary here, highlighting a lead article over at the New York Times, The Affordable Care Act: Who Was...
View ArticleScott Walker vs. The Truth. Truth Wins. This round.
It has been a wild 24 hours in Wisconsin, following Scott Walker's budget address to the state legislature last night. Pleased to see Hunter's diary up there. I can't do full justice to the horrid...
View ArticleRepublican governors running for president, and their budgets
A short diary, but I couldn't help but notice a pattern among awful Republican governors who are hoping to be president, and how their state budgets are faring.
View Article"Walker makes state a laughing stock": What a letter!
This amazing letter to the editor was just posted at Rice Lake Online.
View ArticleThe puppet-masters behind Walker
Get ready. In the next few days, alas, all eyes will be on Wisconsin once again, as the state legislature — no doubt with the Walker campaign's permission and encouragement — takes up...
View ArticleWalker says it out loud: I am at war with Wisconsin citizens
Scott Walker has spoken. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. In Puddytat's current diary, we learn about Walker waiting for God to whisper in his ear and tell him to...
View ArticleIt's official: Koch brothers "signal support for Scott Walker"
While Mr. Walker continues the process of dismantling the state of Wisconsin, and while my fellow Wisconsinites are starting to come to their senses and driving down his approval ratings, Walker has...
View ArticleWalker loses a round in court
Haven't seen this in a diary yet, so here's a short one on a bit of news. (Where are you, puddytat??)All of us in Wisconsin who lose sleep thinking that Scott Walker may spend and slime his way into...
View ArticleBehind Walker's curtain
For those still dismissing the possibility that Walker could well end up in the White House, please take the time to do this little bit of background reading.The Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel seems to be...
View ArticleChicago Tribune picks up big Walker corruption story
On Friday afternoon, the Walker gang did a news dump, revealing that the corrupt Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, which Walker created and has chaired, was responsible for handing out more...
View ArticleStephen Colbert marched in Charleston last night
I hadn't seen this reported until just now. It pretty much speaks for itself.Stephen Colbert Joins 'Unity Chain' March For Charleston
View ArticleScott Walker's WEDC corruption scandal grows
Scott Walker has sought to avoid responsibility and accountability for his flagrantly corrupt Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. His people had hoped that by dumping the news last Friday it...
View ArticleThe NYT shares five "Things You May Not Know About Scott Walker"
The New York Times covers Scott Walker's announcement of his candidacy, and what do they offer as a side piece? This ridiculous and insulting piece of pseudo-journalism: "Things You May Not Know...
View ArticleAnother Walker piece in place: ALEC's new national chair
This will be short and awful.But it's another warning sign. Scott Walker is getting off Scott-free. While the media obsesses over Trump, and while all the other Republican wanna-be's keep making...
View ArticleAnother day, another Scott Walker lie
It's impossible to keep up with the constant stream of Scott Walker's deceit and falsehood. If it ain't his assault on open records laws, it's his wishful-thinking budget "surplus," or his signing...
View ArticleNew poll: Walker approval in WI slips into 30s!
This will be short and bittersweet.The people of Wisconsin continue to catch on. Better late than never. The new Marquette University poll has been released.Scott Walker's approval dips below 40...
View ArticleIMPORTANT: The corporate assault on Wisconsin's water
I've not seen a diary on this, and hardly any news about it. Walker's exit from the national scene has hardly blunted the assault on democracy, justice, and accountability in Wisconsin. But now the...
View ArticleLet's make the point: How is Sen. McCain paying for his surgery?
This is a short diary. In fact it could be just one question long: How is John McCain paying for his surgery? We could add: Shouldn’t every single American citizen have the same health insurance...
View ArticleMy father asks: "What was it I fought for in the 1940s?"
A short Veterans Day diary.I’m just off the phone with my 96-year-old father. He spends his winters down near Brownsville, Texas. He is a decorated veteran of World War II, having been wounded during...
View ArticleWisconsin: Going Scott-free for the first time since 2011!
No real diary here, friends, but in case you want to watch the inauguration of Tony Evers, here’s the link: www.wiseye.org/…Much much more work to do here in Wisconsin but for now it’s time to...
View Article"Broken Towns": listening to Iowa's story
The 2016 election made the nation fully aware of the stark political divide between our urban and rural communities. The map showed the hard reality: we are deeply divided between red and blue. But...
View ArticleYou're fired!
Just sayin’…. Because it was the phrase the created the myth and cult of Trump. Now it can be his epitaph.Because I’ve been waiting since 2016 to say it. I expect I am not alone. Can I get an...
View ArticleWill Trump try to steal Wisconsin?
I’ve been losing some sleep on this the last couple days.You all know what a corrupt cesspool the gerrymandered Wisconsin state legislature is. Not to mention the creatures that have arisen from it...
View Article"Suffering" by Peter Ostroushko
The late, great multi-instrumentalist Peter Ostroushko was the son of Ukrainian immigrants, and grew up in northeast Minneapolis’ Ukrainian community. I woke up this morning thinking about him. He...
View Article136 Days, 136 Actions
We have 136 days until Election Day. 136 days to save this democracy from the forces of authoritarianism, division, and corruption.136 days to build a unified wave of participation that can turn back...
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