Funny how both time and circumstances affect our view of things. While I was at Summerfest yesterday, my friend Jeff and I caught all of Pat McCurdy's show. (For those of you unfamiliar w/ this WI institution, check out www.myspace.com/patmccurdy99 or www.patmccurdy.com ( Read more... )

"A shooting inside a home killed six people, and a toddler was found in a nearby vehicle with a gunshot to the chest, the police chief said Sunday." This happened in town about 30 miles away from me. Here's the reaction of one local resident ( Read more... )

From the Wikipedia article on Representative/Senator William Fulbright ( Read more... )

Had one of those A leads to B leads to C moments as I was browsing the news this morning. Saw that TB carrier Andrew Speaker was apologizing and was thinking about how this is now de rigueur for any perpetrators of any publicly vetted wrongdoing, wondering how genuine his regret was. Which reminded me of Bart's "I'm sorry" to the Australian ( Read more... )

At my bridge game last night, we were discussing a hosue that had exploded near Milwaukee over the weekend, completely destroying the house killing the 80-year old resident. On the way home, as I was on the freeway, I noticed I was approachin an orange glow on the side, which became brighter as I neared and then I could see it was a car on the on- ( Read more... )

There is a business owner near my house who tends to erect signs, about 3' x 5' or so, espousing various Christian-themed sentiments on the berm overlooking the freeway.  The one I pased today on the way to an appointment said:  Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.  A bit simplistic, I thought - as I do about a number of the ( Read more... )

CBS' web site has an article entitled What One Word Cost the GOP. It tells how using "macaca" influenced the VA Senate race resulting in the loss of Allen the flip of the Senate, and thus the flip of the whole Congress. And I understand the point about it being "just" one word. But I also think it showed Webb's soul. It was not just that in an ( Read more... )

I don't know which of the two is funnier here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o4x-VW_rCSE

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Just a few scattered flurries w/ no accumulation but nevertheless ....

Should be low 30's, high 20's tonight (w/o wind chill of course)