edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
I support development in downtown Madison. I dislike sprawl and Madison is definitely growing. Making smarter and better use of the existing space downtown is in the city's interest whether that means building in currently empty spaces, replacing unusable buildings, or growing [...]
Got that from Channel 3000’s Twitter. [...] 
Two years ago I recorded a Christmas album titled There Isn’t a War on Christmas. All the songs were both written and recorded within a month or so in my old basement and at my sister-in-law’s music therapy clinic. (Note: Her studio [...]
Ka-Zam!
BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST WEDNESDAY
NIGHT…
…WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED… [...] 
Yimmys Yayo, by way of Daring Fireball, presents a a real khorosho costume for a malchick, in a post appropraitely titled Halloween Droog… [...]
Editor’s note – this post has some salty language. It’s been too long since I’ve unleashed my inner Rottweiler, so deal with it.
It’s been a while since I delved into the fucked-up world of TARP. The Wall Street Journal yesterday dragged me back into it with news that instead [...]
The frustrating thing about having not one, but two alleged art film houses in the backyard is that it enhances frustration when a movie you really want to see keeps passing the market week after week. Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is one [...]
Oh cruel Nature, harsh force that she is! How is it that she acts to deprive our small city of a gathering by its most extraordinary public commission?
I can think of no better example of misused and unused oversight in all Wisconsin. The many serious and dedicated officers of [...]
Former Milwaukee Admiral Keith Ballard of the Florida Panthers nearly kills his goalie Tomas Vokoun for being an idiot as he wildly swings his stick after a goal is scored against his team.
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If I haven't already read them, they're very likely on my Amazon Wish List. Not included on the list, surprisingly, is Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, which I found excellent.
From Planetizen:
Planetizen is pleased to release its ninth annual list of the ten best books in urban [...]
This is what 250,000 Miller Lites look like.
In what serves as the unofficial start of winter in my book, MillerCoors (still weird to say) unveiled their annual holiday lights display last week. This year’s display features 250,000 LED lights [...]
...Under the compromise, the public option would be removed from the bill and replaced with a new government-administered national insurance plan similar to the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan, which serves members of Congress and federal workers.
To sweeten the deal for liberals, people 55 [...]Many say we are just starting to emerge from the deepest recession in this country since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Our In-Over-His-Head-Not-Ready-For-Primetime-President has done little to create non-government jobs…but the Obama Economic Policy meter has now gone past a solid “Neglect” reading and is quickly approaching “Assault.”
Cap-And-Trade would [...]
This Thursday through Saturday Edgewood College will host its first completely student-run production: Home is where the Cardboard Lies, an original play by Edgewood student Tyler Schott that looks at homelessness as experienced by five characters (one of whom is a homeless [...]
Five House Democrats will call this week for a return to a Depression-era law that separated Wall Street investment banking from Main Street commercial banking.
If adopted, the measure would give banks one year to choose between being commercial banks or investment banks. The nation's biggest -- [...]
You might be wondering who’s behind GLSEN.
Well, they receive financial backing from numerous private foundations, corporations and corporate foundations.
Their national sponsors “make an annual commitment to GLSEN of $75,000 or more and, in addition' [...]
It is especially appropriate for those of you between the Wisconsin bunker and the Minnesota bunker seeing the deepest of the foot-deep snow Gorebal “Warming” will be splitting the difference. My blogfather used to put this up at the various runs of Spotted Horse before he flamed out whenever Demon [...]
Today is December 8, the 342nd day of the year. On this day in 1980, Rock musician John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by Mark David Chapman. The former Beatle was 40.
* WSJ: Murder suspect Tyrone Adair found dead in Cottage Grove
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There is no scientific basis whatsoever for saying there is a 90% probability (IPCC’s position) that most of the warming over the last 50 years was caused by human-kind. None whatsoever.
Monckton speaks with stunning common sense.. Play this for your family, your friends [...]
Department of Public Works officials will be back before the Common Council’s Public Works Committee tomorrow morning to talk about the best way to spend more money on fixing City Hall, which already has cost $76 million to restore.
City officials say that restoration project was completed within budget, but that is true [...]
Data published by The New York Times shows how far we are from safe drinking water, and where stimulus funding needs to be focused. [...] 
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