What do an ex-President of the United States, the Godfather of Soul and a middle eastern dictator have in common?

They all died last week.
Gerald Ford may best be remembered as the man who took office after the late Richard Nixon was about to be impeached.  Ford pardoned Nixon which will forever be burned in the […]

Not much to write about this afternoon. It's a slow news day, and nothing's happened to really get my blood boiling that I haven't already blogged.

As for the year just passed: Sure, many terrible things happened and continue to happen (as The Onion so perfectly put it), but I prefer to think of 2006 as […]

There's a fluffy piece in the Journal Sentinel today about the 15-year-old winner of the Burlington Liars Club's annual contest for "World's Champion Liar." So what was James Wilberg's masterpiece of fabulation?

"There are only three kinds of people. Those who can do math, and those who can't."
That's not even a lie, it's a […]

The force field that runs down 124th Street may have kept you from discovering that we have an aspiring new political humorist in the suburbs. Recalled (and ridiculous) former mayor of Muskego Charles Damaske is relaunching his political career with a run for alderman in his new home of Watertown (Muskego is in Waukesha County, […]

I've figured out how to provide funding for proper housing, care, and hospitalization for Milwaukee's mentally ill: start promoting the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex as a residential weight-loss center. Lose 44 pounds in 3 months, with no strenuous exercise — how many places can honestly make that claim?

Sure, the facilities are on […]

"As American as apple pie"
 
Dave Somerscales            
This is getting to be a regular thing! Once gain the media is overrun with stories about the latest incident of violence in pro sports. On Sunday, December 17th at a New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets game a (yawn) brawl on the court erupted – at least the second […]