It seems that, contrary to the old Frank Loesser song “Standing on the Corner (Watching All the Girls Go By),” you can go to jail for what you’re thinking. Or at least what you tell your parole officer you’re thinking.
Yes, Michael Monyelle, on parole for a sexual offense, is to be tried as a sexual [...]

What will it take to get the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to drop Jonah Goldberg’s column? I suppose it’s too much to hope for some sort of on-air slip that makes advertisers flee in droves.
Just as the problem with “Mallard Fillmore” is not that it’s conservative, it’s that it isn’t funny, the problem with Mr. Legacy Pundit’s [...]

Recently I was reading Bertrand Russell’s collection Why I Am Not a Christian, and I was struck by his naïve faith in the power of “scientific psychology.” He believed that we would soon discover the perfect way to raise children free of neuroses, free of what would later be called hang-ups, even free of damaging [...]

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, [...]