Bellyaching. Whining. Constant political attacks. Really now, wouldn’t you think that everyone would have something better to do than complain about MMSD? I mean, I get it — there is sewage dumping that happens a few times a year in order to reduce the possibility of sewage backups into peoples basements. That dumping goes into [...]

Russ Feingold is used to being called a maverick, but nothing can be more outrageous than syndicated Republican talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s comparison of him to the terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. Limbaugh said that Bin Laden’s recent comments “sounds like this could easily be [said by] Russ Feingold, the Senator from Wisconsin.” Limbaugh clearly [...]

Those of you who, like me, were saddened by the ludicrous conservative response to President Obama‘s anodyne “stay-in-school-and-study-hard” speech need to read this article from the St. Petersburg Times compiling some teenagers’ reactions to the speech: they’re quite heartening, and some are very funny. Those Elmbrook School District kids missed out. Comparisons have been made [...]

They’re both hardcore Republican activists masquerading as impartial information providers. Both have had talk radio shows and now both talk show host Charlie Sykes and Milwaukee Magazine columnist Jessica McBride have had extramarital affairs. While both have made their living wagging fingers at others, neither can be accused of discretion. While Sykes picked an opera [...]

Offensive. Outrageous. Inexcusable. That was my reaction when syndicated talk radio host (on AM620 WTMJ ) Michael Savage decided to play a "Dead Kennedys" song when he announced that Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with brain cancer. As a person who has lost a close relative to brain cancer I can tell you it's nothing [...]

Milwaukee County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin wanted voters to think that her only challenger, Dan Cody, was some out-of-touch lefty and she was a sensible moderate. As such, she attempted to position herself as just to the right of Cody, figuring that she would pick up all moderates and all conservatives. In a two-person race, that [...]