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 [...]

Today’s Journal Sentinel‘s “Crossroads” section is a virtual festival of fallacious thinking, misunderstanding of reality, and just plain wrong-headedness. Reader Advisory Committee Member Kelly Kasum Ressel, for instance, criticizes those meddling local bureaucrats who mandate that pool owners put up proper fencing to keep children out. She complains that this places the responsibility on the [...]

Journal Sentinel Community Columnist Al Smith shares some apocalyptic words about the proposal to require employers in Milwaukee to provide paid sick leave to all employees. In truth, I think a requirement limited to Milwaukee is a bad idea that could backfire; I’d like to see a statewide mandate, or better yet (dreaming here), a [...]

I know I pick on Patrick McIlheran a lot, but he just keeps writing the dumbest things. Like today’s “Quick Hit,” which I must quote in full: Obama, Reagan and the world of make-believe Barack Obama visited Mount Rushmore the other day, full of audacious curiosity. He asked a ranger about the chase scene across [...]

Shorter Roger Frank Bass, Professor of Education and Community Columnist: Hey, you kids get off my lawn! (“Shorter” concept invented and perfected by bloggers much more clever than I am.) Share

That was quite a bold stand Patrick McIlheran took in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel, disapproving of the Sheboygan mother who got drunk and shot her 8-year-old with a BB gun on a bet from her boyfriend. Seriously, who in the world is defending this woman? The Dirtbag Mothers of America? It’s not as if McIlheran was [...]