Friday, July 15, 2011

The Seated Lynching Effigies of Madison, Wisconsin.

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A couple days ago, we were talking about the way no one at the anti-Justice Prosser rally "seemed to be bothered by the symbolism of a...
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There's a $55 million budget shortfall in Milwaukee, so let's build that $64.4 million streetcar.

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2 absurdly discordant stories on the front page of today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1. "Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele s...

Krauthammer is irked that Obama's "Olympian above-the-fray no-politics-here pose is succeeding."

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Well, yes: A pliant press swallows the White House story line: the great compromiser (“clearly exasperated,” sympathized a Post news story) ...

"I want now this vintage bag!!!"

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A comment over at The Sartorialist got me thinking about the oldest, most impossible to throw out thing in my closet. My closet is big enou...

"[W]atching Steve Whitmire’s Kermit is akin to watching someone imitate a mythic and longed-for mother..."

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"... my mother — wearing a my-mother costume in a my-mother dance routine. This person’s heart is in the right place, which only makes...

"The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya as the country’s legitimate government..."

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NYT: “The United States views the Qaddafi regime as no longer having any legitimate authority in Libya,” [Secretary of State Hillary Rodham]...

"Does education reduce childbearing, or does childbearing get in the way of education?"

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Assuming causation, which direction does it go? "In theory, either scenario is plausible." A girl born in a "pronatalist...