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Pension Envy: Anger Over Government Benefits

It is interesting to me that when I speak to people that want to see public employees pay more for their benefits one of the primary arguments is typically “I have to pay a high dollar amount for my benefits, so should they.” I think what many people do not

Ronald Reagan, Champion of Organized Labor. Wait, What?

Presidential candidate, and former President of the Screen Writers’ Guild Ronald Reagan made a great speech sticking up for the working man on Labor Day at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey September 1, 1980. I happen to be the only president of a union ever to be a

Isthmus, Wisconsin Associated Press sue Gov. Scott Walker over access to emails

Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press today filed a lawsuit against Gov. Scott Walker over his office’s failure to respond to open records requests regarding emails received by his office. “The governor said he had gotten more than 8,000 emails as of Feb. 17, with ‘the majority’

Reenacting his favorite commercial

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This morning’s birthday breakfast

Flipped with the Darth Vader spatula.

Walker&#039;s budget removes insurance requirement to cover birth control

Is anyone really surprised he threw this in the budget? We wouldn’t want to make sure reproductive health services are easy to access now, would we? Walker’s budget summary says the requirement is an “unacceptable government mandate on employers with moral objections to these services,” and that it

My new quad-core MacBook Pro

Arrival in North America.

WI GOP Working on Their Dick Moves

The Wisconsin State Senate GOP is doing there best to just be dicks now. Democratic staffers need to turn in time sheets to the majority leader, and the Sergeant at Arms and Chief Clerk are monitoring printer and copier usage to make sure everything gets charged to the Senator’s

Protests From The State Capitol

Today I used some vacation time and walked to the capitol from my office on campus with camera in hand. I arrived shortly after 1:00 pm, which was a time when the morning protestors were leaving, and the afternoon protestors had not yet arrived. I was still very surprised

GM To Pay Hourly Workers More Than $4,000 Each In Bonuses

General Motors is not giving white-collar workers a raise this year, AP adds. This is how you get the economy going again. These blue collar workers make less, but will be more likely to put their bonus right back in to the economy than white collar workers.

GOP Takes Latest Abortion Fight To The Tax Code

Another interesting bill introduced by the GOP House. HR3 would make it nearly impossible to have an abortion covered by insurance. Any company that offers a health plan that could cover abortion would get no tax credits. The bill would also block anybody with insurance that covers abortions from receiving

Usher ripped off Homer Simpson?

Check out the startling similarity between Usher’s song OMG and Homer Simpson’s song in the episode Dude, Where’s My Ranch? from season 14 of The Simpsons. Shocking. Seen on Kottke.

Catholic church gives blessing to iPhone app

Here you go Catholics. Can’t quite find the time to make it to confession? Download this app to your iOS device for the low, low price of only $1.99 and find absolution. Apparently the US Catholic Church has the app their seal of approval. You can now sin

Evolution Made Us All - A Hymn

I saw this today on Boing Boing. A really well done song, and the little girl singing sounds so cute. Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo.

Crematorium could help heat council swimming pool

An ingenious plan to save money and the environment, if a bit morbid. A council is proposing to save money – and combat global warming – by heating a leisure centre and swimming pool using heat generated by the crematorium next door. Redditch council in Worcestershire says it can save £14,500

CBO on Healthcare Reform Repeal - You&#039;re Screwed

The Congressional Budget Office has a preliminary letter out on “H.R. 2 To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.” Wonderful title to the bill isn’t it? So what does the CBO say? As a

Ezra Klein - Repealing health-care reform would cost hundreds of billions of dollars -- and Eric Cantor knows it

House Republicans are in a pickle: One of their new rules says that new legislation must be paid for. But the health-care bill reduces the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years. Luckily, they’ve figured out an answer to their problem: They’ve decided

A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why Im An Atheist

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Secret Chamber Found In India National Library

Now the home of the India National Library, Belvedere House once house the British Governor General as far back as the 1760’s. It is also reportedly haunted. The latest is an approximately 1,000 square foot hidden room with no entrances. I was just found during renovations. No one

Jack&#039;s Rain Gutter Regatta

Jack had his Cub Scout Rain Gutter Regatta last night. He had a blast, and can’t wait for next year. Jack’s first race was against the kid who ended up placing first in his den, and he beat Jack. A few minutes later Jack had his second chance

Tiger-Stone Brick Laying Machine

This is a marvelous contraption. It rolls out a brick road like carpet.

2010 UW Obama Campaign Rally

Sarah and I took the kids to the Obama campaign rally on the UW-Madison campus last night, September 28, 2010. It was a great experience for them. The crowd was estimated at over 26,000 people by the police though early estimates stated they were expecting only around 15,000.

Laser Pointer Crime

You think you are real funny with that laser pointer don’t you? Well chum, watch where you point that thing or you could end up with some jail time and a decent fine. Wisconsin state statute 941.299 Restrictions on the use of laser pointers. … (2) No person may

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html From Douglas Adams: So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to

The Walking Dead TV series premieres Halloween on AMC

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