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Gorsuch schools America on the judiciary
The indentured servants are neglecting their duties attending to the Squire here at the Stately Manor. They are splayed out on the floor of the Walter Winchell Memorial Media Room watching the Neil Gorsuch nomination hearing this week. Should be required viewing on college campuses for the education it offers on the separation of powers.…
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Unfocused excuse making at Madison schools
Go Badgers! Defeating #1 Villanova with Bronson Koenig on the bench for a quarter of the game and Ethan Happ almost half the game! Nigel Hayes at money time. And the reach-in steal of the Century by Vitto Brown! Ex-cellent! The betting line just changed for Police Chief Mike Koval’s chances of being reimbursed for the $22,000…
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Madison’s War on Cops goes for the kill
THIS JUST IN: Ald. Marsha Rummel, chair of the Common Council’s Subcommittee on Police & Community Relations, has canceled Monday’s scheduled presentation by the lawyers who negotiated a $3.35 million settlement in the Tony Robinson shooting. The alderman did so on the advice of city attorney Mike May. May took action after a complaint from Ald. Paul Skidmore. For gawd’s sake, the…
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Chief Mike Koval was just fined $22,000
UPDATE: Mayor Soglin and Ald. Skidmore have introduced a measure to reimburse Police Chief Mike Koval for the $22,000 he spent defending himself before the Police and Fire Commisson. The Madison Police and Fire Commission finally — FINALLY! — ruled on the Progressive Dane/Sharon Irwin complaint against Police Chief Mike Koval. (The PFC heard…
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Blow the whistle on the Michigan Wolverines
UPDATE: Isthmus co-founder Fred Milverstedt sent this letter to the Wolverines: 3/15/17 To: D.J. Wilson, Men’s Basketball Athletic Department University of Michigan 1000 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2201 Young Mr. Wilson: Caught your display on national TV. You are a punk, self-absorbed and socially stupid, if not totally ignorant. I’d like to see…
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Your squire could not have said it better
As liberal as they come, a good Democrat, a gay man living in a relationship on Madison’s Isthmus. That is Greg Humphrey, a former radio news man and aide to a Democrat(ic) legislator. I am proud to call him a friendly acquaintance. He blogs at Caffeinated Politics as “Deke Rivers.” His blog resides on my every…
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Relentless Brewers edge closer to World Series glory
“Ueck has two statues at the park: one outside where fans leave empty beer cans as tribute, and another inside, in the thin air of the upper deck, a nod to those Miller Lite commercials in which Ueck got marooned in the nosebleeds. This was Ueck’s ball club as much as anyone’s. Yount underlined it before for Game 1, when he walked out for the first pitch wearing one of Uecker’s glorious car-salesman plaid blazers.” — Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
Today’s Laff Riot!
If anyone else had been picked for MVP, Wm Contreras would have tapped his helmet until ABS got it right.
Just saw a kid with a shirt that says “2/3 of the earth is covered with water. The other third is covered by Sal Frelich.”