Tag: Tommy Thompson
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A truly decent man has died
That would be George Bush Sr. Resquiat in pacem.
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Thanks mom! Scott Walker needed that!
“You’re really doing a good job, Scott.” Tommy Thompson is out on the hustings (whatever those are) campaigning in a red sweater for Scott Walker’s re-election as governor for, really, the first time in four elections (including the recall). What does that tell you? Answer: That Walker is in trouble.
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Wisconsin is waiting ’till next year
Thank you Republicans for Major League Baseball in October Well, hell and damn. Haven’t the Dodgers had more than their fair share of glory? Couldn’t the Gods of baseball have turned that double play in the sixth inning, right before Yasiel Puig hit the playoff series’ only three-run home run? Couldn’t that long fly ball…
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Sad news from Charles Krauthammer
Love the man’s clear-eyed, unsentimental prose and his unblinking commentary on Bret Baier’s Special Report news program on Fox. Charles Krauthammer had a wicked sense of humor. He was a true conservative, critical of Trump (in stark contrast to orange-nosed Sean Trumpitty), and the smartest man in any room he entered. A renowned psychiatrist and Pulitzer…
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Playing head games with Sergio Garcia
Sergio Garcia is why I love golf. Sergio Garcia is why I hate golf. Here’s a guy who won the Masters golf tournament last year. A sentimental favorite who had never won one of golf’s four “major” events despite years of promise, seemingly on the downside of his career. Then he emerges from obscurity to…
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Blaska spills his guts
Doing Ms. Vicki McKenna’s show at 4 p.m. Do tune in. “A lot of people don’t have their needs met.” Could serve as the motto of all cop haters, as spoken by Garrett Lee at Tuesday’s Madison Common Council meeting. Note that the phrase is rendered, tellingly, in the passive voice. Meet My Needs or…