http://www.thedailypage.com/daily Daily content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:25:42 CDT Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:46:06 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26279 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26279 Comedian and role model Bill Cosby has taken dead aim at the scourge of victimhood. Cosby has written, with Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint, a blueprint for black and white, alike, to cure the metastasizing pathologies that are destroying many of our Madison neighborhoods. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:27:05 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26268 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26268 The Meadowood Farmers' Market is not actually in Meadowood at all. It is located at Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ, which is several blocks from "the troubles" but maybe that is good. Some of my neighbors might feel like going there -- on safe ground, so to speak -- while some of the (ahem) less established people can still walk there. Who knows, might be good. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:22:37 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26225 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26225 The gangsta look inherent in the low-riders thing is akin to a suspicious lump or unusual bleeding. It's an early warning sign that needs attention, stat! Or, we could wait until he empties his chamber. Might be too late, then. Might be. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:57:13 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26216 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26216 The Jerry Lewis impersonator at The Capital Times has written one of the wackiest, nuttiest editorials of all time. It is such a treat that I had to bring it to a wider audience. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:06:47 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26208 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26208 Action list item #6: Promote positive values. Abandon the victimology message. Get the education and faith communities to pro-actively preach empowerment, self-respect, consideration of and responsibility to others -- to balance off the over-emphasis on “rights.”? Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:44:14 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26204 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26204 I did manage to attend the first hour of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's summit meeting Wednesday morning. I had to leave before the second hour in order to make a previous commitment. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:33:33 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26161 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26161 Several landlords have invited the mayor to take up residence on our troubled streets so that he can experience firsthand what many of our neighbors must put up with in their daily lives. Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:38:07 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26148 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26148 Much like when his village in Italy watched Roberto Benigni win the Academy Award, all throughout Orchard Ridge the cheer went up: "Blaska is second best! Blaska is second best!" Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:22:28 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26137 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26137 I got to think sitting in the back of a squad car is one of the safer places you can be in Meadowood these days. If Karamee Collins Jr. had been in the backseat of a squad car Tuesday night, he might still be alive. At least the boy would have some quality time with a responsible adult. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:37:35 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26103 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26103 Another shooting, another homicide late Tuesday night in the Balsam/Russett Road area. Before 10:15 p.m. last night a teenager was shot in the 5800 block of Balsam Road -- a day and a half after police held a press conference in the neighborhood asking for witnesses to step forward on two previous shootings. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:20:49 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26055 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26055 Elections matter, the Democrats are always telling us. So now we have Democrats ruling the roost in the State Capitol, having finally captured the State Assembly last fall. For the first time in 20 years they control both houses of the Legislature and the governor's office. Aren't we lucky! Wed, 27 May 2009 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25988 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25988 While the nabobs are busy writing obituaries for America's conservative party, Republicans are lighting birthday candles and singing rousing fight songs. While the punditocracy clucks "whither the Republican Party -- the new Whigs?" those of us on the righteous Right are winning back large swaths of the population. Sun, 24 May 2009 16:50:32 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25979 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25979 "Basford's Spin City" is <i>Isthmus</i>'s attempt to abate the ire of the torch-bearing mob, incensed that the bastion of Leftist exposition would allow your congenial host to challenge the one true (but unexamined) faith. Wed, 20 May 2009 09:38:11 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25931 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25931 These days when we go to the Meadowridge branch public library here on the southwest side of town we tell our loved ones, "Cover me, I'm going in to return a book." Thu, 14 May 2009 21:21:31 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25913 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25913 Hey, why not? That's the Madison way, isn't it? Throw it up against the wall, see if it sticks. Watch the recipient stammer, deny, invoke past good deeds, swear to no incorrect thoughts, do a Winston Smith. Wed, 13 May 2009 16:37:17 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25873 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25873 Will wonders never cease?! Now my old boss Dave Zweifel, a lifelong proponent of government as the employer of first resort, has jumped aboard the "right-sizing" bandwagon -- even though said bandwagon seems to be stuck in neutral. Mon, 11 May 2009 11:31:41 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25859 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25859 So the Madison Common Council has reinforced the supposed "right" of children to congregate unsupervised by any responsible adult until late at night (11 p.m. weeknights, midnight Fridays and Saturdays). No, the little darlings, neglected by their parents (should they be lucky to have a set), remain beyond the reach of our policing authorities. Thu, 07 May 2009 12:33:36 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25846 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25846 Well, what can I say. The Madison Common Council this week took one giant step backwards. Instead of strengthening our juvenile curfew laws, it "liberalized" them. Tue, 05 May 2009 15:28:37 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25811 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25811 Thuy is incredibly popular here on the southwest side of town -- and not just in the 20th Aldermanic District. She is a folk hero for organizing two community meetings in the summer of 2007 that changed this city's direction. She will not be silenced. She won re-election unopposed for a reason. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:08:57 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25726 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25726 What does it mean when Elizabeth Burmaster is your party's star government crusader? Your Senator Jefferson Smith via Jimmy Stewart? Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:20:31 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25682 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25682 Been some big changes here at the Blaska Research Center and Experimental Work Farm. Basically, I have come back from the dead. How is that for a post-Easter theme? No, I do not expect to ascend bodily into heaven any time soon, but I was getting pretty ripe. Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:45:30 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25607 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25607 Speak up, Ruben. Spit it out, Mamoulian. E? Eeee? … Are you trying to say “e-lection?” Oh, that's right! There was an election this week. Well, dammit, boy, give me the news. I see, like Tom Hagen, you had to take a drink first. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25503 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25503 <i>The Capital Times</i> has endorsed The Kathleen for re-election as protectoress in chief of Dane County's lands with high-water tables. Surely the bullfrogs are croaking their approval. ("Rib-it. Rib-it.") Also: Alder Thuy seeks an earlier curfew. Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:10:01 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25488 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25488 The Big Government control freaks have sunk their meat hooks into two growth opportunities: the environment and political speech. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:57:56 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25434 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25434 The teachers union? Change agents? Only in the sense of "fork over your change." That is why I think that Rose Fernandez has a better than even chance of defeating teachers union toady Tony Evers. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:45:58 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25380 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25380 Call me a dinosaur. If the world comes down to one last print periodical, I will find it, order up a coffee and a blueberry scone, and enjoy a Saturday morning with my quality newsprint. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:29:18 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25366 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25366 James E. Doyle got a lot smarter when he was elected governor. <i>The Capital Times</i> is throwing a hissy fit that the incumbent has changed his mind about the virtues of removing one of the largest and most consequential state departments from his appointed cabinet. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:44:15 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25341 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25341 Unreported, until this post, is The Kathleen's -- and Dane County's -- continuing nightmare: continued fall-out from the failures of the county's emergency communications center. Now the parents of another victim of the center's malfeasance are bringing legal action. Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:10:13 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25306 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25306 O.K., class, time to take stock. Or, as the comedian Henny Youngman might have said, “Take my stocks. Please.” (All of my cultural references seem to be at least 30 years old.) Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:00:01 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25253 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25253 Remember The New President's pledge to get the U.S, the hell out of Iraq? So, he's keeping up to 50,000 troops there into the foreseeable future, even while acknowledging that our forces in Iraq had "succeeded beyond any expectation," and that Iraqis themselves have made significant political progress, and that "there is renewed cause for hope in Iraq."