http://www.thedailypage.com/daily Daily content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:27:51 CST Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:15:17 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35322 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35322 The Road Runner, too. Not legally, but in practice. The State of Wisconsin acknowledges that it does not have the resources to cross check the recall petition signatures for duplicates, made-up names, fake addresses, or ineligible voters. Not even with $650,000 allocated to the Government Accountability Board for the job. GAB just won't be able to data-enter 540,000+ signatures to automate a file-check. Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:29:41 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35321 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35321 Stately Blaska Manor U.S.A. hosted an international Thanksgiving this year. To a table groaning with bounty from the Blaska Experimental Work Farm, the Squire and his family made welcome a young student from China and a student couple from Saudi Arabia. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:31:26 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35308 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35308 Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I like a little extra pepper on my T-bird. Ann of Althouse is convinced that Russ Feingold will run for governor should the recall petition drive succeed. The former U.S. senator remains a super hero to the Left: Spiderman with a PAC. But he is still trying to digest the rancid meat of his defeat one year ago. The Squire has tasted defeat himself and it does not come with stuffing and gravy. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:53:30 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35273 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35273 The featured book in the Karl Rove Reading Room here at the Stately Manor is Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. Deservedly, it is #1 on the <i>New York Times</i> best-seller lists, both in hard-cover and -- fittingly -- its e-book incarnation. It is a chronicle of how one baby boomer "dented the universe" by driving the best and the brightest to "think different." Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:14:51 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35213 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35213 There is an inverse relationship: the more vituperative the language, the weaker the case. It is no coincidence that the recall movement uses doomsday language to describe what are, at root, merely policy differences. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:40:33 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35198 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35198 These are difficult times. The Great Recession is, functionally, in its third year. So, what is the Dane County Board's response? Pay raises all around! Break out the sham-pag-nee! A 32 percent hike for chairman Scott McDonell and 3 percent for the other 36 members! Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:49:50 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35191 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35191 The Eleventh Hour sometimes means, "at the last minute" or "in the nick of time." But it also has connotations of war and peace. Today is 11/11/11. That is 63 in binary numbering. This morning it was 11:11:11 a.m. on 11/11/11. In binary, that is 4,091. The only thing better was 11:11:11 a.m. (or p.m.) on 11/11/1111 when Henry I, the third of the Norman line, was king of England. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:07:07 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35150 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35150 Welcome to this edition of crime stoppers. State Sen. Dale Schultz is the progressives' favorite Republican at the moment, other than long-retired or -- better -- dead Republicans, of course. Schultz takes pride of place for being the lone Republican holdout on Gov. Scott Walker's public employee compensation reforms. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:38:36 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35146 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35146 Your über-blogger warned that a new tax could be coming our way, courtesy of the Progressive Dane contingent. It is the Dane County wheel tax. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:35:56 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35137 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35137 If you write often enough it will happen to you. The eminent personage you have so faithfully profiled is arrested for window peeping the morning your opus is due on the editor's desk. You rewrite like crazy but there is no time to undo the thrust of the panegyric you spent weeks constructing. Yes, your subject is a window peeper, you concede in a parenthetical note, but other than that, a man for all seasons! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:06:10 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35127 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35127 When our liberal you-know-whats cry salty tears over Governor Walker's "war on the middle class," their concern is usually expressed in terms of unionized public sector employees and not so much the Joe Lunch Buckets in the private sector. My thesis was reconfirmed last week when I crossed rhetorical swords with Peg Lautenschlager, the former Democratic state attorney general who was speaking from Fond du Lac, on Wisconsin Public Radio's <i>Week in Review</i> program. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:24:05 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35090 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35090 If ever a man wanted arresting, it's Matt R. Like many Progressives, he wants to bring the disorder of the Capitol Rotunda this February and March into the legislative chambers themselves. If ever a man wanted arresting, it's Matt R. Like many Progressives, he wants to bring the disorder of the Capitol Rotunda this February and March into the legislative chambers themselves. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:27:24 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35079 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35079 Who will be the next Steve Jobs? You simply must read his sister's eulogy, published online in Sunday's <i>New York Times</i>. (I didn't see it in my print edition.) I want to thank his birth parents for choosing life. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:16:06 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35026 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35026 A Dane County prosecutor says she believes Madison Ald. Brian Solomon is guilty of sexually assaulting a city employee who is assigned to work with the common council. But the district attorney's office won't bring him to trial only because, it says, getting a unanimous jury to convict would be chancy. Is the Left calling for Ald. Solomon to resign? Not that I can tell. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:06:05 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35019 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35019 Our soap opera heroine may have hit hard times, but hard usually doesn't come with three bedrooms and a fireplace on Cape Cod. The Mitchards will not be living in a van down by the river, however much it may seem that way to the novelist. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:41:28 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35004 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35004 I took the training, now all I need is the $50 permit to conceal the handgun, knife, pepper spray, or Taser of my choice on my person or in my automobile. Wisconsin's new concealed carry law goes into effect on Tuesday, November 1, and I intend to be among the first to qualify. The only question is this: How often will I actually use that CC permit? Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:39:18 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34960 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34960 Even at my advanced age, the Squire of the Stately Manor likes to experience new thrills. Sunday, your intrepid blogmeister accompanied the Divine Miss Vicki, rock star of the airwaves, to the Stoughton Conservation Club to experience our first trap shoot. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:30:41 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34949 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34949 Is pessimism a Wisconsin trait, something borne of winter's cold and dark? Or has it been nurtured by too many years of disappointment (and two years of Barack Obama)? Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:16:59 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34903 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34903 Our liberal-progressive You Know Whats are riding the bomb down to the ground like Slim Pickens in the movie <i>Dr. Strangelove</i>. The MacIver Institute finds that the core group of the professional protestors who have been intimidating private business, stalking elected officials and disrupting the legislature are cozy with leading Democrats, including Assembly minority leader Peter Barca. Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:01:17 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34893 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34893 Frank Lasee is a fine looking man approaching age 50, the prime of life. He stands 6 feet, 4 inches tall. That was the first question I asked over lunch at Cooper's on the Square last week: his height. Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:20:15 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34862 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34862 The Professional Left is all a-twitter because it thinks it has found its tea party, which our progressive you-know-whats will tell you in the same breath isn't real or if it is real it is racist, except for Herman Cain, who only proves how racist is the Tea Party, or something. Yes, our acquaintances from the port side are claiming Occupy Wall Street as the unlikely vessel of their salvation. Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:13:32 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34834 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34834 Saw every game of the 1982 playoffs against Mr. October and the Angels and then the St. Louis Cardinals. Nothing like being there to really feel the electricity. The opening game enjoyed the only sunny day; it misted for all the remaining games, as I remember. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:02:46 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34827 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34827 As children in the 1950s, we suggested to mother that we should leave a glass of milk and cookies for Santa Claus. She suggested that Santa would better appreciate a bottle of Schlitz beer. "The same kind dad likes," we kids marveled. They were still making Fauerbach in Madison, Potosi, Chief Oshkosh, People's, Walters, and Rhinelander beer in those days. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:02:39 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34781 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34781 Saw Tommy Thompson at his annual charitable golf gathering at Door Creek on Friday and again recently at a Madison eatery. The man has never looked better. Yes, he is 69, but he looks and acts much more vigorous than the man he will replace in the U.S. Senate, Herb Kohl, age 76. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:25:40 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34769 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34769 The reactionary forces of the status quo, their backs to the wall, have unleashed a desperate counter-offensive to stymie the popular education reform movement. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:16:50 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34729 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34729 Today, the Blogge settles some long-running arguments. But first, this encomium from a liberal who claims not to be the Jeremy I'm looking for or any Jeremy at all. (So, why does he act like one?) Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:52:01 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34696 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34696 Matt, who infamously called for making the state we love "ungovernable," this morning celebrated the pouring of beer on State Rep. Robin Vos, one of the most thoughtful and caring public servants in the Legislature. Matt said something about a long tradition of peasants throwing tomatoes at the king, blah blah blah. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:51:40 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34657 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34657 Odd, isn't it, how the settled issues keep getting so untidied? I've been pounding my own rhetorical plastic bucket lately over the anti-intellectualism rampant in this university town and state capital. My <i>Isthmus</i> opinion piece, "Madison libs have no interest in opposing viewpoints" (unless it is to boycott them), has drawn more than the usual share of online comments and letters to the editor. Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:15:20 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34586 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34586 What would you do if someone suddenly bolted out of their chair and ran toward you with a hand -- possibly a fist -- raised in the air? Buried in the 70 pages of sheriff's department interviews with the seven State Supreme Court justices and various staff into the June 13 kerfuffle at the court is this common sense answer. It comes from a surprising source: the law clerk to Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:57:41 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34581 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=34581 The most beautiful season of the year is upon us. Cool nights, spring water-clear days, the promise of fall color, the indentured servants at the Experimental Work Farm bringing in the last of the Jade and Roma II green bean harvest while the Squire quaffs a chilled sauvignon blanc. Revenue League golf tournament coming up Thursday, then our beloved Green Bay Packers preview the NFC Championship Game.