There is good political news.
Senator steps on his Johnson again.
https://first-draft.com/2022/01/05/malaka-of-the-week-senator-ron-johnson/
Lee bad, Grant good.
The Journal Sentinel’s editorial board: But it’s not the court’s fault that the governor and top lawmakers can’t work together for the common good. Nor is it the court’s job to set pu...
https://first-draft.com/2020/05/19/you-dont-understand-or-you-do-and-in-either-case-were-all-dead/
Greetings from Adrastos World Headquarters. There’s not a lot to report on the personal front. Dr. A has settled in to work at home with the occasional foray to the largely deserted Med School ...
https://first-draft.com/2020/04/10/sheckys-bleak-week-in-review-not-so-good-friday-edition/
This is by design: The bill includes plans to lower voter turnout by adding a third statewide election in the spring of 2020, even though it will cost taxpayers millions of additional dollars�...
https://first-draft.com/2018/12/04/the-gop-in-wisconsin-and-elsewhere-is-anti-democracy/
Don’t like the election results? Neuter them: The lame duck legislation would, for example, prevent Mr. Evers from fulfilling a campaign promise to take Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit ...
https://first-draft.com/2018/12/04/go-tell-that-midnight-rider/
On this hallowed Christmas Eve, everyone in my house is pretty much asleep or trying to pretend to be in hopes of getting out of work in preparation for the Wigilla celebration tonight. As my wif...
https://first-draft.com/2017/12/24/if-jesus-had-been-born-in-wisconsin/
“Scars are souvenirs you never lose. The past is never far.” – Goo Goo Dolls, “Name” “My parents’ basement.” Those three words kept coming up this week as I met with student after...
Dear Sen. Darling, Rep. Nygren and other members of the Joint Finance Committee, News reports have indicated that your group has included in its most recent version of the state budget some “co...
The reason this post is late is because I spent the last hour and a half looking up everything I could find on Carry-Lite Duck Decoys manufactured in Milwaukee. Am I a hunter? No. Do I care about...
https://first-draft.com/2017/06/02/rummage-sales-are-life-the-rest-is-just-details/
Every two years, Wisconsin Republicans come home and see that the UW burned the roast. Or left a mess in the kitchen… Or didn’t buy more beer… Or forgot to pick up the dry cleaning… There...
https://first-draft.com/2017/03/31/uw-budget-cuts-theres-always-a-reason/
David Clarke meets Tammy Baldwin.
https://first-draft.com/2017/02/02/wingnut-mailbag-on-wisconsin-edition/
It seems that Rep. David Murphy, who chairs the state’s committee on colleges and universities despite never having graduated from one, came out swinging against a course titled “The Problem ...
https://first-draft.com/2016/12/23/the-problem-of-whiteness-meets-the-problem-with-the-witless/
My dad held very few points of pride when it came to things he did or didn’t do. He never smoked at all, he doesn’t “owe anyone anything” when it comes to financial concerns and he didn�...
I spent the last week watching the 30 for 30 documentary series “OJ: Made in America.” I have to admit it was intriguing, if not way, way, way too long. It’s been more than 20 years since t...
https://first-draft.com/2016/07/01/fitzgerald-to-mps-bitch-dont-make-me-hit-you/
The old adage goes that there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. In the wake of yet another “no confidence” vote against Gov. Scott Walker’s handpicked board of cron...
https://first-draft.com/2016/05/13/fun-with-statistics-scott-walker-edition/
Adrastos on the Oscars, Randy Newman, Making a Murderer, and Reagan's gun nuttery.
Yeah, this is totally what students need to save them from debt: Gov. Scott Walker announced a legislative package on college affordability Monday that would eliminate the cap on student loan int...
https://first-draft.com/2016/01/15/let-them-eat-cake-student-loan-edition/
Digital technology was supposed to make life easier for us and in many ways it has. Letters used to take days to arrive. Now, emails and texts bounce back and forth in seconds. Phones used to be ...
https://first-draft.com/2016/01/08/the-more-we-see-the-less-we-know/
We can’t let the corpses lie quiet when there are strip malls need building, you know: Madison— Landowners could excavate and possibly develop some of the surviving Indian mounds of Wiscons...
Today in unintendedly hilarious things newspapers do on the Internet: The Wisconsin State Journal, like many newspapers, offers its photos for sale, for people who want prints of what appears in ...
https://first-draft.com/2015/10/25/wisconsin-state-legislators-i-mean-their-photos-for-sale/
I have never understood concealed carry. I grew up around hunters, guys who used guns like the instruments they are, instruments by which food can be gotten and eaten and a poor winter thus survi...
https://first-draft.com/2015/10/13/more-guns-more-guns-more-guns/
Scott Walker agreed to take a pic w/this guy whose sign said “Walker 4 president,” but then he flipped it around… pic.twitter.com/UlhyLtDnNZ — Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) August 3...
Dear Governor Walker, Congratulations on finally declaring your candidacy for president, which was perhaps the world’s worst kept secret. It’s been pretty clear that, unless you had plans to ...
https://first-draft.com/2015/07/17/an-open-letter-to-scott-walker/
One thing we have to do immediately is prosecute whistleblowers: The state budget passed this week by the Legislature repeals a law that encourages whistle-blowers with evidence of Medicaid fra...
https://first-draft.com/2015/07/12/scott-walkers-lex-luthor-party/
Wisconsin Republicans say SORRY NOT SORRY they were about to gut the state’s open records laws, and we’ll convene a committee to decide when to do this later so there won’t be so much att...
This might be the last post I’m able to accomplish for quite some time. I’m not sure what the future holds, now that the UW Regents brought to you by Carl’s Jr…. er… Scott Walker have f...
It’s tough living with a secret that could force people to look at you in a different way. Friends and colleagues give you that “I thought I KNEW YOU!” look as they ponder their new reality...
My father often spoke in somewhat wistful tones about the concept of The Golden Handshake. It was offered on rare occasion to the men and women of his factory, an opportunity of a lifetime in man...