Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This Thursday’s column for the Waukesha Freeman is on the recall of Alderman Peggy Bull. That election unfortunately falls on primary election day, too.
That means only one more column before the primary. That was not how I planned it, unfortunately. Too many things happening with the city of Waukesha, our [...]

I have some new commenters here. That’s always good, but I’m asking everyone to please obey the rules. A couple of highlights for the new people:
Comments are not only allowed, they are encouraged. I allow the maximum freedom possible but, quoting National Review’s classified advertising policy, one man’s freedom is another man’s [...]

Some of you may have noticed this morning that my site was offline for a few hours after my domain registration expired. Oops. Since it was good enough for Moses and David Letterman, let me offer you the ten reasons why my site was down:
10) I was not master of my domain.
9) [...]

I’ve been under the weather with an annoying cough for a while now. While down with this thing, spam has invaded like broken windows in a Lee Holloway rental property. While the spam filter is extremely efficient, there may have been a few legitimate comments prevented from being posted. If that’s [...]

Unfortunately, I’ve had to turn on the “moderation” feature for the comments, at least for a while.  Comments will have to be read and approved by me before they can appear on the site.  I didn’t want to do it, but I’m forced to do it.  There have been a couple of incidents.  Someone pretended [...]

I often refer to this as an exercise in writing rather than a political website. While I write mostly about politics, I sometimes get the chance to write on other things.
Last week I took a break from politics with my Waukesha Freeman column to write about my camping trip with my son. [...]

Our friend StB just passed his 2000th blog post. Congratulations. Drinks all around, I’m sure.

I’m going to Las Vegas in July. July. What’s the temperature going to be, 112 in the shade?
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Turns out Andrew Sullivan relies upon ghost writers more than Sarah Palin. One of his “ghost bloggers” at the Atlantic, Patrick Appel, just outed Sullivan as having multiple personalities when writing:
As always, it a pleasure to step in while Andrew gets some much needed rest. Guest-blogging is not all that different than my day-to-day activities [...]