Good morning.

Flurries (and perhaps thereafter freezing rain) await Whitewater, with a high temperature today of thirty-six. On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it will be a day of showers with a high of fifty-three.

Today marks the anniversary of the day in 1933 when Prohibition ended.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that decades earlier, in 1879,

the Humane Society of Wisconsin was organized in Milwaukee. Inspired by Henry Bergh, a New York City philanthropist, and his Humane Movement, the state Humane Society was formed to protect both animals and children.  However, with the formation of child protection laws in the early 1900s, the Humane Society of Wisconsin began to focus primarily on animal protection. [Source: Humane Society of Wisconsin].

Good morning.

Whitewater’s Christmas parade is tonight at 6 PM, and the day beforehand will be sunny with a high temperature of thirty-six.

The Wisconsin Historical Society remembers one of Wisconsin’s lowest moments:

1954 – McCarthy Censured by Senate

On December 2, 1954, the United States Senate voted to censure Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Declaring his behavior “contrary to senatorial traditions,” the 1954 Senate resolution officially condemned McCarthy’s reign of anti-communist terror.

I wouldn’t call his conduct a reign of terror, but an abuse of political power worthy of censure, surely.