I once posted a story about an adult man who called 911 while drunk to complain that his mother took away his beer. Even that shiftlessness pales in comparison to a recent story from Georgia. In the new case, an adult man allegedly held his mother hostage at gunpoint for six hours because she would…

There’s a story at the Janesville Gazette‘s website entitled, Democrats Split Over How to Defeat Ryan about the search for a candidate to run against 1st Congressional district Representative Paul Ryan. Democratic officials have found no wealthy, self-sufficient candidates to run, and have less than a week before the filing deadline. One possible challenger, Paulette…

Some readers may live in places where no one’s ever heard of cricket spitting. If you’ve not heard of this fine custom and competition, you can learn all the basics from a story at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel entitled, County fair’s contest is cricket: Distance spitting has age brackets, lots of participants.” Karen Herzog of…

There’s a sad story about a dog that was locked in a hot car yesterday – in temperatures outside that were in the eighties – when its owner left to attend a court date. She has another one now. See, Woman Arrested After Dog Dies in Locked Car.

Here’s an update to the story about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s hiring of a Doyle Administration official — with an offer letter to that official — before he had even sent in a resume. Wisconsin Assembly representative Nass subsequently called on the Wisconsin Attorney General, J.B. Van Hollen, to investigate. For prior posts, see Update:…

There’s a story at CBS news about how Chrysler is using ads in which an actor portraying George Washington drives a Dodge Charger. The ad is – wait for it – supposedly an effort to appeal to political supporters of the Tea Party movement. Even if Chrysler hadn’t accepted billions in bailout money – and…

Englishman Sam Bompas contends that he’s a food architect. Hard to believe that England was once a great nation. See, Jam Said to be Made from Princess Di’s Hair.

At the Washington Post, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Harvard professor of public policy Robert Putnam have an essay entitled, A Better Welcome for Our Nation’s Immigrants. It’s an historically sound reflection on immigrants in America, with recommendations for public policy: Immigration has always caused frictions and controversies: “On our national birthday, and amid…

As published in the La Crosse Tribune, a scheme to alter a check received from a jail.

There’s a story a Wired Science about a red panda recently born at the National Zoo. Lisa Grossman writes that, “[d]espite their name, red pandas (Ailurus fulgens, also called “lesser panda,” “bear cat” and “firefox”) are more closely related to raccoons than to giant pandas. They live in cool bamboo forests in the Sichuan and…

Good for them – it’s a worthy thing to blaze one’s own trail. Best wishes to Marty and Denise. See, “Wedding on Aisle 9! Couple Weds at Wisconsin Grocery.”

It was predictable that if Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors Chairman Holloway submitted a motion to censure supervisor Lynne De Bruin for revealing the truth about the abuses at the county’s Mental Health Complex, he did so knowing that he had the votes lined up to win. Those votes he had, and the county board…

In Nick Gillespie Discusses the “Death of Decency” On CNBC’S Powerlunch, Reason’s Gillespie contends that although popular entertainment has grown coarser, there are many positive social trends that are moving in the right direction. I agree on both counts, and I’d suggest that if pop culture has grown coarser, the answer is change in private…

They only look cute to dupe humanity into a false sense of complacency: The truth is far more sinister: A recent story in the New York Times, entitled, Chimps, Too, Wage War and Annex Rival Territory, describes accurately how dangerous chimpanzees can be. It’s about time someone wrote honestly and forthrightly about the chimp menace.…