Update: This meeting may be moved to the Edgerton Library. I’ve written before about a police dog in Edgerton, Wisconsin that bit a police officer, and attacked a city worker, but was removed from service by a unamoious vote of the Edgerton City Council. (The council overrode the unsound decision of the Public Safety [sic]…

American ingenuity. When asked why he did it, Jonathon Trappe replied, Didn’t you ever have this dream, grabbing on to a bunch of toy balloons and floating off? Wonderful and admirable. See, American Crosses English Channel with Helium Balloons

Conditions are truly – wait for it – even worse than dog-eat-dog in New York: New York: Man Bites Man in Fight Over Dogs.

I see that in Nevada, Democrats have been teasing a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Sue Lowden, by hiring people to walk around in chicken suits at her campaign stops. They hit upon the idea after Lowden said that perhaps voters should barter for health care, as when “our grandparents would bring a chicken to…

Here’s the Friday open comments post, following reader responses to a recent poll. The use of pseudonyms and anonymous postings will be fine. Although the template has a space for a name, email address, and website, those who want to leave a field blank can do so. Comments will be moderated, against profanity or trolls.…

The more one looks, the more one sees that the director of Milwaukee’s Behavioral Department, and its Mental Health Complex, presides over an institution that has failed the mental patients who have sought, or been sent for, treatment there. John Chianelli, who cavalierly suggested a trade off of patient violence for patient sexual assault, confronts…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a paper willing to support watchdog journalism, has an editorial, entitled, Safety Must Come First: Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and administrators at the county’s Mental Health Complex need to act now to correct problems there. Here’s the Journal Sentinel‘s view: The steps that are being taken to correct problems at…

Whitewater, Wisconsin is a place of considerable natural beauty. The finest buildings in our small town are nothing as against the country and forests nearby. Just outside the city, and in nearby towns, one finds farms with cows, chickens, goats, and domesticated animals that look like small llamas. They’re alpacas, and are docile, harmless, small…

I’ve written before about Milwaukee County’s Behavioral Health Division, and sexual assaults among mental patients at its Mental Health Center. BHD’s Director, John Chianelli, has implemented a policy of trading male-on-male violence among mental patients for male-on-female sexual assault. I’ve posted about Chianelli’s policy, and the tragedy that is conduct at the MHC, before. See,…

I’ve written before about the perverse and immoral policy of John Chianelli, director of Milwaukee County’s Behavioral Health Division. Chianelli has implemented a policy, by his own admission, of trading male-on-male violence among mental patients for male-on-female sexual assault. I’ve posted about Chianelii’s policy, and the shameful irresponsibility of Milwaukee County officials over it, before.…

I’m not a member of either major party, but I admire those who are who are clear and direct. There is so much to be said for a man or woman who can speak plainly of his or her beliefs, and defend those beliefs vigorously. It’s both false and laughable to pretend that the ambiguous,…

A Tennessee woman was charged with forcing her young son, aged five, to smoke a cigarette to teach him a lesson on – wait for it – not smoking. Bad idea under any circumstances, but especially when the mother had marijuana in her car. See, Woman Charged After Forcing Young Son to Smoke.