I posted yesterday on the immoral and disordered policy of John Chianelli, Milwaukee County’s mental health director. Chianelli has implemented a plan to house female mental patients with male ones, with the supposed goal of trading the risk of male-on-male physical violence for male-on-female sexual assault. The policy of trading injury this way among mental…

Like most people, I’ve heard the expression that leopards don’t change their spots. It’s so commonplace that I can’t remember when I first heard it. Here’s a picture of a leopard, with a characteristic, spotted coat. Impressive. I’d guess that if the photographer went back the next day, and took another picture, the spots would…

In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, there’s a shocking story entitled, “Mental Health Exec Defends Sex Crime Risk,” about the dangerous practice of placing female mental patients with male mental patients. John Chianelli, the county administrator of the Behavioral Health Division, told county supervisors during a closed-door session last month that segregating men and women would…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website has a story and accompanying video about a badger found in a Milwaukee post office. Reporter Meg Jones describes the badger’s adventure: A wayward badger somehow managed to get into a building at the main post office in downtown Milwaukee this morning…. A Department of Natural Resources warden was called…

Can’t say he was striving for uncertainty: Police: Man Awaiting Sobriety Takes Last Swig.

Not Whitewater, but Memphis. Universally wrong in so many ways: A Memphis woman called police after she found her [28-year old] son stealing prescription sedatives from her bra…. [She] told [the] officer she awakened before dawn to find her son filching prescription Xanax from her bra, where she kept it to prevent him from stealing…

There are all sorts of odd findings while writing a blog, while being a modern-day pamphleteer. Here are some assorted stats from FREE WHITEWATER in April: Most common search search phrase leading to the site: Whitewater WI Least common (among others searched only once): sample of potato farming business Most common browser: Internet Explorer. Least…

Cats – truly remarkable and resilient. See, Domestic Tabby in SC Adopts Abandoned Bobcats.

Thanks very much to everyone who submitted an opinion on whether there should be comments at FREE WHITEWATER. I thought I’d publish a non-binding poll about whether to include moderated comments on some or all posts. Most respondents, a bit more than half, voted for comments on some posts, designated as ‘Open Forum’ feature. (The…

From the Onion, America’s finest news source, comes a story of foreign innovation that merits commendation — VERTUS, FRANCE – In an effort to provide second-place finishers with a taste of the champagne enjoyed by true winners, vintner Duval-Leroy unveiled a new sparkling wine Monday designed to be bitterly consumed by runners-up. “‘Deuxieme’ balances the…

There’s recently-discovered footage of an episode of the GE Theater entitled, “The Dark, Dark Hours.” Ronald Reagan and James Dean star. Reagan’s character keeps his nerve, holds his ground, and overcomes a threat. Admirable. Enjoy. Hat tip for the pointer to Allahpundit.

I’m sure that everyone in Wisconsin has seen video of a meteoro streaking across our skies. Here are two followup stories. First, over at Walworth County Today, there’s a story about discovered meteorites that have struck Wisconsin since the 1860s. See, Walworth County meteorite of ’55 struck near Zenda. Second, here’s a story about a…

Consider a classroom, with a teacher of Euclidean geometry. The teacher lectures on the Elements, and summarizes the work, book by book. The description of the first ten books is conventional and unremarkable. However, when the teacher comes to book eleven, he tells the students that it’s about Euclid’s postulate of wavy lines, that undulate…