Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:15 PM, for 12h 47m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1966, the landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired…
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Daily Bread, Ethics, Liberty, Public Health, Reasoning, Religion, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.6.21: Formation, Moral
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Labor Day in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 6:26 AM and sunset 7:19 PM, for 12h 53m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2008, the federal government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing…
Daily Bread, Legislature, Litigation, Public Health, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 9.4.21: Nass Digs In
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see showers with a high of 73. Sunrise is 6:24 AM and sunset 7:22 PM, for 12h 58m 51s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 7.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1882, the Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant…
Daily Bread, Public Health, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.3.21: UW-Madison Reports 90% Vaccinated
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:22 AM and sunset 7:24 PM, for 13h 01m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 13.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1777, during the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge, the Flag of the United States…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Medicine, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 8.28.21: Vaccine Testing Falsely Equated with Thalidomide Development
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 94. Sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 18m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 66.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1845, the first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. Beatrice Dupuy reports…
Daily Bread, Employment, Free Markets, Populists, Trumpism, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 8.15.21: The ‘Personal Responsibility’ Crowd Wants a Handout
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:02 AM and sunset 7:55 PM, for 13h 53m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1944, Allied forces land in southern France in Operation Dragoon. Molly Beck reports…
Business, Coronavirus, Employment, Free Markets, Labor, Private Property, Vaccines
No Shirt, No Shoes? No Service
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
The conservative populists talk endlessly about the dangers of socialism (however poorly they grasp the term), but truthfully they’re happy with government mandates or prohibitions that advance their own preferences. Some private employers want to require masks, and others want to require vaccinations, but these right-wing interventionists now screech that private businesses should not be…
Coronavirus, Public Health, Vaccines
The Great Vaccinated/Unvaccinated Divide
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Politics, Public Health, Rhetoric, Trumpism, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP
Steve Nass: Troll-King in Autumn
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
For many years, Steve Nass, as a state representative (now a state senator) was a notable farthest-to-the-right Wisconsin politician. The bête noire of liberals and universities, he was the state’s unmatched troll, criticizing the center-left time and again. Nass was a right-wing populist long before Trump. He was the great troll-king of Wisconsin, firing florid press releases…