Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-nine. Sunrise is 6:30 AM and sunset 4:45 PM, for 10h 15m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1870, the United States Weather Bureau (later renamed the National…
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 7.26.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of eighty-nine. Sunrise is 5:41 AM and sunset 8:21 PM, for 14h 39m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 38.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1775, the office that would later become the United States…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 7.21.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy, with light evening rain, and a high of eighty-one. Sunrise is 5:36 AM and sunset 8:25 PM, for 14h 49m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 0.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6:30…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 7.13.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of eighty-one. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:32 PM, for 15h 02m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 45.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM via audiovisual conferencing. On this day in…
Budget, Coronavirus, Public Health, University, UW Madison, UW System
UW System President Ray Cross’s Overreach
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Outgoing UW System President Ray Cross claims he has a long-range plan for the System, and he’s insistent that now is the time for its implementation. Henry Redman of the Wisconsin Examiner reports on the reasonable concern that Cross’s rush to implementation presents in UW faculty worry about ‘power grab’ by Cross at budget listening…
Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit
Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy. One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 4.5.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Palm Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of fifty-four. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 7:26 PM, for 12h 59m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1792, Pres. Washington first exercises a veto of federal legislation.…
Coronavirus, Meals, Poverty, Public Health, School District
Assistance Takes Time
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
So one hears that an effort toward assistance for children’s breakfast & lunch meals received a lower initial response than some expected. Perhaps, but responses take time – especially in a community where large numbers of children live in poor families that almost certainly do not have conventional broadband access. Initial responses are not indicative…
Charity, Coronavirus, Local Government, School District
Whitewater’s Residents Judge Wisely
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There has been some uncertainty in Whitewater about how cautious one should be in response to the coronavirus pandemic. As it turns out, Whitewater’s residents have had the right view of this, recognizing as they have the need for distance between people to limit the spread of disease. One reads, in an email from the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 1.2.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of forty. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:32 PM, for 9h 07m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 43.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 3:30 PM. On this day in 1918, Wisconsin troops…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.22.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of thirty-seven. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 4:26 PM, for 9h 29m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1963 in Dallas, Pres. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John…
Candidate Fitzgerald, Congress, Gerrymandering, Law
Candidate Fitzgerald: On Guns
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
It’s often the case that bad goes to worse, and that’s true for the WISGOP. The Fifth Congressional District, now represented by Thurston Howell III F. James Sensenbrenner, a gerrymandered, septuagenarian multi-millionaire who votes with Trump almost all the time, may have a new and worse Republican congressman. State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, who in 2016…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Education, Ethics, Law, Marketing, Misconduct, Negligence, Nepotism, Official Misconduct, Sexual Harassment, University
For UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Talking Points Won’t Be Enough
by JOHN ADAMS • • 9 Comments
Yesterday, I posted on The Marketing of Misinformation: UW-Whitewater’s Use of a Counterfeit ‘Campus Safety’ Study. Today, here is a look at some of the university administration’s talking points in response to long-standing acts of sexual harassment and assault on campus. (They’re from the new university chancellor’s recorded interview with a local newspaper.) From the video…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.18.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will see morning thunderstorms with a high of eighty. Sunrise is 6:05 AM and sunset 7:51 PM, for 13h 46m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 91.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1864, the 2nd, 6th, 7th, 37th, and 38th Wisconsin Infantry…