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New Address
Blogs, Business, Press
Changes
We bloggers on MyCommunityNow and LakeCountryNow websites were informed by letter today that our blogs will be eliminated effective March 31, 2016. The reasoning was that since the Journal Company is “on the verge of moving into new ownership” they “want responsibility for all of the content posted on our site”. We were told we could still post comments to their content if we chose….
Blogging is in my DNA at this point. To simply discontinue would be very difficult for me…and probably for those around me. So, I will seek out a good proposition on a new site between now and the end of this iteration of Curmudgeon’s Corner, and will publish that new link a few times in the days remaining…as we were kindly told we were permitted to do under the new rules.
More to come…
Blogs, Miscreants
Wisconsin’s Troll Queen
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Don’t most people work at least eight?
Quit if you need to, and I appreciate what you gave us over the years, Andrew, but 7 hours of work a day is just not that grueling Via Andrew Sullivan says blogging — 7 hours a day, day after day — “was killing me.” @ Althouse.
Blogs, Crime, Faith, Misconduct
4.1.15 @ 7 AM: Pastor Implicated in Gang-Rape Threat Still Listed on Church Website
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Blogs, Crime, Faith, Misconduct
Lutheran pastor resigns after being linked to email threatening gang rape
Van Fossen said she’d been working on the essay for a few weeks and that its publication was in no way timed to the trooper’s killing, which she called "an absolute tragedy." The most extreme response to the post, Van Fossen said, was a screed dated March 27 from Wendt’s home email address calling her…
Blogs, Legislation, Legislature, Unions
Live blog: Right-to-work bill moves forward
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Not by a long shot
Via Andrew Sullivan leaves blogging, gives rise to “blogging is dead” columns @ Blogging Blue.
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Bucks win over struggling Knicks
Blogs, Free Speech, Marquette
Professor-Blogger treated as danger to others
Blogs, Free Speech, Marquette
Marquette strikes against professor-blogger’s academic and expressive freedom
The university is continuing to review your conduct and during this period–and until further notice–you are relieved of all teaching duties and all other faculty activities, including, but not limited to, advising, committee work, faculty meetings and any activity that would involve your interaction with Marquette students, faculty and staff. Should any academic appeals arise…
Blogs, Free Speech, Marquette
Marquette faculty attack blogger’s campus free-speech reporting
Out over the weekend, a nasty attack on this blog by several Marquette Arts & Sciences Department chairs – and signed onto by a handful of Marquette faculty – posted on a blog that has been dedicated, for the last few days, to harassing us. It resulted from our reporting of the misconduct of a…
Blogs, Gubernatorial race 2014, Mary Burke, Press
Bice, very Bice: Reporter-blogger who channeled plagiarism story returns to topic
Via Consultant in Burke plagiarism flap accuses critics of hypocrisy @ JS No Quarter Blog.
Blogs
Complete
Four years ago, when Scott Walker was elected for the first time, the Siren came to ferry Wisconsin progressives through the rough waters of GOP domination. 1,445 posts later, the Siren’s job is complete. We would have preferred to have bid you all a fond farewell with Mary Burke as our next Governor, but that…
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Simpson says he’s right about Esenberg
Via Cognitive Dissidence: Mr. Esenberg, I Have My Facts Straight! @ Cognitive Dissidence.
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Esenberg says he’s been criticized erroneously
I noticed that Purple Wisconsin has added Jeff Simpson as a blogger. I suspect that this won’t end well, but I have no other public comment. Mr. Simpson has decided to attack me and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. I have no problem with that. Getting attacked by lefties is not bad for business…
Blogs, Politics
FightingBob shuts down
Blogs, Books, Gov. Walker, Press
Interested parties
On September 1, the Post published a column from Thiessen criticizing the idea of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney running for president again in 2016. In the piece, Thiessen identified Scott Walker as one of several “successful governors” that would be a preferable candidate. Thiessen co-authored Walker’s 2013 book, a fact the columnist has previously disclosed when writing about the governor for the Post but…
Blogs, Open Government, Press, Surveillance
Peak Investigative Activism?
Via “For about a year, the global enterprise you might call Glenn Greenwald, Inc. has been taking off like a red-hot app” @ Althouse.
Blogs, Free Speech, Law, Legislature, Liberty
Assemblyman throws his weight around
Blogs, Free Speech, Law, Legislature, Liberty
Madison blogger holds firm against Assemblyman’s legal threats
Early this afternoon, Krug responded to an email from me and wrote: “Do you intend to retract the following statements? ‘And cynical, corrupt politicians are providing political cover for the polluters.’ ‘Instead Krug is assisting Scott Walker, Walker’s DNR and the Dairy Business Association in their project in which one objective is to contaminate and…
Blogs, Free Speech, Law, Legislature, Liberty, WISGOP
The Assemblyman’s assault against blogging
Perhaps Rep. Paul Krug still hasn’t figured out that now that he’s a politician, he’s also a public figure open to criticism. It’s a distinction that protects private citizens from the full force of the media. Via The GOP Flip-Flop; they’re now the party of continuous Frivolous Lawsuits @ Democurmudgeon.
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Moving to moderated
So you can comment on this blog. You can criticize me or call me a fool. But you can’t pretend to be somebody else and you can’t use scatological references or make offensive remarks about Scott Walker or the President’s daughters. You can’t defame people. You can’t link to … well I don’t know what…
Blogs, UW Madison
UW-Madison loses a blogger
Via Poison blogger Deborah Blum leaving UW-Madison for MIT @ State Journal On Campus Blog.
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Happy Anniversary
Blogs, Courts
Perhaps it’s time to hit the showers
I guess I should help the judge out with some advice. I’ll just say that there is the option of quitting judging. Once you’ve reached the point where you can retire — and Kopf is 66 and has already taken senior status — it’s not such a sacrifice to put your personal, daring, expressive writing…
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Happy Anniversary
Blogs, Press
Newsmaker and Blogger for the Journal Sentinel
Blogs
Cover
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Dane101.com shuts down
It is with a heavy heart that we the editors have made the difficult decision to suspend Dane101.com. The site will be archived on January 27, 2014 after the Dane101 event Fire Ball VI: Gods and Monsters. The plan is that the site will remain up and data available for as long as we can…
Blogs, Legislation, Politics
Blaska promises all-out hell…if you don’t read his blog
If only I had known it was that simple! State Sen. Jon Erpenbach promised “all-out hell” if the Senate took up abortion legislation. Not just plain-old hell or pretty-bad hell or even a Paul Fanlund column. No, the Democrat went all fire and brimstone by promising All-Out H-E-Double Hockey Sticks … more» Via Blaska.