Maybe we should agree that it is simply okay for us to remove the monuments which we deem as not aligning with our current agreed upon values, such as statues of Columbus, and then erect monuments which honor our beliefs and morals at this time. Future generations can decide if our choices were right for…
Culture
Culture
Real cancelation
Think about all the women that got pushed out of jobs because they were being sexually harassed. Or the gay guy that got fired because someone saw him in public w/his partner. Or the Black guy that never got a job in the first place. That was the real "cancel culture." — Jud Lounsbury (@JudLounsbury)…
Culture
Fearless vs. Reckless
Culture, Elections, Politics
Voter Participation Declining in Wisconsin
Culture, Police, Police brutality, Race
Over 45 Wisconsin communities protest against police brutality and racial inequality
Culture, Politics
So, why is Wisconsin so important?
BLM, Culture, Local Government, Police
Wisconsin’s small towns join call for racial justice
America, Culture, Polls
American pride falls to lowest level in Gallup history
Culture
Keep It Together
Culture, Politics, Wisconsin
New School: What’s Up in Wisconsin, 5.29.20
Coronavirus, Covidiots, Culture, Deplorables, Public Health
Face masks save lives. Red hats don’t.
Coronavirus, Covidiots, Culture, GOP
GOP wages war against face masks
Culture, Politics, Wisconsin
What’s Up in Wisconsin – 05.01.20
Culture, Politics
Angry White Men and Their Guns at Protests
Coronavirus, Culture, Police, Politics, Public Health
The Horde
Culture, Music, Politics
Music will get you through it
Bigotry, Conservatives, Coronavirus, Culture
Protesters in Brookfield Bring Stars & Bars to a ‘Rule of Law’ Demonstration
Why bring out a confederate flag? Brookfield WI protest against stay at home orders. It’s for the health and safety for our loved ones and community. This act is endangering all of our safety. pic.twitter.com/gn0mfiPTXe — Nick Truog ? (@LiberalStallion) April 18, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Public Health, Sen. Fitzgerald, Speaker Vos, WISGOP
WISGOP schemes to paint Gov. Evers as anti-religion
Coronavirus, Culture, Inspiration
Hold On
Culture, Spring
Now is the time to be joyful
Culture
Take off the mask, I can see you anyway
Culture, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Politics, WISGOP
WISGOP Denies Illiniois Marijuana Legalization Matters
Culture, Language
Basics
Dear Gen Xers and Millenials…
Well, first you’re going to have to apologize for misspelling “millennials.”
Via Althouse: I’m reading “I’m so, so, so sorry: A Baby Boomer apologizes on behalf of his generation.”
Culture, Language, Trump
Bad Thoughts, Bad Words, Bad Deeds
The ones who fawn over Trump need to be reflected upon. If the media didn’t bleep such profanity on television news they would get backlash from offended people. But those same people are not similarly offended that the profane utterances are from Trump himself! That is the type of people the rest of us need to contend with, and try to not laugh and gag over at the same time.
Via Donald Trump’s Profane Language Should Be National Topic @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS
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Agriculture, Business, Culture, Factory Farming
Family Farms v. Factory Farms
Interconnectedness of the family with the farm makes the farm a “family farm” and the family a “farm family.”
True family farms are and have always been a way of life, not just a massive business enterprise – CAFOs don’t cut it as family farms.
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Culture, Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016, Race
On racial tension, Walker sees ignorance as bliss
“In other words, acknowledging systemic problems like the documented wave of police killings of unarmed black men, or the racial wealth gap, or disparities in sentencing and incarceration, creates “discord.” During the GOP debate, he similarly dodged a question about the Black Lives Matter movement, which even Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly called “the biggest civil rights issue of our…
Culture, Travel
36 Hours in Provence
Via FREE WHITEWATER.
Culture, Madison
Pride Parade, Madison, WI
Culture, Economy, Education, Politics, UW Madison, Wisconsin
John Wiley laments what Wisconsin has become
“Wake up, Wisconsin! Recover your history and your legacy. Become, once again, the state others aspire to equal. Don’t keep aiming to be number fifty out of fifty for taxes, regulations, education, infrastructure and everything else that matters. Some of these are things that matter much more to all of us, no matter how we…
Culture, Social Media
Indeterminable
I don’t know how popular that “true gender mix” test is, but it can’t possibly give you an answer to that question. Quite aside from whether there is such a thing as your true gender mix, if you know it’s a true-gender-mix test, your answers will be tainted by whatever it is you want to be. And just from the fine print in that “70% Female” result, you can see that the test is designed to lure males into identifying as female. Female apparently means “kind and understanding.” If you strain to be seen as 100% male — if that’s what you want to be — you’re going to be told in the end that you’re a dick.
Culture, Gov. Walker, Immigration
Delavan
“Coming from the town of Plainfield, Iowa, with fewer than 500 people, Walker has said he saw Delavan as the “big city” when his family moved there in 1977…. The area’s Latino population has grow[n] exponentially since around that time. Only 7% in 1980, it climbed to 11% in 1990, then 21% in 2000 and…
Courts, Culture, Law, Liberty
6.26.15
I headed to the entry way of our home upon hearing the news this morning about the ruling from the Supreme Court about my right to marry the person I love. Days ago my partner James, who is the neighborhood vexillologist, pulled from his collection the colorful gay pride flag and had it neatly folded on a trunk, ready for the day the ruling would come down. I picked it up and walked briskly outside knowing that this ruling, will without a doubt, be the most profound action the court will ever have on my life….
Via Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Personal, Profound, Magnificent @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.
Culture, GOP, Gov. Walker, Law, Liberty, Presidential race 2016
Walker Upset with High Court
Gov. Scott Walker on Friday called the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage across the country “a grave mistake.”
Walker issued a lengthy statement on Facebook backing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow states to define marriage and calling the ruling “judicial activisim.”
Via Scott Walker: Supreme Court gay marriage ruling ‘a grave mistake’ @ Madison com.