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The “Ancient Mating Habits of Whatever”

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Shorter Robin Vos to state-based scholars: It’s all about the Benjamins:   The Republican agenda for next year also includes several changes for the University of Wisconsin, according to Vos. He said that he wants to ensure that faculty spend more time teaching, and that research is geared toward helping the state’s economy. “Of course I want research, but I want to have research done in a way that focuses on growing our economy, not on ancient mating habits of whatever,” said Vos. “So we want to try to have priorities that are focused on growing our economy.”   In outlining … Continue reading The “Ancient Mating Habits of Whatever”

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Scott Walker’s new jobs plan: Buy more ad time

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(Sorry I was late on this. Flight didn’t get back until late yesterday and I owed my lovely wife an actual dinner with drinks. — Doc) Apparently his good deeds and great movement of Wisconsin in a positive direction has led him to an insurmountable lead in the polling of… uh… Wait… We’re fucking tied? Walker’s answer to everything has always been, when he’s in trouble, throw cash and obfuscation at it. According to a Washington Post article today, he has moved into the Oliver Twist realm in dealing with the Republican Governors Association By asking “Please, sir, more…” Despite … Continue reading Scott Walker’s new jobs plan: Buy more ad time

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You’re Paying Either Way

Allison Hantschel

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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You’re Paying Either Way

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The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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You’re Paying Either Way

Allison Hantschel

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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You’re Paying Either Way

Allison Hantschel

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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You’re Paying Either Way

Allison Hantschel

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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You’re Paying Either Way

Allison Hantschel

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

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People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Allison Hantschel

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

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People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Allison Hantschel

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

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People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Allison Hantschel

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

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People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Allison Hantschel

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

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People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Allison Hantschel

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

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People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

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Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Hey, where did I put my jobs plan? Oh, here it is under all these racist jokes and emails bitching about cats… I n April 2010, Michael Best & Friedrich paralegal Kelly Teelin sent Rindfleisch a joke about someone whose dogs supposedly qualified for welfare because they are “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddys are.” Rindfleisch wrote back: “That is hilarious. And so true.” In another email, sent in July 2010, Thomas Nardelli, chief of staff for Walker at Milwaukee County, forwarded Rindfleisch and undisclosed others a joke about someone … Continue reading Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Hey, where did I put my jobs plan? Oh, here it is under all these racist jokes and emails bitching about cats… I n April 2010, Michael Best & Friedrich paralegal Kelly Teelin sent Rindfleisch a joke about someone whose dogs supposedly qualified for welfare because they are “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddys are.” Rindfleisch wrote back: “That is hilarious. And so true.” In another email, sent in July 2010, Thomas Nardelli, chief of staff for Walker at Milwaukee County, forwarded Rindfleisch and undisclosed others a joke about someone … Continue reading Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Hey, where did I put my jobs plan? Oh, here it is under all these racist jokes and emails bitching about cats… In April 2010, Michael Best & Friedrich paralegal Kelly Teelin sent Rindfleisch a joke about someone whose dogs supposedly qualified for welfare because they are “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddys are.” Rindfleisch wrote back: “That is hilarious. And so true.” In another email, sent in July 2010, Thomas Nardelli, chief of staff for Walker at Milwaukee County, forwarded Rindfleisch and undisclosed others a joke about someone who … Continue reading Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Hey, where did I put my jobs plan? Oh, here it is under all these racist jokes and emails bitching about cats… I n April 2010, Michael Best & Friedrich paralegal Kelly Teelin sent Rindfleisch a joke about someone whose dogs supposedly qualified for welfare because they are “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddys are.” Rindfleisch wrote back: “That is hilarious. And so true.” In another email, sent in July 2010, Thomas Nardelli, chief of staff for Walker at Milwaukee County, forwarded Rindfleisch and undisclosed others a joke about someone … Continue reading Schaden-Friday: Scott Walker Style

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Whoops goes the Walker

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One of the biggest complaints my mother has these days about her eighth-graders is that they don’t know how to look stuff up. “They put two words into Google and figure if it doesn’t tell them something, the thing can’t exist,” she groused last weekend when we were trading “top this” teaching stories. I’m wondering how many of her kids are working for Scott Walker… Gov. Dead Eyes got in trouble (again) for failing to properly vet someone (again) before making a big public display (again). In his State of the State speech, Walker lauded Christopher Barber as an example … Continue reading Whoops goes the Walker

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Whoops goes the Walker

Allison Hantschel

One of the biggest complaints my mother has these days about her eighth-graders is that they don’t know how to look stuff up. “They put two words into Google and figure if it doesn’t tell them something, the thing can’t exist,” she groused last weekend when we were trading “top this” teaching stories. I’m wondering how many of her kids are working for Scott Walker… Gov. Dead Eyes got in trouble (again) for failing to properly vet someone (again) before making a big public display (again). In his State of the State speech, Walker lauded Christopher Barber as an example … Continue reading Whoops goes the Walker

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Whoops goes the Walker

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One of the biggest complaints my mother has these days about her eighth-graders is that they don’t know how to look stuff up. “They put two words into Google and figure if it doesn’t tell them something, the thing can’t exist,” she groused last weekend when we were trading “top this” teaching stories. I’m wondering how many of her kids are working for Scott Walker… Gov. Dead Eyes got in trouble (again) for failing to properly vet someone (again) before making a big public display (again). In his State of the State speech, Walker lauded Christopher Barber as an example … Continue reading Whoops goes the Walker

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Whoops goes the Walker

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One of the biggest complaints my mother has these days about her eighth-graders is that they don’t know how to look stuff up. “They put two words into Google and figure if it doesn’t tell them something, the thing can’t exist,” she groused last weekend when we were trading “top this” teaching stories. I’m wondering how many of her kids are working for Scott Walker… Gov. Dead Eyes got in trouble (again) for failing to properly vet someone (again) before making a big public display (again). In his State of the State speech, Walker lauded Christopher Barber as an example … Continue reading Whoops goes the Walker

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Whoops goes the Walker

One of the biggest complaints my mother has these days about her eighth-graders is that they don’t know how to look stuff up. “They put two words into Google and figure if it doesn’t tell them something, the thing can’t exist,” she groused last weekend when we were trading “top this” teaching stories. I’m wondering how many of her kids are working for Scott Walker… Gov. Dead Eyes got in trouble (again) for failing to properly vet someone (again) before making a big public display (again). In his State of the State speech, Walker lauded Christopher Barber as an example … Continue reading Whoops goes the Walker

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Being a Teawad Show-Off Hurts People

Allison Hantschel

Scott Walker’s burnishing his “conservative” street cred on the backs of these people: Sam was a volunteer first responder. I had just been rescued from a 30 vehicle pile-up near Sam’s home. Farming was Sam’s main occupation; being a volunteer first responder didn’t help get Sam health insurance. Like so many farmers, Sam depended on help from the state to get health insurance. That help was going away. A few days earlier I met Mary. She was hoping for help from the state to get health insurance. She’d traveled in zero-degree weather across two counties to find me. She relied … Continue reading Being a Teawad Show-Off Hurts People

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Being a Teawad Show-Off Hurts People

Scott Walker’s burnishing his “conservative” street cred on the backs of these people: Sam was a volunteer first responder. I had just been rescued from a 30 vehicle pile-up near Sam’s home. Farming was Sam’s main occupation; being a volunteer first responder didn’t help get Sam health insurance. Like so many farmers, Sam depended on help from the state to get health insurance. That help was going away. A few days earlier I met Mary. She was hoping for help from the state to get health insurance. She’d traveled in zero-degree weather across two counties to find me. She relied … Continue reading Being a Teawad Show-Off Hurts People

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Just because you can, it doesn’t follow you should

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On a day off this week, the family and I took a drive south from Washington, D.C. to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s restored plantation. The Missus had been desperate to see his gardens and I figured I’d have a chance to do some antiquing in another state. One of the three guided tours was a look at slavery on the plantation. I’m not opposed to tours of things that showcase some of the uglier moments in history. Mom was fortunate enough to be included in one of the first tours of the Holocaust Museum and she has also been to several … Continue reading Just because you can, it doesn’t follow you should

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John Doe 2: The Walkening

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Hat tip to Jude for the heads-up: Eric O’Keefe, the director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, told the nation’s most widely known conservative editorial page he received a subpoena in early October. O’Keefe said at least three targets had their homes raided, according to the newspaper on Friday. The opinion piece said about 30 groups had received subpoenas, including heavy hitters nationally. It named eight of them: Walker’s campaign; the Wisconsin Club for Growth; American Crossroads, a group co-founded by Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush; the Republican Governors Association; the Republican Party of Wisconsin; … Continue reading John Doe 2: The Walkening

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John Doe 2: The Walkening

Hat tip to Jude for the heads-up: Eric O’Keefe, the director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, told the nation’s most widely known conservative editorial page he received a subpoena in early October. O’Keefe said at least three targets had their homes raided, according to the newspaper on Friday. The opinion piece said about 30 groups had received subpoenas, including heavy hitters nationally. It named eight of them: Walker’s campaign; the Wisconsin Club for Growth; American Crossroads, a group co-founded by Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush; the Republican Governors Association; the Republican Party of Wisconsin; … Continue reading John Doe 2: The Walkening

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Scott Walker is Werner Heisenberg in “The Jobs Effect.”

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It’s always someone or something else’s fault… Scott Walker never graduated from college, or probably passed a course where the Uncertainty Principle was discussed. That said, he has no problem whatsoever blaming everyone else for the uncertainty that led to the shitty job numbers his state seems to be pumping out at a record pace: “There’s no doubt in our first two years, because of the protests, the recalls, that they had an impact early on. Much as there is concern nationally about the impact of Obamacare and the impact it has on employers, they just wonder with uncertainty.” Right. … Continue reading Scott Walker is Werner Heisenberg in “The Jobs Effect.”