Top Comments: Yanny vs. Laurel Edition
Time for some mindless Friday night funnies.It’s an internet thing — which do you hear: Yanny or Laurel. x YouTube VideoBut First, A Word From Our Sponsor:Top Comments recognizes the previous day's Top...
View ArticleTop Comments: Your Friday Laugh Edition
Seeing that nobody signed up tonight, I’ll present you with some cats to amuse you. Nothing ends the week like a good laugh. Enjoy while I finish up with the picture quilt which is giving me a hard...
View ArticleScott Walker is so Worried about the Blue Wave That He's Trying to Buy Votes
No joke:In a blatant ploy to buy votes for his re-election, Gov. Scott Walker signed a law in April that will give parents of young children $100 per-child cash rebate just in time to make them feel...
View ArticleTears of Joy. Remission Again
Today I had a follow up PET scan after 4 doses, 3 weeks apart, of Brentuximab, a monoclonal antibody given to me following a recurrence of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma about 6 months after the completion of 6...
View ArticleTop Comments: RIP Ed Schultz Edition
Yesterday was a bad day for progressives as we found out that broadcaster Ed Schultz died of natural causes at age 64.I celebrated yesterday as I discovered that my Hodgkins is, thankfully, once again...
View ArticleA Quick Update on my Remission - Not Quite There Yet
I wrote on Friday about a call from my oncologists’ office regarding a verbal report on my PET Scan taken earlier that day. I was told I’m in remission from Hodgkins Lymphoma. I was over the moon...
View ArticleTop Comments: Astronaut drops in from Intl Space Station for a Live Concert...
Time for some happy news after a bad, bad week of news from Trumplandia.Video posted Saturday by the European Space Agency shows German astronaut Alexander Gerst “dropping in” for a live performance...
View ArticleTop Comments: Panic in the White House Edition. (Reminds me of the stuff...
It looks like Pr*sident tRump is feeling a bit panicky lately. His weekend tweet-o-rama drama was joined today by this: x..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop...
View ArticleTop Comments: Open Thread Edition (for now)
Unless think of something clever to write, consider this an open thread. As of now (7 minutes to our publication time), I got nothing. Just came on and found the queue empty.A Word From Our Sponsor:Top...
View ArticleThe Poop is Hitting the Fan for Wi Republicans a Day Before the Primary Election
Donald tRump just dealt a blow to Wisconsin Republicans on the eve of the primary election.This is the 115th anniversary for Harley Davidson, a brand that began in a West Allis, Wisconsin garage....
View ArticleHere We Go Again: The Scott Walker Airplane Scandal That Wisconsinites Aren't...
All faithful Daily Kos readers already know that much of Wisconsin Governator Scott Walkers' electability comes from a carefully crafted and staged “I’m just a regular guy” strategy surrounded by...
View ArticleScott Walker Finally Getting a Taste of His Own Poisonous Medicine (and bonus...
It’s about time that Scott Walker gets a taste of his own scorched earth campaign tactics. Liberal groups are finally going on the attack just as Walker has repeatedly used his own RW dark money groups...
View ArticleTop Comments: Labor (Isn't Doing Too Well) Day Edition
Happy Labor Day, everyone!It should be a sad reminder to all of us about how much labor has lost in the last 40 years. The Big Bosses played the long game.In the heyday of unions, union jobs meant good...
View ArticleWi-01. OMG, Too Funny. Republican Running for Paul Ryans' Seat Gets Video...
One of the things that Republican candidates do during campaign season is to post B-Roll footage of themselves purportedly taking to voters, pointing at stuff, and just looking like they’re regular...
View ArticleWatch Scott Walker Lie His A$$ Off
Republicans in Wisconsin, who have pushed and voted to reinstate junk insurance, reject Medicaid expansion, and joined in a lawsuit to dismantle the Affordable Care Act are now all singing the same old...
View ArticleTop Comments: How Do You Plan to Cast Your Ballot Edition
It was 1956 and I was staying with my paternal grandparents for a few days. At age 5, I don’t remember much of that day except that just before grandpa came home from his factory job, grandma took a...
View ArticleOMG! Turnout is Massive and Republicans are Scared (It's Official Now)
(Update is below the fold)I just returned from voting. I normally vote around an hour or so later on Election Day so I can keep track of turnout. Last time, in 2016, I got a voter number in the low...
View ArticleScott Walker is Toast. Finally. (update) And now it's official!
You heard it here first!I just watched our live local reporter receiving the absentee ballot information from the City of Milwaukee to Milwaukee County. Of the over 44,000 ballots, Tony Evers received...
View ArticleThe Karma Truck Makes ANOTHER Delivery to Scott Walker. Update: Walker Concedes.
Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker (R-Koch Brothers) isn’t going quietly after his defeat last night. And soon, he’ll realize that he’s kicked his own ass with the recount legislation that was hastily rammed...
View ArticleTop Comments: Breathing a Sigh of Relief at the End of Scott Walker's...
I was up til the wee hours of election night (went to bed around 4:30AM). I watched Democrats take the House. Hazzah! Republicans kept the Senate for now, but they’re up against it in 2020 when they’ll...
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