Spiceblog accords N.Y. Times honorary Milwaukee blog status

Today’s entry on Spivak and Bice’s Spiceblog has only one link and it’s to a story in the New York Times.

Wasn’t their blog supposed to be about “local political blogs?”

Does the N.Y. Times count as a Milwaukee blog now?

Too bad there wasn’t a local blogger who wrote about the same story they linked to days ago.

Oh, best cialis clinic wait.

1 comment February 13th, 2006

Evacuee evictions?

Since when is not paying someone’s hotel bill considered an eviction?

3 comments February 13th, 2006

I wonder if Eugene Kane hurt himself with that straddle?

While it’s impressive to see a guy of a certain age manage to straddle both sides of the Corretta Scott King funeral offence, buy viagra store I have to admit I like it better when Eugene Kane is a little firmer with his crazy convictions.

With one side of his mouth, Eugene seems to be saying he could see why some people found Reverand Lowery’s and President Carter’s Bush bashing behavior boorish.

(After all, even some African-Americans “had concerns about some of the remarks.”)

Meanwhile, he’s using the other side of his mouth to blame President Bush.

His critics had to “act out” at a funeral, because it was the only time they could catch him “outside the protective bubble of subordinates and sycophants.”

I guess a strongly-worded letter was out of the question?

Anyway, after watching Eugene try to have his cake and eat it too throughout the entire column, it was nice to see him return to form with a beautifully made straw man.

Kane said:

The strong reaction from some readers and conservative commentators suggested an extreme breach of etiquette was on display, as if somehow criticizing the president of the United States was tantamount to treason during wartime.

I guess that’s one of the advantages of writing on paper instead of online.

In a blog, we’d expect the author to link to the posts comparing the liberal’s funeral tackiness to treason.

But guess what? I just searched Google, Technoratti and Icerocket and I couldn’t find any conservative bloggers who made that statement.

Now, I’m not calling Eugene a liar.

The web is a big place and I don’t know the content of his fan mail.

But I do think it’s sort of funny that the one place I DID find this comparison was on a liberal blog: Edendale.

Add comment February 12th, 2006

Jessica McBride hates fictional bloggers!

I was crushed that Jessica McBride named all the usual suspects in an article about Wisconsin bloggers in Saturday’s Waukesha Freeman, cialis clinic but somehow forgot to mention me.

Then I noticed she also hadn’t referenced Dennis York.

And I suddenly realized…Jessica doesn’t have anything against me in particular.

She just HATES fictional bloggers.

I feel so much better now.

Hat tip to Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative

12 comments February 11th, 2006

New York Times takes gratuitous swipe at gun owners.

According to today’s New York Times story on violent crime rising sharply in some cities (including Milwaukee):

A large part of the problem, sildenafil prostate the police say, buy viagra sick is simply more guns on the streets as gun laws have loosened around the country. In Philadelphia, cialis Commissioner Johnson said, since the state made it easier to get a gun permit in 1985, the number of people authorized to carry a gun in the city has risen from 700 to 32,000.

Oh my God, that’s so scary!

How many of the 380 murders committed in Philedelphia were committed by those 32,000 permit holders?

None?

That can’t be right. Are you sure?

None?

That’s right, as far as I can tell not a SINGLE murder was committed by a someone with a gun permit in Philidelphia, but the first thing the Commissioner thinks needs to be done is that the law abiding citizens should be disarmed.

Philidelphia Mayor John Street himself admited on CNN:

Well, we do believe that a moratorium on gun permits will be helpful. I want to point out that although people are not getting gun permits legally and going out and using them…

So if people aren’t getting gun permits legally and then using them for illegal purposes HOW WILL A MORATORIUM ON GUN PERMITS BE HELPFUL?

Of course, what a moratorium will do is make it HARDER for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves during a time of increasing violence.

It’s magical thinking. It’s illogical thinking. And it’s illegal thinking.

And, quiet honestly, it really pisses me off.

By the way, gun laws haven’t loosened in Milwaukee. Guess you’ll have to find a different explanation for us.

Of course, you could just start with my explanation.

(Although, to be fair, even the New York Times couldn’t help but notice that I’m 100% right about what most of the problem is caused by. They just couldn’t bring themselves to say it as honestly as I did.)

1 comment February 11th, 2006

The Journal Sentinel is on the warpath again.

Indian mascots are in the news and in the editorials again.

As usual, generic viagra cialis the Journal Sentinel is in favor of the complete removal of all Native American nicknames whether they are respectful (such as the Marquette Warriors) or less defensible (Wauwatosa East’s Red Raiders).

A couple of questions I’d like to ask:

1.) Why are Native Americans specially privileged? Where are the screams about the other ethnically-related teams like Fighing Irish, cialis generic thumb Vikings, Dutchman, Celtics, Highlanders, Gauchos, Scots, Spartans, Vandals, Trojans, and Ragin’ Cajuns?

2.) How long will it be before we move to remove the nicknames that really SHOULD piss Native Americans off like: Pilgrims, Pioneers, Conquerors, Cavalry, Cowboys, and Trailblazers?

3.) And then we’ll need to move on to banning:

Battling Bishops, Deacons, Preachers, Friars, Saints (offends athiests).

Demons, Devils, Blue Devils (offends fundamentalists).

Crusaders (offends Muslims).

Gamecocks (PETA’s already pissed about them).

Vixens (offends feminists).

Rebels (offends blacks).

Yankees (offends rednecks).

Patriots (offends Liberals).

Boilermakers and Shoremen (offends unions).

Bombers (clearly anti-arab).

Flying Queens (just imagine who that might offend).

And Senators (pretty much offensive to everyone).

Seriously, don’t we have more important shit to worry about?

And here’s my first chance to remind the Journal Sentinel of their own admission that there is “no constitutional guarantee against being offended.”

(Thanks guys, it took you long enough, but I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist the siren song of hypocrisy forever.)

5 comments February 11th, 2006