Democratic visibility: a dairy breakfast in Wisconsin, with pictures
Democrats, get to those punkin doin's, those summer festivals, those parades. Go as Democrats. Don't let up. I have bragged up my local county party many times here at Daily Kos. We have a high...
View ArticleKossack on Wisconsin Public Radio today: health care reform
Daily Kos' own Fredb (a.k.a. Fred Bannister, M.D.) will be speaking on Wisconsin Public Radio's Ben Merens' show this afternoon from 5-6 p.m. Central. Those unable to hear it live on the air can hear...
View ArticleTales from the Wisconsin Dem Convention: Feingold, Doyle
All the cool kids may be hanging out at Yearly Kos, but a couple of them came to La Crosse, Wisconsin, for the DPW convention this evening, including Russ Feingold, who gave a speech that set the crowd...
View ArticleDear Senator Feingold--why the copout?
This open letter to Senator Russell Feingold comes from Kossack fredb, author of Health Security America and director of the Coalition for a Health-Secure America. The letter stems from the...
View ArticleWisc. GOP State Senator in big trouble
I've written before about the Wisconsin State Senate 23rd District race. The seat is occupied by an 18-year Harley-riding incumbent who may well be the archetype for everyone's arch-conservative...
View ArticleDoyle, Kohl and Falk draw big northern Wisconsin crowd
RICE LAKE October 21, 2006--Despite the damp chill, over 500 people turned out to greet Governor Jim Doyle, Senator Herb Kohl, Attorney General candidate Kathleen Falk, and many other candidates at the...
View ArticleUpdate: Wisconsin Elections open thread
This is just an opportunity for Wisconsinites to talk about today's elections. Will Linda Clifford wipe out WMC tool Annette Ziegler?With 28% reporting, the gulf is narrowing:Supreme Court Wisconsin...
View ArticleImpeachment not so Smart?
First of all, I don't care if we impeach the bastard 5 minutes before noon on 1-20-09, I think it is imperative. If we don't impeach now, let's get rid of impeachment.But I awoke to find this in my...
View ArticleTales from the Wisconsin Democratic Convention
From the fourteenth floor of the Milwaukee Hilton, I bring you a few of the highlights of tonight's speakers, including Russ Feingold, Tammy Baldwin, Governor Doyle, and a Daily Kos poster from this...
View ArticleAl Gore told me to Step it up Again
Yup, I got an e-mail from Al Gore:The power of a single individual to create change has always inspired me. Earlier this year, my friend Bill McKibben decided he was going to establish a day of action...
View ArticleEau Claire, WI: Obama, talk of the town (updated)
EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, February 16, 2008--Barack Obama made a campaign stop in Sawdust City this morning. He filled the arena of my alma mater, UW-Eau Claire, with over 3 thousand people. Several...
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Wooed Wisconsin super delegate makes his decision (updated)
Remember Jason Rae? He's the youngest DNC member, or one of them, I believe. His home base is my county party. I had just joined my local party during the '04 general election when he ran a...
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Olbermann's show inspired my little boy
Friday's Countdown, with its puppet show rendition of last week's Obama-Clinton meeting, inspired my child to make his own Obama and Clinton puppets and stage his own summit.No, this isn't much of a...
View ArticleWhy I'm donating to Obama again (update)
Last night, doing fair duty for the local Dems in northwestern Wisconsin, I met the local Obama field officer, Kevin, from the San Antonio, Texas, area. Friendly, enterprising, looking for people to...
View ArticleFugue state--but before I go
How about a round of haiku expressing our multilayered disdain for our horndog du jour, for the people complicit with him, for naked ambition, for the state of our culture that enables this orgy of...
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"You're Freaks": rally day at the fairgrounds
RICE LAKE, WISCONSIN--September 6, 2008. Every couple of years my local party roasts a pig or two, invites some speakers, and throws a party to elect Democrats. We always have a terrific turnout, take...
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"They play dirty. I'm sick of it!"
That's my dad with his '49 Chevy DeLuxe. He comes from a family of rock-ribbed Republicans and found his way to the Democrats because of his union. He's been a successful small businessman and...
View ArticleWorld to Obama on global warming: don't blow it
This is a short one, with apologies if it has been done already. Bill McKibben and 350.org exhort us to invite Obama to go to the Poland climate summit and start leading.First sign to watch for: Does...
View ArticleFor those in WI-7 who want a public option: call Dave Obey
To those interested in keeping the public option in the health care plan:The heart of President Obama's health-care reform plan—the public health insurance option—is under attack. And your...
View ArticleMy energy cooperative sucks, and here's why
It's not the crappy keychains and plastic coffee cups they give away at their annual meeting. Not really. It's the slick, glossy check-box forms they sent my husband and me to urge senators Feingold...
View ArticleHealing wounds
You've probably had this maudlin e-mail forwarded to you sometime in the past decade. "To be a mother is like having a wound that never heals," it goes. Maudlin, yes, but there's some truth, there. I...
View ArticleWhere my work for the Democratic Party has landed me: a rant
I began posting here a little bit before the 2004 election, then, inspired and angered by Bush's re-election, I leapt with both feet into local party politics.In 2005, I teamed up with a health care...
View ArticleKosAbility:ADHD in a woman--it ain't pretty
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects up to 10% of people. Even a mild case can take its toll on function in daily life, and, among women, who are affected as often as men, it takes a...
View ArticleWisconsin protest, Tuesday, Capitol
Governor Scott Walker is an autocrat who is paying back his contributors handsomely, scuttling high-speed rail jobs, wind power feasibility with NIMBY regulations, and now vows to roll back decades of...
View ArticleWhat Republicans used to stand for
Note: My great-grandfather, who was instrumental in founding Luther Hospital, made this speech (excerpted below) on Sept. 9, 1915 in Eau Claire, about health care issues of the day. He was a ”habitual...
View ArticleAdventures in solar cooking: detritus from the drafts folder
Note: found this in my drafts folder, from 2009 Ever since going to the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair last year and seeing rows of solar ovens baking fragrant loaves of bread, I have wanted to own one...
View ArticleADHD: getting in touch with my inner executive
I recently wrote a KosAbility diary about my experience with ADHD, explaining my background as a woman afflicted with ADHD, and sketching a plan to perhaps try stimulant medication, which basically...
View ArticleUterine anomalies: causes, types, and why they matter
Congenital malformations of the uterus are not rare; they affect as much as 7% of women. When I was studying to be a nurse, I wanted to know more about the causes, effects, and nursing...
View ArticleCo-sleeping and risk of SIDS
A "dirty little secret" among new parents is that more of them than one might think choose to "co-sleep," which is loosely defined as sleeping with one's infant very near by—even in the same bed.As a...
View ArticleWhen is toast not toast? When it's spread with maverickitude
So, the Wisconsin GOP state senators, minus Schultz, pulled it off. They've removed public sector collective bargaining from the first state to ever adopt it. People are asking, "Has Walker gone off...
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Breasts: a brief history
Breasts. It's impossible to be neutral about them. Are they decorative? Functional? Recreational? Obscene? Totems of momism? Natural? Too big? Too small? Too saggy? Too artificial? They might be one of...
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Is that outrage, or Graves' Disease?
You're flushed, sweaty, shaky, and jump at the sound of a falling chad. Eyes red and bulging, you yell at Glen Beck on the flat screen. And those nihilistic Republican governors raise your blood...
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A golden fork lying in the sun
I was well into my thirties before I figured out that most people did not see a color associated with every letter and number, did not see shapes associated with sounds, and didn't view a year as a big...
View ArticleVideo: The Struggle in Wisconsin
A well done video that explains clearly why you, as a person in the United States who happens to drink water, should be concerned about the Wisconsin rebellion.Credit: TheBadgerMom
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Living the life of Duffy
Despite GOP efforts to scrub Congressman Sean Duffy's gaffe about struggling on his taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000, that particular turd will not hold a polish.The freshman congressman from...
View ArticleGlenn Beck leaving FOX; cites white lung disease from chalk dust
Okay, so it's not the chalk. But Beck has been more whiny, tearful and vague these days than a whole stack of Air Supply albums. Here's the link:Beck has drawn unprecedented ratings and attention to...
View ArticleOh say can you see by the Bomb's early light?
Updated for Fathers' Day, 2012. Thanks, Dad. Glad you're still hale, 57 years after they did this to you.Imagine starting your day out in the desert in a personnel carrier, getting atom-bombed in the...
View ArticleDave Obey's REAL successor: Pat Kreitlow considers challenging Sean Duffy
I'm so excited this morning I forgot to finish my coffee! Apparently former State Senator Pat Kreitlow is sending up some of those trial balloons for a 2012 attempt to unseat MTV wunderkind Sean Duffy....
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Badger State Progressive digest, No. 1
Man, the potentates in Wisconsin pull shit faster than pickpockets. How to keep a bead on the hydra that is Wisconsin? Here's a list of some of the Wisconsin-related diaries so far this week.Badger...
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The endless knot: eating disorders, part I
I told my mom I was going on a diet when I was ten. Not that I was fat, but I wasn't slender, quite. "You could be so skinny," my mom told me.I once forgot to eat for almost two weeks, subsisting only...
View Article"Fight Not Over" Rally in Madison, May 14, 2011
Around 10 to 14 thousand people showed up at the Wisconsin capitol yesterday to remind legislators that the fight is not over. Video from WISN here.And more:And more about the rally, including photos,...
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A big vowel movement
Just when we think we have language clipped, freeze-dried and shrink-wrapped, it starts to bubble and heave again, like a Horta. We keep saying this or that thing—Leave it to Beaver, Walter Cronkite,...
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On a Ruta 46 bus
"You've probably heard that Mexican border towns are evil," my Spanish teacher husband wrote to parents of kids traveling to Mexico with him, "And what you've heard is true. Our first stop will be...
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Crowd-sourced Cash
Frame 906 from the video to "Ain't No Grave," by Johnny Cash I have a long commute and spend some of my time listening to podcasts, including TED Talks. At times I get a little exasperated with the gee...
View ArticleLiveblogging Bob Fest: "He has such a high regard for the truth, he uses it...
That was Ed Garvey on Scott Walker. Ed Garvey ran for governor and senator back in the day and, for the past 10 years, he's been organizing Fighting Bob Fest, a progressive chatauqua. He's always...
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Michele Bachmann Chair of Astrology
This is actually a chair of astronomy that she has endowed, but the papers were in place before someone could clarify the name of the discipline for her. Bachmann was quoted in the St. Cloud paper...
View ArticleObey for Governor of Wisconsin?
Hat tip to Sunspots for thinking about this 7 months ago. Talking Points Memo mentioned this a few days ago, stating that retired WI-07 congressman and former House Appropriations Committee Chair Dave...
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Repost: Northern Wisconsin man brings petition, and runs for office
Walker a package of signed petitions to keep Badgercare as it is, in the face of some pretty severe cuts.That's my friend, John with the beribboned bundle. He himself has been over a barrel obtaining...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin pepenadores
I first heard about pepenadores a quarter century ago, around the time Mexico City had its big earthquake.http://es.wiktionary.org/...Personas que trabajan clasificando y separando la basura para...
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Repost: Northern Wisconsin man brings petition to Madison
Barron County resident and politician John Hardin brings Scott Walker a package of signed petitions to keep Badgercare as it is, in the face of some pretty severe cuts.That's my friend, John with the...
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