Sorry, it’s been a long week. But I’m back now. Just finishing up a rework of the Wisconsin Chess Association website (the link is to the new, almost-ready-for-primetime version) while in the middle of my chess “busy season” (HS team organization, working one tournament while planning/organizing three more). The chess work will slow down in […]
How quickly they forget. The democrats now are sitting back and licking their wounds. They think they have done their best shot, and it wasn’t good enough. What next? And, since I think I’m a good representative of the voter they want to appeal to (and because I love to give advice) here’s why they […]
…as I waited into the night. 1) It didn’t take long for the Wisconsin voters to show they hadn’t been taken in by an empty suit. Feingold by a hefty margin. It could have been an interesting race had Feingold’s opponent had more than one firing synapse. It was like watching a badly written AI […]
Wisconsin’s a “battleground state” so everyone with a political axe to grind is swinging it my way. In the last 24 hours I’ve been called 15 times by political phone banks, from the Sierra Club to Right to Life. Along the way I’ve developed a few techniques for maintaining my sanity I’d like to share. […]
Over on Electrolite, there’s a storm of outrage a-brewing. I have to admit, opening the blog up and seeing the address of my old high school rival was a bit of a gigglesnort, but the misinformation that was abounding within it and the comment thread started out by offending me, then left me laughing helplessly. […]