Coming up this week in Madison
Current law requires the Governor to deliver the biennial budget message to the Legislature on or before the last Tuesday in January this year (extensions are permitted). The Governor must also...
View ArticleDays of unrest
The men and the women of the Madison Police Department train for crowd situations where an agitator or provocateur may try to create safety risks for citizens and officers. During recent...
View ArticleRepublican disinformation
Republican subversives, the same greedy corporate players that brought us the Citizens United decision and tipped the 2000 election in favor of that incredibly stupid and detached exemplar of vacuity,...
View ArticleEat the news, not too much
…most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don’t really concern our...
View ArticleWhat’s next
The State Capitol policeman who let me into the locked-down Wisconsin Department of Administration today was frank. “My union was eliminated today,” he said. “And it’s doubtful that there will be...
View ArticleUrge JoAnne Kloppenburg to request a manual recount
JoAnne Kloppenburg lost the election for Supreme Court Justice by over 7,000 votes, less than half a percent of the total votes cast. This entitles her to a machine recount on the State’s dime. A...
View ArticleFreedom to Connect
Registration for the 2013 Freedom to Connect gathering is open. Early bird pricing will be in effect for a few weeks. Register early and save several hundred bucks! http://freedom-to-connect.net/ #f2c...
View ArticleBangalore Workers Torpedoed?
India’s Infosys, a company that employs more than 150,000 techies, denies that they’re laying off 5,000 workers. At the same time, they suggest that under-performing workers are generally encouraged to...
View ArticleIf Aaron got hit by a truck
Here are Aaron Swartz’s instructions in case he was hit by a truck (dated 2002… hat tip to Sheila Lennon, Providence Journal) —–BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE—– Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) Comment: key at...
View ArticleThe Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
by Aaron Swartz [Was this what drove Carmen Ortiz nutz? -fp-] “Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural...
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