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The Short Menu: November 2011
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011. I've Done My Marching. Tonight, I'm in New York. And Oakland. And Seattle. And Melbourne. I'm just about everywhere but Madison, at the moment. Today, the recall effort against Scott Walker started, and the state is buzzing with the effort of logging 540,000 signatures to trigger an election that could result in throwing him out of office. And I'm not involved in any significant way with this, either. Put me in coach, I want to play.). How do I know this? Because then your con...
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The Short Menu: Dear Governor Walker: It's A Boy!
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Friday, May 4, 2012. Dear Governor Walker: It's A Boy! Dear Governor Walker,. I just thought I'd send you a quick update to the testimony I gave to the Joint Finance Committee at about 1:30am on February 15, 2011. You probably missed it, and - frankly - I'm glad you did. As a public speaker, I wasn't really at my very best that night. Part of the problem was that I was really angry that you decided to "drop a bomb" on Wisconsin. Then the hearing room doors were shut in our faces. And that was what I was ...
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The Short Menu: January 2010
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Monday, January 4, 2010. Have you been listening to the Dude's story, Donny? Okay, another question:. What about fast food? I travel for work, and road time is a necessity. Taco Bell and Subway are staples of long drives, I have to admit. But, convenient food seems counter to the whole notion of living life from the Short Menu. Sunday, January 3, 2010. This isn't 'Nam. There are rules.". I really don't know what I'm doing. So here's what I've been thinking:. 1) Can I eat the kids' leftovers? I'm thinking...
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The Short Menu: June 2012
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Friday, June 8, 2012. I’ve always been a person who doesn’t like to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.” Bob Dylan, “Brownsville Girl.”. For those of us who tell stories, there are just too many metaphors about what has happened here, and Dylan’s line is about as good as it gets. Everything in Wisconsin shifted unexpectedly when Walker was elected, and many are left standing in both the same place and in unexpected territory now that he has been re-elected, again. As an athlete, ...
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The Short Menu: April 2012
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Friday, April 20, 2012. I think I wrecked a really good joke. (Yes, sometimes I'm. Guy at the party.). What did I do? I made a few serious comments about a picture that is making the rounds on Facebook, just at the moment that everybody was laughing about it most. The picture? It's a nice shot of a yard sign from the Republican Party of Outagamie County that says: "We Support. I laughed out loud, and went to re-post it myself. But then I didn't because I had a thought, instead. The people in the grammar-...
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The Short Menu: Chat Pack
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Thursday, February 23, 2012. My second daughter likes to play a game called "Chat Pack" at the dinner table. So - often - we do. The game is pretty simple: There are a couple hundred cards in a box with questions printed on them, and we take turns choosing questions, which we then all take turns answering. For example, tonight the first question was: "Of all of the characters in all of the movies you have ever seen, which one is most like you? My education is in language, and more particularly how langua...
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The Short Menu: My Comments on Wisconsin AB 426, 2/17/2012
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Friday, February 17, 2012. My Comments on Wisconsin AB 426, 2/17/2012. I went to the Wisconsin Capitol early this morning to try to participate in the hearing for Wisconsin AB 426. Which was written to streamline the mining permitting process here in the State. The bill was written expressly to support Gogebic Taconite,. A Florida mining company that wants to dig a 1200' deep, mile wide, and four mile long strip-mine in the heart of the Penokee Hills in Northern Wisconsin. I waited six hours to testify, ...
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The Short Menu: Here's The Deal
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Friday, April 13, 2012. Conversation at dinner the other night took an unexpected turn, when my second daughter said to my son: "I just don't want to see you hurt and bleeding, with skinned knees and black eyes. That's just too much for me to think about so please don't do that again, okay? Were you scared of the bullies, boy? Something inside of me tightened. I've been that little boy. In some ways, I still am. We've been fighting for a long time. This country has literally been at war for over ten ...
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The Short Menu: June 2011
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Happiness Is A Warm Gun. Bang-Bang, Shoot-Shoot.". So the Wisconsin Legislature just passed Concealed Carry, and Inner Wyoming can hardly contain himself. This is. I should tell you something about Inner Wyoming: For Christmas one year he got a new shotgun, and he was so excited he took it to his high school. When he told Father LaCasse that he got a new shotgun for Christmas, the good father said: "Man, let me see it! I got a new shotgun for Christmas! What I realized then - that...
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The Short Menu: Spellcheck
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Friday, April 20, 2012. I think I wrecked a really good joke. (Yes, sometimes I'm. Guy at the party.). What did I do? I made a few serious comments about a picture that is making the rounds on Facebook, just at the moment that everybody was laughing about it most. The picture? It's a nice shot of a yard sign from the Republican Party of Outagamie County that says: "We Support. I laughed out loud, and went to re-post it myself. But then I didn't because I had a thought, instead. The people in the grammar-...
