Over at folkbum's rambles 'n' rants , Jay and capper have been addressing this question of "civility" in the blogosphe...

One of the funniest guys on the Milwaukee internets is John McAdams , who is apparently a professor of political science at Marquette Univer...

For stuff like this: Sweetheart Like You

Recently, we endured the unseemly spectacle of a cadre of self-righteous conservatives, trolling the internets looking for ways to be relig...

I'm shocked and appalled at Marquette Law School Prof. Rick Esenberg's implication that judges, in their written opinions, should n...

It's hard to tell, according to news reports of the government raids on a Mormon splinter group in Texas at the "Yearning For Zion...

As promised — or, depending on one's perspective, threatened — the next entry in that which has now become what singer/songwriter Paul S...

Long ago in a land far away I worked for a few years in the power transformer division of Westinghouse, a U.S. company doing business in Can...

h/t Brazen Maverick for the newfangled gramophone.

Would you forsake your house and home, Would you forsake your baby? Would you forsake your husband too, To go with Blackjack Davey? Ride off...

Last night and this evening at Uihlein Hall, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra undertakes Igor Stravinsky's 1913 masterpiece, Le Sacre de...

The idea that composers would produce music expressly to irritate and annoy audiences is generally a 20th century one. Whether consisting of...

The first Futurist opera, Victory Over the Sun , was presented in St. Petersburg in October, 1913, with music by the Russian composer Mikhai...

I've been around the block more than a few times over a fairly long period of time and I've made more than my share of poor judgment...

I'm done with strict construction. When lawyers and judges and legal academics talk about strict construction, they're talking about...

Extremist left wing hate blogger outs self Please don't tell any of my pre-teen piano students, lest they get all a-skeered of my horrif...

And soon to be dramatically revealed as comedian and judge of top fashion models* Ben Stein . It's hard to tell whether the quoted desc...

I was on my way to Linens 'n Things this morning to pick up some doilies and a tea cosy when I ran into my good friend, the lovely and ...

JSOnline : Gableman, who was criticized widely for an ad attacking Butler's work as a public defender, said he was "very proud of ...

Where to vote. How to vote.

Continued from Part I ... Remember Jeffrey Dahmer, who committed some of the most deplorable acts that anyone is even capable of imagining?...

A conservative [Republican] group, Coalition for America's Families, ran its own spot criticizing Butler for writing an opinion overturn...

I'm doing my part. And I'm not talking about this here blog, which has been pretty much devoted since December to debunking as many...

Damn, I keep meaning to add this dude to the blogroll, but every time I think to do it, I can never come up with a shorter version of ...

Stacy Forster reports on CFAF's latest robocalls. Talk about desperate. I understand politics well enough and cheating and lying is pre...

The following is relatively brief, since there remain few points of disagreement between CFAF and Justice Butler's lists, yet the ones t...