Klimt really was a cat lover. Descriptions of his studio include his numerous cats.

Those type of schools need to accept all students, including special needs kids. Too many of them refuse to take kids that are special needs, including ones that have autism, down’s syndrome, or a combination of issues.

Warren/Franken would be a lovely Democratic ticket for 2020.

I don’t have any kids, but I feel for anyone who is enrolled in a public school or a parent of a kid in American public schools.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov also fits in with those books. It’s a bit denser but its themes of truth in face of authority that denies it and freedom in an unfree world are just as relevant today as they were in Stalinist Russia. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak fits in as well because of its…

All of the Atwood inspired signs posted have been great.

I’ve worked retail and learned to become work friends with the people who worked at the makeup and cosmetic counters. One person who worked at the Lancome and Clinque counters got to be a good friend. She hit the right spot between being a good salesperson and good makeup artist. She turned me on to how amazing…

Dogs and cats are wonderful pets and companions in their own special ways. My mom’s family is mostly cat people, while my dad’s family is mostly dog people. My dad is the proud owner and servant of 1 dog, a very high maintenance Weimaraner, and 4 cats. He’s also the proud grandparent of two very spoilt felines, the…

With Walker, his destruction of Wisconsin’s state government is more than the GAB. I’m a state worker and have sincere concerns that his ending the civil service for most state positions is going to be very harmful in the long run. At the very least, more unqualified people will get hired for state jobs that don’t pay…

It really depends on who is involved in the process. The new districts could be as partisan, especially if GOP politicians are involved. It’s a glimmer of optimism that there are decent people that respect our governmental processes and traditions enough, even in the face of a party that wants to burn it all down.  

I have to disagree with the part that the Democrats abadoned Wisconsin. Wisconsin Democrats are an endangered species for two reasons - the Koch Bros, ALEC, and Reince Priebus using Wisconsin as a petri dish for their experimentation and too many “progressive” Democrats in this state placing a premium on ideological…

Here’s some better news that just broke - 3 Wisconsin judges ruled that the state has to redraw legislative districts before the 2018 midterms because the current boundaries are so gerrymandered to favor Republicans, thus unconstitutional. It’s truly a bipartisan panel - 2 were appointed by Republicans, Reagan and…

I do think that they are stragetically picking which ones of Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors that they want to fight and which ones get through. It’s more important to stop DeVos, Putzler, Price, Perry, and Sessions than it is Carson. Before DeVos ‘ hearings, I would have accepted letting her through in return for stopping…

I would be sad to live in a country without avocados. I would also miss California wine.

It’s not just right wing men. Even some center and left leaning men find it difficult to take care of themselves, especially when they have had their wives or mothers take care of them for most of their lives. After my mother’s visitation this past fall, some well meaning relatives asked if they could send some hot…

I can’t wait for the Right to Life march next Friday to claim that it got even half the attendees of the DC Women’s March. I also can’t wait for them to whine how the media was ignoring their protests, which have resulted in more restrictions on women’s reproductive choice in the country.

Some of them are the worst offenders when it comes to funding public education, preferring charter or voucher schools, homeschooling or religious schools until they have a special needs child that can’t or won’t be accommodated in those types of learning environments. Then they expect the public schools to spend 4 to…

I didn’t march today in Madison, WI because of a family obligation. I was very pleased to see the estimates from local news and the Madison police department of 75k to 100k people out marching today, the most since the Act 10 protests in 2011. Initial estimates were for maybe 10k to 15k people yesterday.

Reasoning like yours is why I voted against the local school district’s referendum in November. It sends the wrong message to Scott Walker and his minions if affluent districts vote to raise their taxes to make up for the loss in state funding. It doesn’t help the cause of the smaller districts which also have had to…

As someone who lives in Wisconsin, the sane and reasonable part of the state, not the KKK enclaves around Milwaukee, I feel the same way. My sarcastic solution to addressing Walker’s cut to the UW System in 2015 was to reduce the number of students enrolled living in districts represented by GOP lawmakers and increase…