Apparently United Way chapters and others have been pulling funding in ever growing numbers, and perhaps that's finally having an impact.

Actually, I saw this news elsewhere and it prompted me to finally get around to updating my resume today, because I no longer had to wrestle with the question of leaving Eagle Scout on there or not.

This piece reminded me of 2 factoids I've always found interesting but cannot source-

Off topic, but isn't there something in there about displacing or deporting members of a group en masse?

The sad thing is I doubt he's aware enough to realize how short he comes in the comparison.

It does reveal how bipolar WI voting is. It is the state that gave us both Senators Joe McCarthy and Bob La Follette.

I was thrilled and surprised when Baldwin beat Thompson, so there was that.

As much as I think Johnson is a tool, I do think it is the job of the minority party to keep the party in power accountable and honest. Yeah, it's scoring points, but it serves a higher purpose.

Yeah I had an extra somber martini on State St. in Madison on that particular election night.

I had that reaction too.

Yeah, that was my experience. By the time I got to HS I was to the point where I could decide who and what was important for myself, and had very little drama. 3rd-6th grade was hell for me, mostly because that was where I had to develop the mechanisms to cope with my dyslexia and the teachers who thought I was a…

That shit gets everywhere.

That has not been my experience - as an uncut man who finds sex significantly more enjoyable without a condom, as does my wife.

Yeah, I agree - hence my mixed feelings.

Why on Earth would feminists laud anti-feminist choices? Of course she's allowed a personal evolution, but feminists are allowed to critique her - be that critique laudatory or condemnatory.

It's pretty firmly in the camp that feminism is about giving women choices, but not all women's choices are feminist.

Yeah, it is a thin x-ray beam that scans through your body, but a scan gives you as much radiation dose as 5 minutes at cruising altitude, so that doesn't disturb me nearly as much as the invasion of privacy aspects. Of course I have an MS in nuclear engineering, so it takes a fair amount of radiation to disturb me.

But a BB gun center of mass will put your eye out!

Do you believe the Church could have been more forthcoming in facing this issue?

See, the first could simply be considered covering their asses by assessing the scope of the problem, the second doesn't appear to be universally true (though perhaps more so recently, I couldn't speak to that), and to the third many would not characterize the Church's response as cooperative. It's got to be pretty…