tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61932443501774099302024-10-24T18:51:41.799-05:00"Mockery is the Sincerest Form of Ridicule"Christian Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265910969301697956noreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193244350177409930.post-70719271897760289812008-10-07T19:16:00.003-05:002008-10-08T00:10:43.343-05:00

As I've been connecting with more and more people from my past recently, I've found it frustrating that I have to direct them to about 5 different places if they want to read the stuff I've written. There's this blog, the old DY blog, my work blog, work columns, reports, TV appearances, etc. (Strangely, nobody ever asks me to be on their shows - I just show up.)So I have taken it upon myself to

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'Tis the season for mailboxes across America to be filling up with mail pieces from campaigns and interest groups. This one from the AFL-CIO looks like something you'd expect to get from them - a picture of a concerned looking union member and some predictable class envy whining about how rich Republicans hate working families.But one line in here absolutely astounded me:"McCain's practically had

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Now, I readily concede that I'm close to the upper age limit for Facebook. Anyone older than me, and it gets pretty creepy. But I have to say, Facebook is kind of freaking me out.You see, more and more of my classmates are coming online and adding me as a Facebook friend. And in a lot of cases, I have no recollection of who these people are. When I do remember them, there's generally a reason

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It was five years ago this week that my daughter was born. In the hospital, holding her for the first time, it was impossible to comprehend the fact that childbirth occurs all the time. It was such a wonderful, unique experience, I was convinced that the little girl in my arms was the first child ever born.I didn't really have the same experience until this afternoon, when the Brewers clinched

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Again, sorry for the lack of blogging - work has taken up my time, as we will have a big project going public tomorrow with which I will likely bug you then. I have also spent much of my day burning all my Clay Aiken t-shirts and CDs. I'm still numb from the shock.In the meantime, I wanted to relay this story:Yesterday, I found out that the wife of my best friend growing up (and namesake of the

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From a local company, no less.

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Well, that was a long way to drive to see the Packers immolate themselves.As I mentioned in my last post, my buddy Gooch came up with a ticket for me for tonight's big Packers-Cowboys game. And thus, it was required that I drop everything and make the trek up to Lambeau to watch this clash of previously undefeated teams. I even got myself a fancy new Greg Jennings jersey for the occasion - for

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As it turns out, I ended up with a ticket to tomorrow's big game against the Cowboys. If I know you, and you want to meet up somewhere before the game (I'll be there about 2 hours early), send me an e-mail.

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Sorry I haven't been able to post in a few days - after three straight weeks in a row on the road, I need to settle down and regain my bearings a little bit. I'm still a little disillusioned - I actually cried at the end of "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" tonight. Pretty much every day I've been gone, my kids have been sick, so it's been pretty tough - aside from the fact that

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I spent most of last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the State Policy Network annual meeting. (For those not "in the know," the State Policy Network is the national organization for state free-market think tanks.)I got into Scottsdale on Tuesday night, and I began to miss home within an hour of settling into my hotel room. It was especially hard, given the fact that I had spent the entire

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For years, people have been playing the "would you rather" game, where one is forced to choose between two roughly equally-unpleasant scenarios. (Would you rather eat a bowl of tomato soup strained through a vagrant's beard or eat a kidney bean-sized chunk of his ear wax?) The game is usually good for some laughs, but I'm about to ruin the fun by posing a question that will require hours of

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In the extremely unlikely event you didn't tune in to "UpFront with Mike Gousha" this weekend, I made an appearance to discuss the Republican National Convention. I was joined by Chris Miklos, who attended the Democratic Convention in Denver and also blogged about it for Wispolitics.com.You can watch the discussion that aired on the broadcast version of the show here.You can watch a web-only

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If you like having your political commentary delivered by a guy who is hung over, working on 3 hours of sleep, and who just drove 6 hours to get to the TV studio, you should tune in this weekend to "Up Front with Mike Gousha." I am on with Chris Miklos discussing the two political conventions.I got up early on Friday morning and made the drive from Minneapolis to Milwaukee to get to the studio

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Tonight, I returned from my 5-day trip up to Minneapolis for the Republican National Convention. After being gone so long, it was nice to see there wasn't some other guy living in my house that my kids called "daddy."However, I did have a choice to make - so think about what you would do in this situation:On Monday, I got to the hotel and started pulling clothes out of my bag to put them in my

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I've been up at the Republican National Convention since Monday, blogging for Wispolitics.com. A lot has happened in three days - including me being tear gassed, and a delegate explaining to me why the Easter Bunny is a liberal.You can read my entries here:Day One: Getting This Party StartedWho Will the Midgets Support?Day Two: What a GasDay Three: Hockey Mom Throws a Haymaker

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I just returned from my weekend trip to Ann Arbor, where I had a little mini-reunion with some of my college fraternity brothers at the Michigan-Utah football game. (Or, as it was known to my wife, the “Mid-Life Crisis World Tour.”) Five of us old guys who hadn’t seen each other in 12 years were ready to show Michigan how aging, bald frat guys do it up right.My gruff little Chicago buddy Hal

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I suppose that since I am now officially a pundit, I should weigh in on what is purported to be the most important night in politics since Joe Biden's name moved to the top of the hair donor list. In fact, Biden (who once described Obama as "clean" and "articulate") was probably surprised his running mate was able to deliver the speech without wearing gold teeth or taking a drink of Pimp Juice

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Political observers on both the left and right are slamming the uninspiring selection of Senator Joe Biden as Barack Obama's running mate. The left thinks Obama missed a chance to have a truly historic ticket by passing over Hillary Clinton, who could have been the first woman elected Vice President. The right simply recognizes Biden as a blowhard's blowhard, capable of fitting both feet in his

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As I'm sure you read in last week's Wispolitics Report, I have signed on to cover the GOP convention in the Twin Cities next week for Wispolitics.com. I'm a little nervous, as I have never been to a national convention, and I'm not exactly sure what goes on there. I imagine a full 60% of my posts will deal with funny hats. I'm also not sure I have a hotel room, so I'm thinking it might be a

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Next weekend, I'm heading to Ann Arbor to watch the mighty Michigan Wolverines suffer their first loss of the Rich Rodriguez era to one of my alma maters, Utah. (For those who keep track of these things, I have three former colleges - Virginia Tech, Utah, and Marquette.* There will be a quiz.)On this trip, I'm going to be meeting up with some of my fraternity brothers from college, most of whom

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Sorry things have been slow over here - I've been writing like a sweatshop blogger over at WPRI.

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In the year or so that it's been open, my wife and I have grown to be fans of the Roman Candle pizzeria in Middleton. A couple weeks ago, we got together with our neighbors and decided to order a pizza from there. I looked at the menu, and decided on a pizza they call the "Animal Lovers."As it turns out the "Animal Lovers" pizza is actually for vegetarians. It's "animal lovers" as in "I really

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Okay, so explain this:Just For Men hair coloring sauce, or however you'd describe it, is really pushing the fact that you only have to keep it in for 5 minutes. They actually have one commercial (that I can't find online, you'll just have to take my word for it) where a woman offers a guy her hair coloring product, but he eschews her proposition, complaining that it takes a whole 30 minutes for

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A few weeks ago, I started to wonder why we don't memorialize our government leaders with statues anymore. Thinking about that issue, coupled with the dedication of the Fonzie statue in Milwaukee, led me to write my current WPRI column, which is now up over at the mothership.

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When you have little kids, it's kind of hard to tell where exactly on the intelligence continuum your children are. I mean, I don't really hang out with a lot of three year olds (unless I'm buying them beer) so I'm not sure whether my son is smart compared to another three year old, or smart compared to cauliflower.But there's one thing that he does that just kills me, and has me completely

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