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How UW can go all D2P with QE1 and CO2

By John Frederick Kaufman Rumor has it that the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to fill three high […]

January 21, 2014 Anti-Tech, Uncategorized

MLK Jr.’s Anti-War Challenge

Martin Luther King, Jr. is rightly celebrated for his preaching of racial equality, civil rights and nonviolent methods of […]

January 20, 2014 Uncategorized

Farm Subsidies & Food Stamps: Stuffing the rich, starving the poor

(CAFO hogs by USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) If you operate a wealthy “mega farm” in Wisconsin or […]

January 16, 2014 Economy, Uncategorized

Bridgegate and the WI “John Doe”: Jumping to Conclusions

Are we innocent until proven guilty? In court, yes.  In the media and court of public opinion– not so much. […]

January 14, 2014 Uncategorized

The ongoing irony of Wisconsin’s open-pit iron mine law

Speaking of iron mines and irony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board today published an editorial claiming, yet again, […]

January 10, 2014 Uncategorized

Collins & Brooks together again

The published conversations between NY Times columnists Gail Collins and David Brooks are always witty and enlightening, thanks […]

January 6, 2014 Uncategorized

Saturday rebuttal: My one & only prediction for 2014

(An ongoing Afternoon Journal series of weekly “rebuttals” or direct responses to public utterances by pundits and politicians) […]

January 4, 2014 Uncategorized

Creating local peace economies

(Photo by Samweller2 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons) How can states like Wisconsin that […]

January 3, 2014 Uncategorized

Skating into the new year

I took my daughter ice skating for the first time on the last day of 2013. I had […]

January 1, 2014 Uncategorized

CAFOs: A farm is not a factory

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Much shocked outrage was voiced in Wisconsin after a recent undercover video taken at a dairy factory farm by the […]

December 29, 2013 Economy, Nature, Uncategorized

“Peace on earth and mercy mild”

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all from The Afternoon Journal.

December 25, 2013 Uncategorized

Friday Rebuttal: Sen. Ron Johnson says U.S. can’t afford sympathy for the unemployed

Here’s Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson talking on Wisconsin Public Radio about why he won’t vote to extend unemployment […]

December 20, 2013 Uncategorized

Milwaukee County should join 140 other enlightened communities and pay a living wage

Milwaukee County supervisors, led by David Bowen, have put forth a “living wage” ordinance for county workers and the […]

December 18, 2013 Uncategorized

Wisconsin defends its harmful addiction to coal energy

Wisconsin is “on track to reduce the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide  by 22%” from the 2005 level by the […]

December 16, 2013 Uncategorized

Speaker Boehner ends the “Tea Party”

House Speaker John Boehner finally spoke aloud what we progressives and most of the rest of the nation have been […]

December 12, 2013 Uncategorized

A Cheesehead President? New poll says not likely

According to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll, former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is twice as […]

December 11, 2013 Uncategorized

A Man’s Right to Stay Home

In the latest issue of Harper’s Magazine, I came across an astounding statistic: only 8% of Americans believe that […]

November 20, 2013 Uncategorized

Hunting with artillery shells at Fort McCoy

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Associated Press report that those interested in doing some hunting at the Fort McCoy Army […]

October 28, 2013 Uncategorized

The Rise of Thoughtlessness

I’ll start with a few lines from a poem by Wendell Berry, one of the nation’s best authors […]

October 8, 2013 Uncategorized

The New Wisconsin Idea: Heal Thyself

When asked what the federal government should do to resolve the current government shutdown, Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker […]

October 5, 2013 Uncategorized

Wisconsin would do well to heed Wendell Berry

As Wisconsin prepares for the possibility of witnessing the desecration of the Penokee Hills and Bad River watershed, thanks […]

October 5, 2013 Uncategorized

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