What do you mean, "Flash Gordon approaching"? Well, c'mon was that a great cinematic moment or what? Yet somehow it doesn't make Nehring the Edge's Fifty Movies You Gotta See Before You're Dead.
Hey, hey you! No smoking around here! At least not without a permit. Subject to Change thinks he may have found a motive for pushing a smoking ban, and it's not for public health.
Let's see, no Flash Gordon, no smoking, and Electric Commentary points out the state legislature wants the price of beer to go up. Well, at least they reached a compromise. Small brewers get screwed. Beer drinkers get screwed. The legislature gets to be annoying. And we can't even blame the Democrats for this one.Speaking of the Democrats, Leaning Blue captures a thousand words in a picture as she warns the Falk Lautenschlager fight "could get fugly." Does this make Jim Doyle Don King?
No Runny Eggs reports on the premature exchange of blows in that bout when AFSCME sent out a nasty letter. Isn't AFSCME where Wile E. Coyote buys all his gadgets and dynamite from?
Real Debate wonders just how dirty are elections going to get, but discovers he won't find the answer in his local newspaper, where the lead story complains about what's on television.
He thinks he has it bad, Patrick at Badger Blogger bought a newspaper and all it had on it was a bunch of asterisks. Just sailin' down the left branch of the main stream...
Back to politics, did you know there are primary elections on the Republican side? With all the talk of the Falk-Lautenschlager fight, the Walker-Green fight is getting overshadowed. Leave it Xoff to remind us with a phone transcript he got from his buddies at the CIA. Remember the good old days when liberals hated the CIA?
Well, in Madison, the good old days are always with us. A country unto themselves, Badger Blues tells us they're planning a referendum on the War in Iraq.
In Florence County, nearly every day is election day, and Folkbum reports that the fourth time is the charm. He also explains some of the underlying causes of the financial troubles up there.
Speaking of education, college life isn't all just drinkin' and partyin' and drinkin'. Sometimes, there's actually Bible studyin'. Just don't let it be done by a dormitory RA, or it will be just plain intimidatin'. The New Vernacular tries to find the middle way. Look, as long as there are freshman, there will be dorm RAs praying.
Conservative students who dare to wear their politics publicly know something about intimidation. Right off the Shore highlights a few of the recent abuses of campus conservatives.
It's times like these that a little return to nature can help. Unless you're a mink raised to be someone's coat, in which case the state of nature tends to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. But hey, as Letters in Bottles/The Island Pundit points out, the "mink liberators" have a few friends with signs. No word what the "liberated" minks thought when they starved to death.
If minks were born to live in nature, apparently people shouldn't live in nature. No, really. Random 10 reports on "conservation refugees", indigenous people driven from their homes ostensibly to protect fragile ecosystems.
Speaking of ecosystems...
