I need to post this somewhere, because I am just unbelievably angry and sad right now.

I currently live in Dodge County. Sucks for me, I know. However, I was hopeful that there might be an intelligent group of Democrats around here somewhere, so I started searching the Internet for something and found a website and a Facebook page, both run by the ( Read more... )

I should probably get around to actually writing about some of my thoughts on the protests here in Wisconsin...and now across the country. I've been posting a ton on Twitter and Facebook (perhaps much to the chagrin of some of my friends), but there's only so much one can say in those spaces, so I'm going to flesh out my thoughts a bit here ( Read more... )

So to follow up on my last post, Wisconsin is seriously an insane place to be right now. Our state Democrats fled to Illinois today in a showing of solidarity with those who are protesting Walker's proposal. This meant that the Republicans couldn't force the vote today, as they needed at least one Democrat present to be able to do so. For what ( Read more... )

In the past, I've been pretty uncaring about politics. I've said here before that I lean conservative, but I haven't always paid a great deal of attention to what's going on in government (yes, shame on me), and while certain things upset me, nothing really gets me riled up. But with all of the mofo-ery going on in the state government right now, I ( Read more... )