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Smells Like Teen Spirit

Yesterday, I mocked the concert lineup at the Resch Center in Green Bay that featured ’80’s Hair Metal acts Def Leppard, Poison and Tesla.  I used the term “MulletFest” to describe not only the music–but the fans that would be in attendance.  Sadly, there were pictures on my Facebook feed posted by friends that may…READ MORE

Chicken City

Round Three of the Great Appleton Chicken Fight is on tap tonight.  The City Council will vote for a third time on allowing people to raise a select number of hens in their backyards.  It’s the latest in a trend that is seeing the city look more like “the country”–while the “the country” is made to…READ MORE

Just Keep Hammering Us

No generation of Americans has had a more detrimental impact on our nation as the Baby Boomers.  They are the reason school districts like Oshkosh have too many school buildings–with so many being built to handle their burgeoning numbers in the 50’s and ’60’s.  They started American families on the path to so much student debt…READ MORE

My biggest pet peeve is being late.  I hate when something happens that makes me late for something.  I hate when other people show up late for appointments or events.  And I really detest people who don’t care that they are late–as to me, it is the ultimate show of disrespect.  Obviously, they think your…READ MORE

The Next Lambeau Experience

If increasing ticket prices every year, raising parking rates, inflated concession prices, a share of the largest TV rights package on the planet, licensing of the name and logo, renting property to brewpubs, upscale hotels and sporting goods stores, and operating the most-successful team owned pro shop in the league isn’t enough to “keep the…READ MORE

Show Me a Sign

For those of you who are fans of the diamond sports–baseball and softball–I hate to tell you that another traditional part of the game is going away.  Joining wood bats, stirups, pine tar, and everybody that plays a position bats on the scrap heap of history will soon be signs.   There is a new…READ MORE

The Modern Way to Handle Things

Well United airlines has really stepped in the dog doo this time.  The world of social media has been on fire the past 24-hours after video surfaced of a doctor being beaten by airport security and dragged from a United flight because he refused to give up his seat on an overbooked flight.  The incident…READ MORE

The TV Time Machine

Do you know who may be the most powerful and shrewd people in the world of sports?  The men who serve on the Masters Television Committee.  Somehow, these guys convince TV networks to broadcast their event is a way that has become unprecedented in the world of sports and media.  There is nothing left that looks,…READ MORE

Who’s Next?

When the US battled fascism in World War II we had to take that fight to a lot of countries all around the world.  Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Burma, French Indochina, China, Japan and hundreds of small islands scattered throughout the South Pacific Ocean.  Our…READ MORE

It’s Never Enough

On Tuesday, voters in the Howard-Suamico School District rejected a referendum that would have given the school board an additional $4-MILLION a year over the state-mandated revenue cap FOREVER to cover recurring costs.  As a graduate of Bay Port High School I kept an interested eye on those results this week.  I have a couple of former classmates who…READ MORE