I like it when nature reminds us that man cannot control it. The massive ice shoves that piled up on the western and southern shores of Lake Winnebago over the weekend and threatened to engulf buildings were great reminders of that. We can put up breakwalls, piers and bridges–but just a little bit of ice plus…… READ MORE
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Listen to Your Brain, Not Your Heart
As the Milwaukee Brewers get ready to play their first exhibition game of Spring Training down in Arizona today, the hot topic around camp is whether the team will trade outfielder Ryan Braun. Braun currently has a no-trade clause in his contract–which runs through 2021–which would allow the team to send him to a limited…… READ MORE
You Wanna Move It Along?
It took a couple of seasons, but Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is proving that he knows as little about what is good for his game as his predecessor Bud Selig did. This week, Manfred announced his agenda for “speeding up the game”. The “major change” that will get everyone out of the ballpark…… READ MORE
Farewell, Friend
As Bob Burnell mentioned in passing on Tuesday, we lost an old friend here at the Radio Ranch last week. Kevin Backstrom was an occasional fill-in here on WOSH and often worked the control board for our sports broadcasts on several stations. Kevin also taught communications at UW-Oshkosh, and we shared a frustration with…… READ MORE
This Democracy of Which You Speak….
One of the favorite chants of the protesters that have taken to the streets since the election of Donald Trump as President is “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKES!” It’s been used by illegal immigrants and their supporters as they refuse to go to work or school for a day. It’s used by the idiots…… READ MORE
Let Justice Be Done
The removal of a sitting politician is certainly not a matter to be taken lightly. As the “recall mania” of 2011 and 2012 proved here in Wisconsin, residents don’t like having their political decisions overturned or challenged before the terms of the winners are concluded. But I still hope we do get a hearing before…… READ MORE
Bread and Circus
In the movie Gladiator there is a scene where Maximus dispatches a bunch of other slaves in a staged battle before a small crowd in some remote outpost of the Roman Empire. After there is little reaction from the fans, Maximus turns to them and yells: Every time there is a White…… READ MORE
Thank You, Global Climate Change!!
If I get a chance to play some golf on a local course this weekend–or the next week given what the forecast looks like for the next ten days–I will not feel the least bit guilty about it. I won’t feel bad for sturgeon spearers that can’t get out to their shanties or Battle on…… READ MORE
We’re Going to Wish This Was Fiction
Michael Crichton, James Patterson and Jeffrey Archer can step away from the keyboards for awhile–the next great political thriller featuring espionage, computer hacking, blackmail and maybe even a little sex will be written by reporters at the New York Times, the Washington Post and on Politico.com. And, unfortunately, it’s not going to be a work…… READ MORE
Bad Luck Bucks
In March of 1969 the Milwaukee Bucks experienced the greatest stroke of good luck in basketball history when they won a coin flip against the Phoenix Suns to secure the number one pick in the NBA Draft that year. The Bucks would select Lew Alcindor out of UCLA. Alcindor would change his name to Kareem…… READ MORE
