Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Keith Posley should be terminated over the district’s failure to submit financial reports to the state, but the repercussions should not end there.

Blaska promised to smell the roses. That day came this morning when The Lovely Lisa placed in a slender silver vase (“vahse”) a single pink rose right where your irascible bloggeur could not miss it — that being in front of his battered computer keyboard. Beautiful: the rose, the thought, the wife, my life! Now for today’s angry rant.

On the evening of February 15, 2023, Stephen Fleck was walking his dog on Schroeder Road on Madison’s Southwest Side. The father of five and Marine Corps veteran, “Steve was known for his towering height, quick wit, intelligent dialogue, lyrical writing, intricate art, philosopher’s mind, and compassionate counselor heart,” according to his obituary.

For years some people in New York City who knew Donald Trump said that based on his lack of ethics in both business and his personal life he should not have sought the Republican Party nomination. Trump would not fare well, they said, with every aspect of his life under the microscope.

My name is Ed Delgado. I am an American. And I will be voting for Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America this November. What we have seen today’s guilty verdict in the Trump trial should scare the hell out of every one of us.

Last weekend, Donald Trump spent his limited free time on the trail courting the gun lobby – delivering the keynote speech at the NRA’s annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. This is no surprise.

There has been much discussion recently from some politicians about banning Delta-8 and other hemp products. The concerns arise from rising use of teens getting sick from using too much hemp and mixing it with other substances, for the purpose of intoxication.

HAL was the artificially intelligent (and authentically diabolical) computer in 1968’s landmark film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Despite his/its programmed politeness, HAL, uh … let’s just say HAL had some flaws.

Apparently it isn’t enough for Donald Trump’s cultists to declare that an American election was crooked and stolen from the man they worship as an idol. Now the American judicial system and a trial by a jury is rigged, too.

Immediately after his historically unprecedented conviction on 34 charges of falsifying business records, Donald J. Trump tried Thursday to suggest that the jury’s decision was an affront to democracy.

“How bad are things that MPS? Only 40% of MPS sophomores are proficient at reading and less than 30% are proficient at math. And the graduation rate and MPS is abysmal. Obviously what MPS has been doing is not working. So why has DPI ignored the problems of MPS? Why can’t the Superintendent and her deputies take a leadership role?”

Trump was convicted on all 34 counts: “In Scheme To Illegally Influence 2016 Election” (Washington Post – WP). He had falsified business records to conceal a “hush money” payment to buy a porn actress’s silence. The underlying crime was a New York election law that makes it a crime to “conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means” (WP).