Author: TrogloPundit

That’s the Division III national champs, the Big Ten champs and the Superbowl Champs! I am exhausted. Note: I did not make that automotivator until just now. No way I was going to risk the jinx. Note to the Pittsburgh Steelers: you’re an amazing organization, making the Superbowl three times in six years. All that […]

Slightly different this week, since I was…well, distracted. Couldn’t seem to concentrate on actual news. Five and a half hours, by the way. Only five and a half more hours. Link: The Bleacher Report. Additional explanation here, 4th item. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Moe Lane. Link: Ann Althouse. Kickoff is just never gonna get here. Link: […]

As if the refugee camps sprouting up along Wisconsin’s southern border weren’t enough, now we might need them along the western border, too: A taxing solution? Expanding state sales tax could fill hole, but industries are ready to fight. Lawyers across Minnesota — 16,000 of them — have been urged to join a “call to […]

Last week, I wrote: “Corporations already do share wealth” Which is true, but not precisely true, as a few commenters pointed out. It’s the word “share” that causes the problem. It’s true that corporations “share” wealth. But not in the same way that children — we hope — “share” toys. Not the way you “share” […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. As if that needs any explanation. Link: Nice Deb. Link: Instapundit. Link: Trog. Link: Jammie Wearing Fool. Link: The Agitator. Picture found at Rather Childish, although it […]

From the Daily Caller: (Rand) Paul said Thursday that he will introduce another bill “in the next two or three weeks” that would address the Social Security entitlement program by raising the age of eligibility for younger workers and use “means testing” to determine if a citizen with high income is eligible to receive benefits. […]

What a wonderful, wonderful headline: Rich corporations “must share wealth” to avoid unrest You wonder, just for a moment, what they mean by “avoid unrest.” Is that some kind of threat? Violence? Vitriol? So soon after Tuscon? I kid, of course. Also: free speech. Even for Greek socialists. Just remember, boys and girls: you want […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: The Tatler. Link: Real Debate Wisconsin. Link: HotAirPundit. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Mister Pterodactyl. That’s not actually related to any news, but how could I pass it […]

Why didn’t anybody ever tell us these things? Oh, right. People did. There’s tax increase fallout coming already from south of the border. South of the Wisconsin border, that is: Illinois could be smelling less delicious in the near future… …they could smell worse? …thanks to the state’s new tax regime. Jimmy John’s founder and […]

I’m thinking a big wide ol’ grin, a subtle shake of the head, and the sentence: “Is he serious?” Okay, fine, it’ll probably be longer (and more policy-wonkish) than that. I’m just saying. You could just laugh for a minute and tell America how “that guy just cracks me up.” Note to Paul Ryan’s staff: […]

UPDATE – title fixed, fer cry-eye. Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Legal Insurrection. Link: No Runny Eggs. Link: Outside the Beltway. Link: Weasel Zippers. Link: The TrogloPundit. And, of course: See […]

Escape to Wisconsin! Once, that phrase was a beloved Wisconsin bumper sticker, looking to goad tourists into the Badger State. Feel-good, scaredy-cat “progressivism” did away with that, though: what were we doing, after all, inviting escaped prisoners and other lawbreakers to lose themselves in our state! But today, the phrase has re-emerged. Not as a […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Future of Capitalism. Link: The TrogloPundit. Link: The MacIver Institute. Link: GoDaddy Bowl. Link: Left Coast Rebel. Link: Michelle Malkin. Link: The Other McCain. Previously: This […]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. It may not be quite as glorious a phrase as “Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee,” but it’s up there. Anyway, this was the single best line (I thought) from Governor Walker’s inauguration speech on Monday: Article I, Section 22 […]

Ed Driscoll blogs: The Onion goofs on “Revamped WPA To Create 50,000 New Jobs By Disassembling, Reassembling Hoover Dam.” Which is, by the way, a great idea. Think of the stimulus effects! As one of Ace’s co-bloggers notes, “Keynesian ‘stimulus’ in one easy lesson.” Keynsianism doesn’t exactly call for this kind of thing: general Keynsianism […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: GOP 12. Link: Steve Benen. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, December 13-19 This Week in Automotivators, December 6-12 Make your own automotivators.

BankruptingAmerica.org finished their “Year in Wasteful Spending” series today with entries #3 through #1. Links to the whole series: #1-3 #4-6 #7-9 #10-12 #13-15 My favorite is #5: Welfare isn’t what it used to be. $69 million of California’s welfare dollars were accessed through the state-issued debit cards outside of the state. Where was the […]

…smokers! Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes for patrons RICHMOND, Va. — Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English settlement. Naturally, the rabidly right-wing Associated Press ignores this evidence of […]

It was dangerous. Now it isn’t. Thanks, science, for clearing that up. Saccharin was first listed as a hazardous waste in 1980 after studies in rats showed the sweetener caused higher rates of bladder cancer. The EPA subsequently determined it to be a “potential human carcinogen”. Yet two decades later, the National Toxicology Program and […]

Previously: The liberal/Democrat civil war, part xii; The liberal/Democrat civil war, parts ix, x, and xi; The liberal/Democrat civil war, part viii: this time, it’s got ears. Normally, the “previously” section goes at the bottom of the post. This one’s different, because: I think this’ll get me more hits; and I want to emphasize that […]

Education. Important, yes. Expensive, apparently so. But do important plus expensive equal success? Over at OpenMarket.org, Hans Bader says no: America spends far more on education than countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Italy, both as a percentage of its economy, and in absolute terms. Yet despite this lavish government support for education, college […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Verum Serum. Link: The Sundries Shack. Link: Theo Spark. Link: Mister Pterodactyl. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: A Lego a Day, via Obi’s Sister. And two more that […]

Which kind of implies that there’s a bad time to be rich. Which I doubt. Still. Ben Steverman writes: It’s a Great Time to Be Rich I’m sure he means that in a relative sense. Relative to the 1970s, for example. His opening paragraph: A bonanza of new and extended tax benefits could make it […]

Unbelievable, and yet wholly understandable: House GOP transition team leaders will recommend a change to the lower chamber’s rules that would require all members to prove that their legislation is constitutional. …Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), the head of the House Rules Working Group, on Thursday said the GOP transition team will recommend the adoption of […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Madison.com. Link: Pirate’s Cove. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Confederate Yankee. Link: Just One Minute. Link: Hot Air. And: Previously: This Week in Automotivators, November 29-December 5 This […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: The Right Scoop. And while we’re on this, has the young man in that picture ever been identified? Does anybody know? Link: Gateway Pundit. Link: And […]

First, there were the Sarahmotivators. Then, the Obamotivators. The Krugmotivator, and, just a trifle less disturbingly, the Smittymotivator. And, now: the Goremotivator. Via Grandpa Steve (who also neglected to inform me of this important development), Mind Numbed Robot broke this new ground in Automotivator technology. As a well-known connoisseur of all things Automotivator…well, you know. […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Weasel Zippers. Link: CNN. Link: Right Wing News. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: The American. Link: Althouse. Link: TrogloPundit. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, November 15-21 This Week […]

The background: a woman named Corinne Theile had a unique and…let’s just call it interesting…idea for getting through airport security: “Every time I go through security I always say, ‘I don’t even know why I got dressed this morning.’ I end up taking off belts, jewelry and everything else off anyway,” Theile said. “I don’t […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: The Wyblog Link Another Black Conservative Link: TrogloPundit Link: Republican Redefined Link: We Smirch Link: Conservatives 4 Palin And: Previously: This Week in Automotivators, November 1-7 […]