“We do not act rightly because we have acted rightly, these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions. We are what we repeatedly do.” So do better. I just finished watching Mad Men for the 2nd time about a month ago and it made me want to…

"There's gonna be some stuff you gonna see that's gonna make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this." - Tupac Amaru Shakur …

It is difficult to pinpoint the moment or event that caused me to reject Donald Trump as a candidate because it wasn’t a moment during his 2016 campaign. I had long discarded him as a person before he even tried to enter the primaries. Likely, it was the Celebrity Apprentice…

Crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is a misdemeanor offense. “Being illegally present in the U.S. has always been a civil, not criminal, violation of the Immigrant & Nationality Act (INA), and subsequent deportation and associated administrative processes are civil proceedings.” So says the Congressional Research Service in a report for Congress…

About three years ago I answered a Facebook post from a La Crosse Tribune reporter concerning a minimum wage idea that was being put on the Wisconsin gubernatorial ballot for the 2014 midterm election. …

Who knew healthcare was going to be so complicated? Ted Kennedy knew how difficult it had been and would eventually be. Howard Baker knew how difficult it was, so did Tom Daschle, & George Mitchell (yes, that George Mitchell). Bob Dole knew the complications of health care, even though declaring…

How do we move forward in Donald Trump’s version of America? Many people have been asking that question, or asking what do we do now? Only time will tell. For now, this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to try to be happy, dammit. Trump can do what…

Falcon Heights, Minnesota to Baton Rouge, Louisiana is a five hour plane ride, an 18 hour trip by car, and a day and a half to two days by train. The two cities are separated by 1,200 miles, yet the route taken down I-55 leaves little doubt in your mind…