Response to Shawn

1. Second Trips:

I've done many dumb things at Miller Park. This, at the time, was one of the more less-thoughtful of events. Looking back at it now, it makes a good story (from what I can remember of it). When you put Shawn and I together, sober, we don't make the best decisions (see also: singing Neil Diamond in the office at work, whistles, crop dusting each-other's office). When you load us up with booze...oh man a lotta booze, your glutton for trouble.

I'd do it again, if i could

2. The Chorizo:

It was Rachel Ray who first introduced me to the Chorizo. I'm a big fan. I love to put it in my eggs on a sunday morning with a cup of strong coffee. It's great in mac n cheese. And even better running around the bases at Miller Park.

3. Music those crazy kids are listening to these days:

This is actually concerning to me. There are a few thoughts that I have on this. It seems that now-a-days, groups come and go. A group will become popular when the OC features one of their songs, and everyone will go buy the MP3, but then lose interest in it. It seems that groups have no staying power anymore. I fear that this is teaching kids that you don't have to work hard for a consistent product. Its OK to produce something good just once. What ever happened to giving 110%, 100% of the time?

Moreover, it seems to me that the undergirding theme for current music is very depressing. There are a lot of songs about suicide, having bad days, relationships breaking up, etc. I think the saddest song I remember from my childhood was that Phil Collins song that everyone thought he wrote about someone drowning and not doing anything about it. Milli Vanilli never wrote about suicide!

I think the most concerning part of this inquiry, however, is that fact that they are listening to music. ALL THE TIME. Those damn white iPOD earphones are in their ears all the time. Its seems as though kids are becoming insecure of their ability to function in public without them.

4. Professional Wrestling as a metaphor of a republican-led congress:

Oh...wow. I remember watching wrestling as a kid on Saturday mornings with my dad. The Animal, Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan.

As for the republican-led congress and its intimate relationship with professional wrestling. i'm going to assume that by professional wrestling you mean the kind that is basically all a theatre production, and basically the literature equivalent to fiction.

see, this makes it all easy. Because its fake. It's a bunch of over-paid actors. The only reason why it still exists is because people pay to see them. The ignorant following actually believe what they see is true. Anyone with a lick of intelligence and common sense, can see right through it as a big hoax.

is that enough?

5. Handicapping the 2008 Tomah mayoral race.

Well...it appears as though Chuck Ludeking successfully ran a mayoral campaign earlier this year, and nailed down his third term as Mayor. Russell Peterson tried once again to provide Tomah with a new face of leadership, and failed. Again. Like in 2004 when he lost to now Mayor Ludeking by just 602 votes! (by the way, Ludeking got 813 votes, and Peterson 211 votes). I think it's safe to say that Ludeking has been giving a mandate.

I think Mayor Ludeking's stand on the proposed smoking ban will play into the city's decision to allow him to return to the reign. However, in more current news, the Mayors decision whether or not to support the city of Tomah in the preserving of the Boy Scout cabin near Buckley Park may rally support for him. You can vote on the issue in the Reader Poll here. I voted NO. I refuse to support the Boy Scouts


(pumpkin, i will not respond to your question)