bike weather in milwaukee

aahhh, wisconsin. how i do miss you.

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go the pack

i love brett favre. greatest packer ever. EVER. and one of the nfl’s greatest ever as well.

i’ve hated the way his on-off-on-off retirement bullshit has gone on. i didn’t like the way the packers treated him at the end. but i also think favre contributed to that.

good luck to him. he’s a champion, on and off the field, and how can you knock a 39-year-old who’s 3-0 so far this season?

you can’t.

having said all that … GO PACK! yeh, yeh, in minnesota, blah blah blah. GO PACK! yeh, yeh, $2.75 outsiders. GO PACK!

$5 plonked down on the beloved Pack.

wisconsin A-G refuses to defend same-sex spousal benefits

you’ll be unsurprised to learn that this arseclown is a republican. this from the AP:

MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin’s attorney general says he won’t defend a law that grants same-sex couples spousal benefits.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Friday that a law extending legal privileges such as hospital visitation and inheritance to gay and lesbian couples is unconstitutional.

He it ignores a voter-approved constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage and any “substantially similar” relationships.

The Wisconsin Family Council has asked the state Supreme Court to invalidate the law. Law supporters say Van Hollen, a Republican, is trying to make a name for himself.

Wisconsin was the first state to grant domestic partnerships to gay couples despite a constitutional ban. It also was first in the Midwest to legislatively provide some legal protections.

perfect video clip

because (a) perfect natural buoyancy … a rare thing … and (b) it takes place in northern wisconsin in summer. can’t ask for more than that.

ah, wisconsin, don’t disappoint me

some christian loonies in my favourite american state want to burn a gay teen coming-out novel. silly bastards. don’t they know every teen in the state is gonna read it now just to see what all the fuss is about? go eat some more cheese, ya buffoons.

Nothing like a good book burning to stir up a debate on free expression, said Alison Flood in the Guardian. A group of Christians in Wisconsin is suing for the “right to publicly burn a copy of” Francesca Lia Block’s Baby Be-Bop, a gay teen coming-of-age novel. The lawsuit comes after a court threw out a request by a West Bend, Wisc., group to pull books they deemed to be sexually explicit off of library shelves.

It’s hard to believe “we are still plagued by book burning religious zealots” in the 21st century, said Micha Jaystone in Examiner.com. At least this campaign by some West Bend, Wisc., scolds to “restrict access to teenage books they deemed sexually explicit” was tossed out of court recently—hopefully, this “frivolous” book-burning lawsuit will be, too.

Nobody wants to ban legitimate literature, said the West Bend citizens blog Wisconsin Speaks Up. We’re simply asking “for a balance of information and simple identification of sexually explicit books for minors.” In fact, “religion, morality, politics, even pornography, have little to do with this matter”—we just want to “protect” our children “from inappropriate material in the public library.”

from the week.

… and, will my beloved wisconsin be next?

about time, cheeseheads.

Late Thursday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced it would take up a case thrown out of Dane County court last year.

In 2006, Wisconsin voters approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will look at a challenge to that vote. Namely, whether the referendum illegally put two issues to voters at the same time: whether to ban gay marriage and whether to outlaw civil unions.

The case was brought to the courts by a UW-Oshkosh professor.

Last month, the Court of Appeals asked the high court to take the case immediately because of its statewide significance.

from wkowtv.com.