BBC News: Disabled men do 'The Full Monty'

A group of disabled men who created a new take on the film "The Full Monty" have been praised by a leading disability charity.

The Crippendales follows Hull man Lee Kemp, 34, as he puts together a group of men with various disabilities and gets them to strip at a hen night.

Wow. That's about all that can be said. Wow.

UWM SA needs due process

In reading all of the articles (especially the horrifically inaccurate article written by Megan Twohey in the Saturday, October 20, 2006 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and blogs on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Student Association, I think it's important to remind the public that innocence precedes guilt in this country.

As a side note, I'd link to Twohey's article, but the online posting was dramatically changed (to reflect accuracy) from its original print version.

I'll grant there are some flags and questionable occurrences that have transpired within the SA. However, the SA also has a very reasonable, strong defense for denying the administration its financial records.

Due process must play out before anyone should finger point, suggest blame or call for resignations.

Media says Falk, electors say Van Hollen

A prime example of why the media has no business dabbling in the art of fortune telling. Exit polls are about as reliable as tarot cards.

When WTMJ4 projected Gov. Jim Doyle would win another four years with less than 10 percent of precincts reporting, I became alarmed. I'm sure the station was sitting on pins and needles until the Associated Press also declared Doyle the winner a few hours later.

TMJ also projected Kathleen Falk Wisconsin's next attorney general. The Falk campaign said it was "cautiously optimistic" about the projections and numbers coming in, despite being at least two percentage points behind J.B. Van Hollen until 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Then, behold! All of the numbers came in and Van Hollen will sit as the state's top cop.

As I said before, in the interest of clarity, accuracy and pragmatism, the numbers will take form and meaning once all the numbers are in.

Media predictions disappoint, sicken

The media is really good at over-stepping its bounds--all for ratings, advertisement pricing, to be first--grappling so-called bragging rights.

Exit polls are being touted, reaching for what these numbers could mean. To be clear, and pragmatic, the numbers will take form and meaning once all the numbers are in.

If I were to rely on exit polls or single-digit precinct reports, or any reports less than 100 percent for that matter, I'd be a fool. Pockets of conservatives or liberals that report early or in waves will shift the numbers back and forth like the ocean's roll--which is just as sporadic.

If I were to buy into the numbers being flaunted, I can attest to my heart breaking and disappointment in a society I have to be associated with.

The numbers acknowledge that we have an ignorant, uninformed state populous regressing to pre-enlightenment thinking.

Current law already forbids marriage between a man and a man and a woman and a woman. It's one thing to outlaw something, discriminating first against blacks, then against women and now homosexuals, it's another to write this hateful discrimination into the fabrics of our constitution--what I once considered a beacon of hope and equality.

Where will it stop? Where did the idealistic notion of a separation of church and state run off to?

The numbers continue to nauseate. Neither Gov. Jim Doyle nor challenger Mark Green should be Wisconsin's governor. Holding true to the last four elections, there is little revealed of action or platforms. The candidates only run misleading, dirty attacks about each other. It's a two-party, all-or-nothing system. What about moderates? What of those who think on a cross-partisan plane? Think of the difference that could be made with the money spent on campaigning! Think health care and prescription drug costs. Students, think education!

An advisory referendum on the return of the death penalty to the state looks like it will pass. The Wisconsin populous thinks its judges should pass God's judgment--deciding who lives and who dies?

The blatant hypocrisy is unending.

"Thou shalt not kill."

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

Wait, I thought Mosaic Law was fulfilled with Jesus' coming?

So which is it?

With such a hypocritical society, a lazy populous that doesn't fulfill its civic obligations to cast informed votes and relies on knee-jerk reactions, it's no wonder Wisconsin has sunk its progressive ship to the bottomless pit of stag-nicity.

Kant would scold you. I gladly join him.

Young voters should know the issues

The Journal Sentinel launched a creative quiz for those people who do not follow politics closely.

That quiz gives the Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidate answers to 15 key issues.

See where you stand: http://www.jsonline.com/electionquiz/quiz.aspx?e=1&r=1&rs=12010

If those 15 issues don't suffice, the Journal Sentinel has also compiled a list of 50 issues and the stances of U.S. Rep. Mark Green and Gov. Jim Doyle: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=483236