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Charles Dickens wrote a timeless work entitled A Tale of Two Cities. What follows is most likely not a timeless tale, but rather a very timely tale of two governors—with a sequel involving a third governor. Last month, Governor Kristi Noem, a Republican governor from South Dakota, who became a darling of the conservatives because of her positions and policies regarding COVID in her state, suddenly became pretty unpopular in many circles. Governor Noem lost her Miss Popularity award when she vetoed a bill that she had earlier signaled she would sign. That bill would have prohibited biologic...

2021 | Week of March 8 | Radio Transcript #1402 Doug and Sally have decided their ten-year marriage isn’t working, and they want out. They just aren’t happy anymore; the love they once felt is gone—and working it out just isn’t going to happen. They agree to divorce—as amicably as possible—and take the legal steps to make that happen. They of course will share custody of their two minor children, ages eight and six. During the time it takes for them to finalize the divorce, Sally’s friendship with a longtime co-worker, Sam, blossoms into a romance. She is convinced he is the one...

2021 | Week of March 1 | Radio Transcript #1401 A 1996 survey revealed that less than 1% of Wisconsin citizens, or about 32,425 residents were problem gamblers and that the annual social costs related to those problem gamblers was over $300 million, or $9,469 per problem gambler in general and over $10,000 per casino problem gambler. Those numbers clearly should have told us something.  But they didn’t. And now, in 2021, Wisconsin has approximately 7% of its adult population, or  about 333,000 people, identified as problem gamblers, which means, even using the same 1996 per-gambler cost, ...

2021 | Week of January 18 | Radio Transcript #1395 On January 22, 1973, seven of nine US Supreme Court justices, in a show of raw judicial activism, determined that nationwide a woman deciding to kill her unborn baby was her constitutional right based on a perceived right to privacy provided in the 14 th Amendment of the US Constitution, even though the word privacy, not to mention any explicit right to privacy, cannot be found in that rule-of-law document anywhere. To get to that distorted view, these justices essentially made up this so-called “right to abortion” out of whole cloth—o...

2020 | Week of December 21 | Radio Transcript #1391 “Daddy, Daddy! More yites! More yites! We need more yites!” That was my child-like and constant comment at Christmas growing up. Dad never could get enough lights on the inside tree, the house and the outside trees, or anywhere else to satisfy me. To this day, I love the lights of Christmas.  Frankly, I really like light in general. The months and weeks leading to and just after the Winter Solstice are often difficult. When we reach December 20 or 21, whichever day the Winter Solstice is, I am immediately heartened because I know the da...