What do you think when you hear a politician say the following?

“National security is more important than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party and to use it to try and get someone elected will ultimately end up in defeat and disaster for that political party.”

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When I met them serendipitously outside the People’s Book Co-Op, the Milwaukee Network for Social Change looked like a normal group of college students. Tattooed, rumpled, cigarettes wafting out of one hand and a bike in the other, these people, though clustered in a small group of four, looked like the sort that one could look to for unconventional information. I was there, after an exhausting day at work, in search of a literary magazine. What I found was a cause.

“What’s going on?” I asked them as I cautiously wheeled by. Meetings are usually held on Tuesdays but as fate would have it the weekly meeting on this particular week was moved to Sunday. I wasn’t doing anything in particular and as usual my curiosity ruled, I decided to stay and check out the meeting.

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Cross-breeding will work…next year

I was at the UWM Union the other day and picked up the Sept. 4 Post to see how things were going. Everything seems OK except a problem with your "Fringe" page 4 story titled, "A little tomato 101."

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First it was blamed on us human beings.

Then fault shifted to the cars that we drive.

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I went down to New Orleans last spring. It was and remains in my heart as one of the most humbling experiences of my entire life. Growing up in Milwaukee, I feel we take for granted the fact that the worst things that can happen to us are lots of snow, or as we have recently experienced, the dreaded flash flooding.

New Orleans is 15 hours from Milwaukee by car. My friend John and I drove the whole way through and it wasn’t easy, but we had the essentials to make it through. Down South, life is rather quaint; people go about their business in a slower, more laboring way.

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Yesterday I witnessed a young teacher screaming at her students. Not only was that alone enough to make the scene disturbing, but the kids were K-4 students and she had her face only an inch away from theirs.

This disruption lasted for about two minutes. The more she yelled at the children, the more they either ignored her or acted up. I myself, along with two other adult workers at the site, backed away from the scene and shuddered at the image presented before us.

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On Sunday, Sept. 8, the Democratic Party held a debate between its presidential contenders. The usual things were discussed – Iraq and immigration, among other things – but something was different about this debate that set it apart from the others.

It was broadcast almost entirely in Spanish.

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