First off, rest in peace to Tony Snow, former Fox News contributor and presidential spokesman. He seemed to be a nice man with an infinite capacity to recognize the nonsense around him for what it was.

I wondered what was special about the silence this morning. It’s cool and breezy again with periodic rain. Nothing heavy, just sprinkles, but there was also great silence. Then I realized, and this isn’t a joke, that it was the lack of train horns. I haven’t heard a train yet today.

Sussex Lions Daze are on. I nearly forgot. Another festival that’s not nearly as fun as you remember when you were drinking. Still, the softball tournament is maybe the best in the area and the tractor pulls are diverting. I think it’s also the day of the Croatian picnic in Mukwonago. If you don’t go at lunch time, you won’t get any pork or lamb. It’s supposed to clear up by the afternoon.

  • Jessica wonders about the Democrats’ wackiness, exhibited by their handling of their own convention.
  • Sound Off callers address TV converters and Tim Schilke.
  • Pete Kennedy believes that closing any elementary school in Waukesha would be cruel and unusual punishment to children. Under those guidelines no school anywhere, at any time, for any reason could ever close again. It’s the whole mentality of sticking kids in cocoons where nothing bad can ever happen to them. It’s amazing any of us made it to adulthood.
  • In a related piece, as talk continues about the Frame Park baseball field, from the NY Times: A story right out of Lil Rascals meets Law and Order. Kids being kids build a wiffle ball field out of an empty lot and local adults make a mess of it all. This is what happens when you mix enviro-mental liberals and mommy state liberals.