After watching Brett Favre on Greta, Bill Murray on TMC and Captain Picard on SCI-FI, I realized that I had missed both the premiers of The Closer and Saving Grace, darn it. My assessments: Brett Favre doesn’t want to play in Green Bay unless he’s the starter, which I said yesterday. He’s very much a diva. Trade him to Baltimore for a 3rd round draft choice and pretend he died. Bill Murray’s a diva. Picard was a diva, too. Still, it was better than watching Chris Berman call the home run derby.

  • We’ll start with some letters to the Freeman editor. One says that the train horns are causing dangerous sleep deprivation. Another is a little wacky, but I think he’s against the train horns, too. One questions the wisdom of a Northwoods team in Frame Park.
  • Sound Off features callers addressing the Brett Favre thing. The consensus, I believe, is tilted against the 38-year old quarterback. But there are also callers on Mayor Larry and Frame Park. I find it hard to believe that there’s a populist groundswell of support for the baseball thing, but nobody listens to me.
  • The weekend police blotter.
  • The Waukesha Common Council is poised to strongly annoy some property owners.
  • There may also be a deal in the works to purchase some south side land for wells.
  • Three traffic accidents dominate the front page. The family of a West High School student injured in an accident is suing all of us and everyone. My opinion: the accident wasn’t our fault. Mark Benson entered a plea of not guilty in his fatal traffic accident. My opinion: it’s going to be difficult for prosecutors to prove he was intoxicated. A fatal accident on Hwy F and I94 leads to questions about safety. My opinion: I don’t remember which highway is F and which is 164 this week, but both of those intersections have billions of traffic lights and signs galore. I don’t see how so many accidents occur there except for people being in too much of a hurry. I stopped at a red light on Moreland Blvd. last night and no less than three SUVs zipped around me through the intersection, through the red lights.
  • The Waukesha County Fair starts tomorrow. I like the Demo Derby, especially if I know someone who is competing. I like the livestock auction. I like the animals and wish there were more cows.  The last few times I went was with complimentary tickets from a vendor. Free, it’s worth it. Worth $8 plus parking? Not to me.