Wonkey Scooper Dispatches

I don’t have to be to work until the crack of Noon today, so I feel like I’m on vacation. That full-time work thing to recover what I lost in the recession? Forget it. I’ll buy a Megabucks ticket twice a week and hope for the best.

• $18 in double coupons yesterday at the Pick. Want some fettucini alfredo? The pasta and sauce were free after the coupon was doubled. Cat treats? Got lots of them. Fiber One milk shakes? For 68¢, how bad could they be? I passed on the Starbucks’ ice cream, though. Maybe next week.
• Wonkey Scoop.
• Here’s Mark Belling’s column from yesterday about a Fox Valley-area Democrat. We are all living in Chicago now. Believe me, I lived in the Chicago of Jane Byrne and Harold Washington and I’m seeing similarities in our new world of “Change”.  Those highway signs that tout Obamagod’s stimulus? That’s quintessential Chicago, where the benches at bus stops tout local politicians, often the mayor:
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• Meanwhile, the Democrats in Wisconsin say they didn’t raise taxes for 99% of the citizens. Who do they think is going to pay for a more than doubling of the “tipping” fee?
• Who do they think is going to pay for the loss of school aid, as Wigderson points out in his column?
• Don’t drive through Brookfield as the police are going Gestapo, thanks to the new Democratic budget.
• New Berlin gets access to Lake Michigan water, lake empties in 10 minutes:
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• Ten minutes later, Payne and Dolan was awarded a no-bid contract to build highway to Grand Rapids by Doyle administration.
• Some guy from Brookfield eviscerates global warming climate change ninnies in a guest editorial.
• Pete Kennedy talks about neighbors.
• Today’s county fair schedule.
• Thursday Sound Off.