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Left Business Brain
with Tom Breuer
05/13/13When government-haters govern: Scott Walker and the WEDCIn my mind, the ongoing troubles at Scott Walker’s WEDC could only stem from the sensibilities of an anti-government governor who came into office earnestly believing Madison is the problem and then almost immediately set out to prove it. For some reason, I can’t help but picture a cabal of government-scorning zealots, well into their cups, sitting around a table hatching ways to undermine their own agency, erupting in bawdy laughter and micturating their Ayn Rand Underoos at the mention of each new fantastical scheme. |
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05/08/13Failing upward: As Scott Walker’s job-creation record worsens, his star continues to riseWe live in a world where reward does not always neatly correlate with performance. CEOs who wreck their companies often get away with bags full of booty. In 2008, Wall Street greedheads crashed the economy but continued to haul in bonuses as their bets went bust. Keith Richards has outlived millions of his contemporaries despite having looked like a piece of masticated beef jerky for the better part of 30 years. Posted at 09:08 AM | Permalink | Comments: 3 |
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05/07/13You can’t spell ‘Scott Walker fails’ without ‘Scott Walker,’ part 1,273: the WEDCThe growing disconnect between Scott Walker’s actual accomplishments and the chorus of hosannas disgorging from his faithful fandom got even weirder last week following the revelation that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the governor’s pro-growth brainchild, was apparently more troubled than Mel Gibson at an open-bar bat mitzvah. Posted at 06:59 AM | Permalink | Comments: 4 |
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04/29/13The UW’s hefty reserve is eye-opening, but skyrocketing tuition across the country is the real outrageI have two reactions to the recent revelation that the UW System is sitting on a mammoth $648 million nest egg: My first impulse is to shrug, grab a beer, and proceed to calculate how much the Packers’ recent draft picks will make for every question they got right on the Wonderlic – a revealing exercise that’s at once highly entertaining and unbearably soul-crushing. (Unfortunately, I was born with a modest aptitude for spelling and grammar instead of biceps that look like Dick Morris and Dennis Kucinich being shoved inside a pair of plus-sized Baby Björns.) Posted at 12:13 PM | Permalink | Comments: 3 |
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04/22/13Note to Ron Johnson: We won’t forget your vote on background checksI’m working on new NRA slogans to better reflect the organization’s increasingly hidebound outlook. “If criminal background checks are allowed, only criminals won’t have guns” is a good one. Or “First they came for the convicted felons, and I wasn’t a convicted felon, so I didn’t speak out. Then they came for the criminally insane, and I wasn’t criminally insane, so I didn’t speak out. Then a homeless guy fell asleep on my porch, and there were no criminally insane felons with assault weapons left to help me protect my stash of munitions and freeze-dried legumes, so I had to shoot him myself.” Posted at 12:40 PM | Permalink | Comments: 3 |
Tom Breuer, IB Web editor, has spent much of his life trying to explain his leftward leanings – sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing. He's used to being surrounded and ganged up on, so he welcomes comments from conservatives. He is the co-author of three political humor books, including Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly.
