It's true. Your favorite dynamic duo got down and dirty with some real hogs yesterday. But, by hogs I don't mean the rich republican "piggy" type of hog. Those porkers scare the living bejeezus outta the Invisible Woman...and that's saying something. No siree. By "Hogs" I mean HARLEY DAVIDSONS!
Yesterday, in the parlance of transportation wonks, was a multi-modal day of exercizing both the physical badger body and of the larger body politic! If intrigued, I beseech you (and when was the last time you were "beseeched", dear reader?) to read more after the fold!
And allow your flexible friend MF assure you that you won't be disappointed as we offer yet more evidence that Operation: Badger Justice is a thriving entity; both stubborn AND voraciously hungry.... like Galactus himself.
Multi-modalism is defined as the use of different types of transportation and its related infrastructure to travel for reasons fiscal or frolicsome. In the fair town of Madison, WI yesterday was the annual running of the "Crazylegs" race. Thousands of Wisconsinites both young and old took to the streets running various distances in support of various charities...most progressive in nature. To watch such an affair is quite inspiring as it is just another example of wisconsinites banding together to serve interests larger than themselves. Sure, they may look silly doing it (MFs Grandad always wondered why people... joggers, that is... would chase ghosts), but there they were, pumping their legs faster than Glen Beck spins conspriracies. No small feat. Ergo, many an angry badger got a shit-ton of physical exercise. The multi-modal aspect came into play as where the ghost-chasin' runners involved in the Crazylegs run utilized their feet to move around the Capitol square and beyond, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman partook of another event around the capitol square that was starkly different!
Amid recalls and recounts, hundreds of motorcycle riders decended upon downtown madison to show both support and solidarity for the workin' folk of Wisconsin ahead of a rally designed to keep Operation: Badger Justice moving forward. Prior to speeches from the likes of Mark Miller and Jon Erpenbach (2 of the heroic WI 14), the singular-sounding din of multitudes of Harley Davidsons (made proudly by union labor!) was such that the masses altered the standard chant too say "this is what democracy SOUNDS like!" We hope to be able to upload photos yet today of the event. But it must be confessed that to be there with both runners and riders was downright SEXY. IT WAS IN FACT hotter than Stevie Nicks circa 1978 AND a pancake griddle. Note the yummy factor of both examples, dear reader.
Aside from rallies and such, there is a lot going on in WI. Now before we describe the ongoing efforts of we badgers, let us jump on the wee soapbox that certain observations have pulled out for us.
Thing is this: there are a bunch of folks from Wisconsin BLOGGING about Wisconsin as a function of discussion. And while these discussions are great and keep our troubles here in America's Dairyland in the foreground of the collective mind of Kossacks everywhere, the undeniable fact is we need HELP. We require not just people to keep Kossacks engaged in the goings-on, but we need boots on the ground to do the far less sexy and indeed, mind-numbingly craptastic work of examining ballots cast in the supreme court race, assessing signatures for recall petitions and simply just showing up for events. While we are loathe to sound unappreciative, if not self-serving.... invisible woman and mr. Fantastic cannot do this alone, fellow Kossacks.
Here is what all too few of we badgers have been a-doing to exercize the body politic; currently, kloppenburg is still amid the recount. In every county we are assuring that every vote that was meant to be cast for the intellectually honest candidate was recorded for her. Moreover, we are trying to uncover what tricky little "Paste Pot Pete" tactics Prosser and his poopstains have done to potentially swipe the election. 5 days out of 7, either MF and/or IW have belted ourselves into the Fantasticar and travelled to whatever region we are called to in order to count votes, etc.
Case in point. It came to light just days ago that the dastardly forces trying to recall State Senator Robert Wirch were using the signatures of dead people to call for a recall election; quite a trick without a time machine. This was discovered when it was unearthed (hee! A pun!) That State Assemblyman Mark Pocan's grandfather signed Wirch's recall petition. Problem being that he had been dead for 20 years.
This is what we are up against folks.
PLEASE WISCONSINITES.... VOLUNTEER!