This is a blatant plug for the blog of a very dear old friend of mine.
Ed Garvey was basically very much my stepdad during college. His daughter and I were, and are, very dear friends, and I spent many, many hours at their home in Madison, WI enjoying the graciousness of Ed and his wife Betty and their hospitality during Thanksgiving breaks, summer vacations, and other holidays when I wasn't able to go home, as well as return trips to Madison to visit them and Pam, and take in a football game over the years.
Ed has a long an varied history both nationally and in Wisconsin politics. When I first met him, he was the Director of the NFL Player's Association and oversaw the league's negotiations through one of the worst labor disputes in NFL history. Ed is perhaps Wisconsin's best known rebel lawyer. He is also a former Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General and was the 1998 Democratic nominee in the gubernatorial race, in which he was outspent 13-1 by his Republican opponent-President Bush's recently resigned Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. I still have his campaign button on the bulletin board in my office "Strange Individuals for Garvey!"
His blog is very Wisconsin centric as you might imagine, but he's always an interesting character and I just love him to pieces.
