What people are saying about Monologues of Dissent"Heather DuBois Bourenane needs to be more empowered to make policy for this nation." - The Mudflats
"That's HILARIOUS, Mom!" - Anonymous
"I laughed so hard I have hiccups!!!" - Blue Cheddar
"Thank you for your e-mail message. I welcome you expressing your views and concerns to me, and I commend you for participating in your state government. I take into account the views of all of the citizens of Wisconsin, and I will keep your specific comments in mind during my service as your Governor." - future former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
"Heather who got a death threat is one strong person....she's not backing down and the march to recall Walker continues..." WeGotEd Ed Schultz
"Very useful advice. Thank you." - Progressive Jones
"Excellent tour of the water closets of the west. It makes me want to run out and take pictures of all the potties I use in public." - Liz
"I commend you for your restraint in not using the F word when it comes to Scott Walker." - Anonymous
"Awesome, Heather - keep it coming. Dad" - Dad
"I LOVE your blog, your letters to the governor and your general sass and sarcasm...PLEASE keep it up, it's the only thing giving me a chuckle during this mess :) " - Anonymous
"This whole page is mindless propaganda." - Anonymous
"Oh my lord above this is so stinking good." - Julie
"Very funny and painful." - Bill
"Insanely well-written." - Anonymous
"Socialist comedians need coupons." - Anonymous
"You must be doing something right to have been called a socialist." - Zach W.
"Genius Heather, Genius. Love your subtle writing." - John O'Dell
"MOD - my favorite, forthright, righteously indignant dissenter. Fighter of social injustice. I share your stuff everywhere." - Laurel Tangen-Foster
"If only every person in WI read this letter! Heather DuBois Bourenane, you freaking ROCK!" - Melissa Luther
"You're going to put me out of a job. Outstanding." - Graeme Zielinski, Communications Director, Democratic Party of Wisconsin
"You called Walker a tooljob on nat TV. You are an American Badass!" - The Woody Guthrie Democrat Page
"That is exactly right." - John Nichols
"No finer words have ever been spoken!" - Sandy Smith
"Heather is true patriot in every sense of the word. She has my utmost and undying respect." - Peter J. Watts
"Heather, you muddy the discussion with facts in a wonderfully relentless manner. I am in awe. Your pen is a weapon of mass instruction." - Edward Kuharski
"That is the most inspiring expression of patriotism I've read since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."" - David Manning
"MoD, once again, a beautiful symphony of seethe, yet never giving in to blind rage. Your rage is 20-20. Bravo. " - Steve Manley
"Heather, you are 100% right, as always. So well said. Thank you!" - Anonymous
"That's the most beautiful blog post I've ever read, anywhere! Thank you for making me a part of it." - Mike Tapia
"She's right. She's always right." - Blue Wisconsin
Awards, Accolades, Honors, and so on
Recipient, "Official" Ironworker Metal of Honor (August 2011) in the "Shoving crushed glass into your eyes" category for "Onward Christian Soldiers: Kim Simac's Northwoods Crusade," a review of Simac's book," American Soldier Proud and Free. This award was granted by Milwaukee Ironworkers, for "subjecting yourself to page after horrifying page of Kim Simac's book - with the intent to make it through another one. Workers of Iron everywhere wish they had your fortitude. WELL DONE! (especially since we don't have to read it now)."
Monologues of Dissent is one of Circle of Moms' Top 25 Political Mom Blogs two years running! Thanks to all the fans who voted for MoD!
MoD was also featured as a July 2011 Protest Page of the Day at Defend Wisconsin News Round Up. This is a great page for keeping up with all Wisconsin protest news - you can follow on facebook here, and I highly recommend that you do, if you like knowing what's going on around here, as I believe you do.
Video from the Sept. 26, 2011 NBC Education Nation "State of Education" event featuring a panel of governors, including Scott "Teachers Are Thugs" Walker. Brian Williams kicks off the session by reading to Walker from the open letter I sent to them, which Williams had read, but Walker seems to have accidentally deleted from his email. Watching the governor squirm through this segment is the highest honor I have received to date.