The fancy dress parade at Halloween never fails to impress. From killer clown to ‘warts and all’ witches, superheroes to dead celebrities, your local ‘trick or treaters’ are no doubt concocting their latest gruesome outfit already – inevitably involving a bed sheet, a pair of scissors and a whole heap of tomato ketchup.

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Wisconsin State Journal columnist Doug Moe has already taken heat from Madison’s greatest Chicago Dog defender, former mayor Paul Soglin, for supporting (or at least not objecting to) some of the unconventional choices made by the latest incarnation of Mad Dog’s on Henry Street.