The day before his State of the State address, Gov. Scott Walker joked that going ahead with the speech amid the blizzard forecast for late Tuesday might increase the chances of people staying home to actually watch it on TV.

He further predicted — snicker, snicker — that his speech might make it all the way up to the fifth or sixth item on that evening's news, well after stories about the storm and the Packers' Super Bowl berth.

Nothing like a man who knows his limitations.

Walker didn't fail to meet the decidedly low bar he set for his first State of the State. For those who opted for reruns of "The Office" or didn't get the paper on Wednesday, here's about the sum total of "news" delivered by the Republican governor: Milwaukee's Zoo Interchange construction will get started earlier than scheduled.

Almost making it into that category, but designed more to scare state employees out of their wits, was this: "Asking public employees to make a pension payment of just over 5 percent (which is about the national average) and a (health) premium payment of 12 percent (which is about half of the national average) would save the state more than $30 million over three months."