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A place where everybody knows your name
Breaking up is hard to do. RIP: Neil Sedaka. It was terrible, bad, and awful news. Sofra’s restaurant in Middleton WI was closing, your irascible host learned while seated at his usual place near the front window facing the entrance on Elmwood Avenue. Always the same seat in the same place, Thursday mornings at 7:30. Routine, blessed routine! First and third Thursdays of the month for the main group, then a smaller rump group on even numbered weeks. We are the Troupis Groupis, an unregistered political inaction group founded by the retired Dane County judge. Originally met at the Three…
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Good thing the two weren’t Republican!
Progressivism has its privileges. Brother Mike was working the farm one morning when he got a call from The Capital Times. A supervisor, a member of his conservative caucus, had been slurring his words at a county government meeting the night before, the news reporter related. Might have been drunk. What are you going to do about it? Mike was chairman of the Dane County Board of Supervisors at the time but at that particular moment was attempting to wrest some income from the indifferent soil of rural Sun Prairie. The reporter for the progressive newspaper expressed dissatisfaction with…
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America can feel good about itself again
and quit the party of angry! Here is why Republicans will win the mid-terms, even here in increasingly blue Wisconsin. We’re optimists, they’re not. Democrats scold you for not checking your guilty white privilege at the door of this stolen land. Maybe progressives don’t live in a world where everyone is a victim of your selfish success, but they’re working on it. We cannot encounter Elizabeth Warren without picturing Nurse Ratched sexually shaming poor Billy Bibbit in the Cuckoos Nest. Ilhan Omar flees Somalia to lecture America about how screwed up we are. Zohran Mamdani wants us to feel…
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They must be crazy
Democrats can’t stand up for America. President Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night got off to an auspicious start when, just a few minutes in, sergeants at arms (they were not masked) hustled the noisome Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and his gilded cane out of the chambers. Did not attend a GOP watch party but guessing some of the kibitzers commented, “That’s a start.” (Green held sign saying “Black people are not apes.” Well, Trump did ask for it.) A goodly number of Democrat(ic) lawmakers chose to go AWOL and held their own event. Reminded the indentured servants…
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Who’s watching?
Trump’s State of the Union address tonight? This gracelessly aging bloggeur lights a small votive (and fruit fly repellant) candle to give thanks that we have not been elected to the speaker of any house, be it the WI State Assembly or the U.S. House of Representatives (or the Stately Manor when the Lovely Lisa is in residence). Not that we have been asked. A requirement of the position, it appears, is to sit high upon the dais behind the governor or president whilst the chief executive reads his State of the State address, as Tony Evers did last week,…
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Our politics is more stupid than …
“An eye for an eye makes both people blind.” — Sen. John Neely Kennedy, R-Louisiana. The indentured servants run to the flickering b&w Philco like it is spitting casino coins whenever is heard the honeyed tones of Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. (We watch more C-Span these days because we like our Metamucil straight from the cow.) You can smell the corn meal frying in the lard when Senator Kennedy speaks. He’s today’s Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and Bill Maher but with committee chairmanships. Senator Kennedy is out with a book — the title alone demands its New York Times…
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A ferocious work ethic was a virtue among our elders; today it’s evidence of systemic injustice. If only those tireless, uncomplaining parents and grandparents had been given more help from the government, they wouldn’t have had to make the sacrifices for which their children, now successful politicians, praise them. — Barton Swaim, Wall St. Journal
Lemme see some I.D.
Mayor Mamdani is requiring 5 forms of ID to shovel New York City out of record snow. — NY Post
Six Big Ten football teams made The Athletic’s ranking of the top 25 transfer portal classes. Wisconsin was one of them!
Today’s Laff Riot!
A.O.C. is kind of like Kamala Harris, only with more bartending experience. — U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA
Governor Pritzker is so toxic even the Chicago Bears want to leave Illinois.
Kash Patek chugging beer. Good for him and the U.S. Olympic hockey team. This is not women’s figure skating.