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It’s half time at the culture wars
The football was more relaxing. We turned off Bad Bunny about one minute into his Super Bowl halftime show Sunday. The indentured servants were among over one in five who did so, we read. Wasn’t the politics. We just didn’t need to see female fannies wagging in our faces, or so the Missus ruled. We
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He’s testing us, isn’t he?!
Probing for our gag reflex? Sen. Tim Scott calls it ‘the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’ WASHINGTON 02-07-26 —President Trump posted — and later deleted — a video on-line that included imagery depicting former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, prompting swift condemnation from Democrats and Republicans. The
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Signs of the times
We believe we are royally screwed. In a few weeks political yard signs will sprout like dandelions on a No Mow lawn in progressive Madison — alongside the ubiquitous “In This House We Believe …” signs. (Notice? God is never among the listed.) Candidates who take Blaska’s advice do so at their own peril but
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Redefining failure & waste
WI employers can’t find literate workers! Republicans in the state legislature are rightly holding up $1 million in funding for Jill Underly’s WI Department of Public Instruction after learning the state agency spent $368,885 to rent a Wisconsin Dells vacation spa for four days in June 2024. That is where DPI convened 88 “expert” educators,
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No president should run elections
They already have too much power. Excuse us, Mr. President. Hate to correct you in front of the cameras here in the Oval Office. You just said “states are agents of the federal government.” No, Mr. President, they are not. In these United States, states have sovereignty over their spheres of influence. The Tenth Amendment
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Showing you on the dolly
where Mr. T is hurting real Republicans! Blaska has been asked to show on the little dolly where the mean man hurt him. We expected blowback after the last thrilling episode (“Keeping an uncivil tongue”). Poke the MAGA nest and expect frenzied stinging from reverse Trump Derangement Sufferers. We answered platinum subscriber “Madison expat” with



