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A little tough talk, in plain English
Give war a chance. Blaska has offered the Wisconsin State Journal, our favorite Madison morning daily newspaper (except for Mondays), his unique and under-appreciated talents to write an opinion column. Awaiting a response from whoever is its current editor. (They come and they go more frequently than Peruvian presidents.) If our price ($500 a pop) is too rich for your blood, make a counter-offer. As Jerry Lundegaard said in Fargo, “I’m working with ya on this thing here.” It could be our prose is too (how shall we say) “vivid” for the timorous. Blaska admits a stylistic debt to…
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UW-Madison invited a Republican!
O.K., he wasn’t exactly MAGA. Father was driving up East Washington Avenue while the little kid in back thought he would explode as the imposing State Capitol loomed ever larger through the windshield like a vision from the Wizard of Oz. How great must be this thing called “Gummint!” If Wisconsin were to build its state capitol today, from scratch, what would it look like? Doubtful anyone would attempt the inspiring Beaux Arts monument to democracy, built between 1903 and 1917. Hellz bellz, even the Catholic churches built these days are light on statutes, glittering mosaics and soaring arches. Where’s…
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Death was big news in small towns
‘The call of the Grim Reaper has again been heard in our midst‘ The Lovely Lisa is lobbying this scribbler to compose his obituary. Was it something we said? Our interest piqued, we plunged into the Sun Prairie Historical Society’s archive of obituaries, a great source of history. Struck by the attention paid to manner of death. Obituaries one hundred and more years ago were not paid but reported as legitimate news stories — especially so in a village of 938 people, the village’s head count in the year 1900. (Sun Prairie’s population today: 39,419!) Cannot improve on this lede,…
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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 didn’t mind the Spanish; Jose Feliciano was pretty big in his day. Clicked over to Turning Point USA — the MAGA approved alternative — but the flashing lights and frantic calisthenics only worsened our cardiac arrhythmia, already redlining due to the football game itself…
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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 video was deleted late Friday morning, after the White House initially defended it, following calls from lawmakers of both parties to remove it. The roughly one-minute video, which was posted on Truth Social at 11:44 p.m. on Thursday, features a narrator questioning the security…
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Anyone else think next we see Nancy Guthrie, she’ll be wearing a beret and holding an AR-15 in a bank hold-up?