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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
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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,



