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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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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 we do believe in Keep It Simple, Stupid. (Sometimes simple AND stupid!) Resist the urge to cram your life’s story onto a 18” x 24” sign, is our advice. Drivers are distracted enough negotiating Mayor Satya’s express bus lanes. Yard signs for our first campaign…
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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, who signed non-disclosure agreements, as reported by Wisconsin Right Now and Dairyland Sentinel. Their apparent shame is understandable. The purpose of the expensive confab: to redefine what it means for a Wisconsin student to be proficient in reading and math! That redefinition led to rejiggering DPI’s…
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