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Boiling 13 ways to deter police shootings down to one
Are we clear? Featured on the front page of the opinion section of Madison’s favorite Sunday newspaper, Gerald and Merle Sternberg put a lot of thought into devising “13 ways to deter police shootings” in the wake of Corey Ruiz’ shooting death. Too much thought. The Sternbergs’ third point suggests the tone: 3) If use…
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Expel Madison schools’ Behavior Education Plan
Start over with a clean sheet. Blaska said it in 2019 when we ran for Madison school board. The district’s Behavior Education Plan — then in its fifth year — wasn’t working. Would they listen? No-OOOO! Surprise surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say. The Behavior Education Plan (BEP) STILL isn’t working! Its failure is…
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Tom Tiffany should put the rock back on campus
And absolve Chamberlin Rock of racism! Whaddaya think of this idea: A TV spot that will put Tom Tiffany over the top in November (pending midnight thumb drives in Milwaukee)! Spot opens with my man standing next to the Chamberlin Rock, more massive than the Deep State conspiracy. “Hi, I’m Tom Tiffany. I promise…
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Kaleem Caire is running for mayor of Madison
It’s already a crowded field! “I’m running!” educator Kaleem Caire told The Werkes. “Will announce on September 15 and am inviting everyone who wants to be there for it. … It’s time!” Kaleem founded One City Schools in 2014 as an independent school chartered by the University of Wisconsin Office of Educational Opportunity after the…
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Madison ain’t seen nothing yet!
“History has shown what that can be.” — Madison’s mayor. At some point, the WI Division of Criminal Investigation will release its report on the shooting death of a black man, Corey Ruiz, by a white Madison police officer. Could be today, could be later this year. This state agency will have had weeks to…
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Pray for Madison
Why are Madison’s leaders silent? After taking over Madison’s seat of government over the weekend, guerrillas engaged in the Corey Ruiz intifada are locked and loaded with tendentious questions for Mayor Satya, Police Chief Patterson, and other city managers at tonight’s special (and we think, unprecedented) Council meeting. → It’s live-streamed on the City Channel,…
Blaska Policy Werkes
Hong’s “campaign rally was pure crack for disaffected leftist millennials. The emcee introduced every speech by appealing to “ladies, gentlemen, and friends beyond the binary.” — Helen Lewis in The Atlantic
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Defending Woke
Where else but in The Nation:
“No, Woke 1 Was Not Crazy. AOC and others are laughing off 2020 as a wild, isolated moment. None of that is true.
“You know what I’m talking about: racial awareness training, pronouns, reading books like White Fragility, land acknowledgements. …
Police abolition is the big boogeyman for a lot of the people who see Woke 1 as crazy.”
Why wasn’t it crazy THEN?
After A.O.C. said “Woke 1 was crazy.” Carlos Lozada of the New York Times has “one question for the formerly woke:
“If you can dismiss it so casually now — all the defunding and abolishing, the BIPOC-ing and Latinx-ing, the canceling and decentering and my truthing — how much of it did you truly believe at the time? How much was conviction, how much was a pose, how much was groupthink, how much was fear?
“If you did believe it, jettisoning it now should take something more than a sheepish grin. If you didn’t believe it and yet declared it with such passion, with such pretensions to moral clarity, with such disdain for contrary perspectives, then the least you can do now is acknowledge that dissonance.”
Today’s Laff Riot!
Will Trump’s Canada geese become Donald Ducks?