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Good thing the two weren’t Republican!
Progressivism has its privileges. Brother Mike was working the farm one morning when he got a call from The Capital Times. A supervisor, a member of his conservative caucus, had been slurring his words at a county government meeting the night before, the news reporter related. Might have been drunk. What are you going to do about it? Mike was chairman of the Dane County Board of Supervisors at the time but at that particular moment was attempting to wrest some income from the indifferent soil of rural Sun Prairie. The reporter for the progressive newspaper expressed dissatisfaction with…
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America can feel good about itself again
and quit the party of angry! Here is why Republicans will win the mid-terms, even here in increasingly blue Wisconsin. We’re optimists, they’re not. Democrats scold you for not checking your guilty white privilege at the door of this stolen land. Maybe progressives don’t live in a world where everyone is a victim of your selfish success, but they’re working on it. We cannot encounter Elizabeth Warren without picturing Nurse Ratched sexually shaming poor Billy Bibbit in the Cuckoos Nest. Ilhan Omar flees Somalia to lecture America about how screwed up we are. Zohran Mamdani wants us to feel…
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They must be crazy
Democrats can’t stand up for America. President Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night got off to an auspicious start when, just a few minutes in, sergeants at arms (they were not masked) hustled the noisome Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and his gilded cane out of the chambers. Did not attend a GOP watch party but guessing some of the kibitzers commented, “That’s a start.” (Green held sign saying “Black people are not apes.” Well, Trump did ask for it.) A goodly number of Democrat(ic) lawmakers chose to go AWOL and held their own event. Reminded the indentured servants…
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Who’s watching?
Trump’s State of the Union address tonight? This gracelessly aging bloggeur lights a small votive (and fruit fly repellant) candle to give thanks that we have not been elected to the speaker of any house, be it the WI State Assembly or the U.S. House of Representatives (or the Stately Manor when the Lovely Lisa is in residence). Not that we have been asked. A requirement of the position, it appears, is to sit high upon the dais behind the governor or president whilst the chief executive reads his State of the State address, as Tony Evers did last week,…
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Our politics is more stupid than …
“An eye for an eye makes both people blind.” — Sen. John Neely Kennedy, R-Louisiana. The indentured servants run to the flickering b&w Philco like it is spitting casino coins whenever is heard the honeyed tones of Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. (We watch more C-Span these days because we like our Metamucil straight from the cow.) You can smell the corn meal frying in the lard when Senator Kennedy speaks. He’s today’s Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and Bill Maher but with committee chairmanships. Senator Kennedy is out with a book — the title alone demands its New York Times…



