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Tom Still (Gawd how we miss his voice on the WI State Journal editorial page) is right about diversity, equity, and inclusion at the UW. The non-normative, intersectional, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ fat lady, he writes, is only clearing her throat. The “standoff between the UW and the Legislature over DEI and spending might not be over,” he writes. For all the progressive wailing, Robin Vos and Devin LeMahieu should have held out for so much more.
Mr. Still reveals that the Regents were kept abreast of negotiations in almost real time and that their original 9-8 vote against the compromise with the Republican legislators threw system president Jay Roth and Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin under Mayor Satya’s all-electric, rapid transit bus. Deep-pocketed donors were aghast — echoing the distress fat cats at the Ivies are feeling over the Woke takeover of higher education.
Michelle Goldberg asks “What drives progressives to the right?” The New York Times columnist answers her own question: “It’s easy to see what various parts of the Left want to dismantle: capitalism, the carceral state, hetero-patriarchy — much harder to find a realistic conception of what comes next.”
Not that much harder! San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, the border, and our college campuses are streaming the failure of progressivism in living color and high definition.
Not since the late great P.J. O’Rourke scorched the printed page has anyone skewered politics like Kevin D. Williamson this weekend. Out of character, the august Wall Street Journal unleashed his street-sweeper assault on the seemingly inevitable Sophie’s Choice facing presidential voters.
If Trump wins, he’ll try his best to act like some kind of midcentury caudillo, the unholy spawn of Augusto Pinochet and Don Rickles.
— “You asked for it, America!“
Joe Biden, a plagiarist and fabulist first elected to public office 53 years ago … is going to be spending a lot of time this campaign season thinking about his family’s influence-peddling business and the tricky questions related to it, like whether you can deduct hookers as a business expense.
More guilt from the NY Times
Bad enough that global climate change is going to charbroil that mentally ill girl in Sweden, but the New York Times mines fresh new traumas every week. “Demand for cashmere is harming the environment” is this week’s looming catastrophe. (We thought trashy movie director Ed Wood was deceased.) “The goat whose coats become cozy sweaters are denuding Mongolian grasslands,” the newspaper frets.
Last Sunday the Times warned that more trees are growing in Nebraska than once grew in Nebraska, not that anyone will mistake Nebraska for Vilas County — or even Brooklyn. More platinum subscriber bonus efflata:
• You think Mongolia has reason to finger its worry beads? From the Orchard Ridge on-line NextDoor feed: “To the person leaving your poop bag in front of my house …“ Well, you didn’t have a chimney!
• Christmas occurs one week from today, on December 25! Not on December 25th. The joyous holiday is always the 25th of December but not on the 25 of December. Get it?
• Give the antidote to progressive guilt! Blaska Policy Werkes is the perfect lump of sooty coal!
Blaska’s Bottom Line trigger warning: If any grasslands are going to be denuded, it should be Mongolia’s. They’re not a protected class, last we looked.
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