Tag: Chamberlin Rock
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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…
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Rebecca Blank is the chancellor of cancel culture
She winnows but does not sift. We bear no ill will toward Northwestern University, the only private institution among the 14 schools of higher education that comprise the Big Ten athletic conference. (We were told there would be no math.) Don’t blame us for Rebecca Blank, Mildcats. Blank is moving on from chancellor of the…
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Make this the Best Years of Their Lives
Our plea to Tommy Thompson on behalf of university students everywhere! Dear Governor, Mr. Cabinet Secretary, UW System President, My Old Boss: Restrained, moderate Blaska sez: I have some appreciation for the separation of powers at our great university system. Don’t know that you have to go all S.I. Hayakawa about this but get your chancellors…
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It was a rock (for gawdsakes)!
No books or poetry could protect it. Twelve thousand years ago, a melting glacier deposited a boulder between two lakes it created during last continental ice age. On 08-06-21, the University of Wisconsin loaded that 42-ton rock on a flatbed truck because a smattering of grievance studies students demanded it. Why? Because someone in 1925…
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Madison is electing Republicans
The city spooks the rest of the state A homeowner here on the west side of Madison WI is one up on his fellow progressives. Not content with the usual yard sign, a home in the affluent Greentree neighborhood lights up “Black Lives Matter” from the front window in neon electric lights! (Puts our Blatz beer…
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Removing the rock of faux outrages
Until the next unreasonable demand. Is it just me? Is Blaska the outlier? Is your irascible bloggeur the only one in high dudgeon today? (Wouldn’t be the first time.) Anyone else think the removal of a glacial erratic boulder from the campus of the University of Wisconsin is the most stupid, egregious display of Woke…