Calvin & Hobbes

Category: cancel culture

  • Buckley led the revolution against Big Gummint

    that financed Tampon Tim’s ‘Learing Centers’ We’re trying to get our book club to read a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., who died 18 years ago this February 27 at the age of 82. The text of the book consumes 868 pages — too few, in this hero worshipper’s opinion. But the tome’s girth…

  • Brave voices are stirring

    But courage is needed. It is only a small generalization to say that elected government in Madison and surrounding Dane County wallows in guilt, apologizes for success, cultivates grievance, and celebrates victimhood. Now Mayor Satya wants to fly the Ho Chunk flag at city hall at equal height with the U.S. flag. The stolen land…

  • 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…

  • Woke just got canceled in prime time

    Routing of the culture police to follow! The biggest news story of the day: Bari Weiss is hiring on to run CBS News.  Reason magazine, libertarian in its politics, summed it up: “Bari Weiss Has Won the War on Wokeness in Media.” It’s that big. Ms. Weiss co-founded an on-line publication called “The Free Press”…

  • Who’s sorry now?

    Was that an apology, Jimmy? Jimmy Kimmel apologized, sort of. It’s the kind of apology cynical politicians  issue after an open microphone catches them saying the quiet part out loud. Sorry if anyone was offended. Sure as heckfire wasn’t Brenda Lee. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”…

  • New breed of speech police are braying

    Watch what you post! A case could be made that canceling Jimmy Kimmel was a network TV business decision. By taunting conservatives night after night, “Jimmy Kimmel was canceling himself,” columnist Kimberley Strassel observes, “until [Trump’s FCC chairman] crashed into the scene.” Thus emboldened, newly triggered Republicans are forming ad hoc ministries of truth. Like…