Category: cancel culture
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Spring time in Madison, the fragile flowers are in bloom
The equity majors are in high dudgeon! Studying — some of them, anyway — at the great University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are 44,640 students. Of those, 9,824 are graduate students, 37.9% from out of state, 8.4% foreign, 65% White, 13.3% “International,” 7.1% Asian, 6.1% Hispanic, 3.4% two or more races, 2.2% black or African American,…
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America paralyzed by writers’ strike?
There’s enough good stuff that we missed! We get the impression that John Nichols and his comrades at The Nation (we really do love you, John!) won’t be satisfied until the world goes on strike for higher wages, better living conditions, and an end to that climate changie thing. If anyone should go on strike,…
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It’s DEI or die! for campus free speech
Worse than the Joe McCarthy era! What did that Stanford University administrator do when asked to restore order as law students disrupted an invited speaker? Instead of quelling the mob, she asked the speaker, a federal judge, “whether the juice was worth the squeeze”? I.E., do you really have to give your speech? Is anyone…
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Where is the opinion page for Madison conservatives?
“You are welcome to my opinion.” — William F. Buckley Scrubbing the floors on hands and knees, the indentured servants here at Stately Blaska Manor sang “Praise the Lord” as we read them Friday’s editorial in the Wisconsin State Journal. Madison WI’s favorite morning daily newspaper has lobbed a juicy spitball at a worthy target:…
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Trump takes more lumps in Wisconsin nice
In Tuesday’s primary election. The Blaska Policy Werkes decision desk was right on the money predicting Tr•mp-endorsed election denier Janel Brandtjen would lose big to Speaker Robin Vos’s man for state senate in suburban Milwaukee. We had it at Dan Knodl 60%, Brandtjen 30%, Van Mobley 10%. Final score was 57% to 28% to 15%. Must…
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Are you offended?
Better yet, have you offended? Remember Piss Christ, the object d’ art of a crucifix dipped in a jar of urine 35 years ago? How the rubes and Babbits howled! The chattering classes scolded: Isn’t art supposed to discomfit the comfortable? Except that “artist” used taxpayer money to finance his offensive speech. By contrast, the Stockholm firebug…