Category: Coronavirus
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Thank you, all-powerful teachers union!
Now get your shine box! My journalism alma mater, The Capital Times, flatters itself that it speaks truth to power, that hoary old cliché. We’ll believe it when they stop kowtowing (beautiful word) to the all-powerful teachers union, Madison Teachers Inc. The Emerald City’s public schools remain shuttered for classroom learning late this February 2021…
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Get the Covid-19 vaccine out to anyone with an arm
Even if it has to go to a hedge fund manager The gray labcoats here at Blaska Policy Werkes believe in science as much as any good Madison liberal with a yard sign out front. We’re just not certain what science to believe. We doubt, for instance, whether converting all of GM’s vehicles to electric is…
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Reopen Madison schools, the teachers union be damned
Who runs our public schools, anyway? Our favorite Madison morning daily newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal, wants our public schools open for in-classroom teaching (and, often, learning). So do the kids. So do their parents. What’s the hold-up? The teachers union, of course. It is always the teachers union. In sticking their nose above the foxhole…
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We never thought it was such a bad little tree
“… It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.” — Linus. But you can tell it was decorated by guys. Plain as a processed cheese and butter sandwich. But what a statement! Hooray for State Reps. Paul Tittle and Shae Sortwell — good Wisconsin Republicans — for putting up a Christmas tree…
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We’re gathering indoors to give thanks
Mass or otherwise! The devil struggling for the remnants of Blaska’s soul is proposing that the irascible bloggeur assemble a small fleet of automobiles, pick-up trucks, bicycles, and tour buses. The vehicles will be parked in the driveway, on the front lawn, and on the street out front come next Thursday, Thanksgiving day. Only to…
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It’s o.k. to use the C-word profanity if you are progressive
The hoary ‘speaking truth to power’ cliché “Please note that the corrupt, crooked, c***s at The Tavern League do not represent the interests of all bars and restaurants.” — Francesca Hong, Democrat(ic) candidate for State Assembly, Madison WI. No enemies on the Left — What did we say? In September, The Capital Times demanded the Common…