Category: Free speech
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Keeping an uncivil tongue
When others go low, he goes for the family jewels. President Trump says he is bypassing this year’s Super Bowl being played on the West Coast — too far to go, says the man on Air Force One. A shame because even violent sports like football demand fair play. The Seattle Seahawks likely will start Tariq…
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Look out for journalists
Sometimes they take the law into their own hands! At the age of 7, Blaska became the editor and publisher of The Blaskie Paper, the leading journal of BugTown. A map of the imaginary country resembled the platbook’s rectangular delineation of our farm east of Sun Prairie WI. The publication took its name from the…
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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.”…
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Anything good on TV tonight?
Cancel yer own damn self! Would someone please put this blog on hiatus? Wouldn’t mind the time off (Blaska is a slave-driver). More importantly, we could use the big bump in numbers Jimmy Kimmel will get tonight. They’ll have to take a nuclear energy plant out of mothballs just to feed Nielsen’s audience meters. A…
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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…
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No one is laughing, Jimmy Kimmel
Charlie Kirk’s Great Sorting Out. Aside from part-time jobs at the porcelain factory in Sun Prairie and an iron foundry in Oshkosh, Blaska made his living (such as it was) on the back of the First Amendment. So it was disheartening to hear this morning my old friend Mizz Vicki barking over the AM airwaves…