Meadow at Blaska Experimental Work Farm

Category: Free speech

  • Can’t anyone run a civil meeting in this town?

    Blaska is asking all 20 members of the Madison Common Council and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway the following:   Can you keep order at your own meeting? The Policy Werkes e-mailed this to our elected city leaders yesterday (06-27-19) and copied the news media. We’ll update if anyone bothers to answer: 

  • Got racism? Operators are standing by

    The Whitehorse case is in the District attorney’s lap but Madison schools have already vilified the teacher  Paddling furiously, Madison Metropolitan School District superintendent Jennifer Cheatham intends to start up a hotline for staff, students, and families to report racism, personal slights, micro-aggressions, and onerous homework assignments. It’s yet another panicked reaction following an incident at…

  • District attorney Ozanne tries to excuse mob action, Part #2

    Is viewpoint discrimination (and reverse racial discrimination) at work here? An Open Letter to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne: While maintaining that Madison Police had not referred our complaint to you (See part #1), you made several arguments that reveals your inclination to let slide six months of intimidation and harassment against elected officials…

  • Did Baraboo WI suddenly turn Nazi?

    Congratulations! If you were never young and stupid When Cousin Johan and your Humble Bloggeur were pre-schoolers, we thought it advisable to slather cousin’s basement (and ourselves, as it transpired) in green paint. Aunt Laura was not amused, to put it kindly. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Which is to say young…

  • The more they swarm, the more the school board kowtows to the mob

    Time to file a formal complaint The Madison Board of Education is a public governmental body. As such, it is open to the public to attend. As a public meeting, it is the right of every citizen to record the proceedings as long as it causes no disruption. The news media did not attend Monday…

  • Defending the UW-Madison against the barbarians at the gate

    This post has been hacked by a UW-System prof (retired) who is holding the fort against the barbarians at the gate, quivering with righteous indignation. By Gary L. Kriewald “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting…