Category: Humor
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Happy January 6!
Has it really been 3 years? (!!!) Dane County employees get 11 paid holidays. Although the national average of paid holidays is 7.6, the progressives who run greater Madison WI aren’t satisfied. The county is considering creating the second Monday in October as a paid, work-free “Indigenous Peoples Day.” If it comes to pass, we’re going…
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Predictions from a troubled mind — July to December 2024
The future is not what it’s cracked up to be! Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, is up on the hoist for a transmission rebuild, forcing the faceless bureaucrats to improvise this year’s fearless prognostications. Bad to worse, someone dropped the Magic 8 Ball©, smashing it to smithereens. Scrambling to meet a deadline, we found…
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Predictions from a troubled mind, January to June 2024
featuring everyone’s favorite computer, Ol’ Sparky! We gave Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, an Arthur Fonzarelli kick in the hard drive to startle it to life, then queried the clattering contraption what might we see in the new year, 2024. The vacuum tubes fairly twinkled with delight as a Zager and Evans soundtrack (“In the…
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All I want for Christmas
Is a good stiff drink! And another thing, a ring. Today is the shortest day of the year. We’re simpatico with the Eb Scrooge that was still limiting Bob Cratchit to a single lump of fossil fuel. Maybe we’re beaten down by a presidential choice that no one seems to want. One is senescent and…
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‘Twas the week before the 25th …
No refunds given for this blogge! Tom Still (Gawd how we miss his voice on the WI State Journal editorial page) is right about diversity, equity, and inclusion at the UW. The non-normative, intersectional, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ fat lady, he writes, is only clearing her throat. The “standoff between the UW and the Legislature over DEI and…
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Our red baseball cap just got valuable!
Thank you Alvin Bragg, Stormy, and #45! Bathed in low-UV light in an honored place in the Museum of Curios and Oddities here at Stately Blaska Manor is a red baseball cap that reads, “Make America Horny Again.” It’s a takeoff on the MAGA caps popularized by a once and possibly future President of the…