Category: Presidential election 2024
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You’ve heard of ear worms
This election year it’s time for brain worms! The dead worm found in Bobby Jr.’s brain is polling higher than Joe Biden in 11 states. So reports America’s most trusted fake news site, Babylon Bee. Blaska Policy Werkes, Madison WI’s most trusted source of bile, orders compost worms delivered to his Experimental Work Farm (and…
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Kristi Noem shoots dogs, doesn’t she?!
And they said Richard Nixon was an attack dog! What would be the fun of politics if it didn’t touch a raw nerve now and again, like Lawrence Olivier drilling for oil inside Dustin Hoffman’s mouth! (“Is it safe?”) Some think Kristi Noem was auditioning for Trump’s vice president when she wrote the requisite political…
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The prosecution theory in Trump’s hush money trial:
Even Anderson Cooper asks: ‘Is it novel, is it pie in the sky?‘ Is it a bird, or a plane? In one comedy skit on classic TV, Steve Allen parodied Superman. Cape flowing thanks to an off-camera fan, the TV pioneer held his hands held straight out (no doubt for aerodynamic purposes) while suspended inches…
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Speaker Mike Johnson for President!
He braved the mob at Columbia U! America needed Washington, cherry tree or not. The Head Groundskeeper needs his heroes, too. Preferably living. Glued to a page in his childhood scrapbook is a photograph of his first crush, Corkie and her dog, White Shadow. Serialized on the Mouseketeers TV program in 1956. (Buddy Ebsen played…
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Normalizing lies is not patriotic
Even Germany confronted its sins. The Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire warned “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” That describes the presumptive nominee of the Republican party — an organization to which this blogger has devoted his allegiance these past 34 years. Would that the tranch of resolutions submitted to the…
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Tuesday’s elections offer a lesson
We just don’t know what it is! What can we learn from Tuesday’s election results here in Dane County and throughout Wisconsin? We can’t say because Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, is still grinding its gears. We know that voters did approve the two state constitutional amendments banning private money and personnel in the…