Category: Progressives
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Quick, more gummint program$!
How progressives think (#249 in a series) Don’t be like Brad! We were discussing the recent drive-by whackings of two young black men in Madison WI. A preening progressive who lives in the prosperous Sauk Creek neighborhood (let’s call him Brad) blamed his culture’s favorite catch-all scapegoat: racism. Blaska countered that every white person in America…
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Real workers don’t want more free stuff
A Labor Day message from one of the few a Democrats who actually get it Former Madison WI mayor Dave Cieslewicz, a registered Democrat, riffs on how his increasingly elitist party denigrates the working man: [Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?] didn’t just miss the point on values; he missed the point…
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Equity ensnares medical training
Physician, heal thyself of your white privilege! Or answer to former Madison Alder Shiva! From: Office of the Dean, School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sent: Monday 08-30-21 Subject: Leadership announcement: Associate Dean for Diversity and Equity Transformation Dear colleagues, I am excited to share news about our school’s next step for diversity…
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Would more free stuff help?
Who will be the chosen ones? It’s coming to a city near you. One that looks very much like Madison WI. A guaranteed income for selected poor folk. Not just any old low-income folk, but BIPOC! (That’s black, indigenous, people of color for the un-Wokeful dead.) Madison is considering a Guaranteed Income Pilot Program. Bitter experience…
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It was a rock (for gawdsakes)!
No books or poetry could protect it. Twelve thousand years ago, a melting glacier deposited a boulder between two lakes it created during last continental ice age. On 08-06-21, the University of Wisconsin loaded that 42-ton rock on a flatbed truck because a smattering of grievance studies students demanded it. Why? Because someone in 1925…