Category: Progressives
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Why won’t Dave Cieslewicz sign the recall petition?
Courage, man! Dave Cieslewicz (pronounced exactly as spelled) has all the vowels (and more than enough consonants) but cannot seem to solve the puzzle. To date, Dave is the only Madison personage with liberal bona fides who has called out the chaos. But the former mayor says he won’t put his name to the Mayor…
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An evening downtown, canceled
Is that a bullhorn in my soup? A friend relates this adventure in downtown Madison Wednesday 07-15-2020: For our anniversary, me, the wife, and two friends decided to celebrate downtown at [a restaurant]. After arriving by Uber, we were greeted by “non-violent” protesters. We had told the driver to stand by, in case we decided to…
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UW-Madison is training ‘co-conspirators’ to fight ‘white supremacy’
S.O.S. Tommy Thompson! If University of Wisconsin students are more ‘woke’ than the habitués of an all-night coffee house, it is because they have been trained in race warfare. It is not happenstance that State Street is boarded up from Bascom Hill to the State Capitol. Now UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is mandating “cultural competency”…
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This hoax is for progressive folks
A sucker is born every minute The Werkes continues to marvel how my old boss at The Capital Times, editor emeritus Dave Zweifel, could have grown up on the farm (outside New Glarus WI) and gone so wrong. Dave still follows the progressive line long after the La Follettes left the parade grounds. He now…
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Quotes from the battlefront #2
Progressives say the darnedest things! A followup to Part #1 “Just give us some free food and beer and we can end this now. You don’t want 600 people to come here and destroy your business and burn it down. The cops are on our side. You notice that when you call them, nothing happens…