Category: Progressives

  • Progressives banished our butter maiden

    Keep your identity politics off my plate! Another insensitive American tradition, trashed Any good conservative blogge (and the one you are reading is good to the last drop) is hair-triggered to express outrage at the merest hint of touchy feely. (Looking at you, Joe Biden). Put another way, we were surreptitiously reading Mad magazine (R.I.P.…

  • Hollywood depicts battle for Wisconsin Deplorables

    Hearts, if not minds To hell with the ‘Soul of America’ Based on the 2 ½-minute trailer, a movie pitting Republicans versus Democrats in battleground Wisconsin 2020 looks like fun. Lead actors Steve Carell and Rose Byrne are master farceurs and the countryside looks verdant.  The movie is titled Irresistible.  We’ll have to wait for its release…

  • Smash patriarchy, pig man!

    Apologize for not supporting Warren. ‘A good amount of crying’ Today’s Capital Times should have been bordered in black. Dane County WI’s “Progressive Voice” is mourning the loss of Elizabeth Warren. “Warren supporters in Madison grieve …” reports one of four articles devoted to the lady’s sputtered-out campaign for president. “… There has been a…

  • ‘Bernie sees the good in murderous tyrants’

    You say you want a revolution … But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow Oh, this is delicious. We are Montgomery Burns, steepling our fingers and cooing, “Excellent!” We loves us our schadenfreude, served cold with a twist of lemon and a dash of…

  • Don’t assume 5 teens running from wrecked car had stolen it!

    Another in an unending series: How Madison progressives think The Policy Werkes presents for your edification this on-line, social-media colloquy between an alarmed citizen and your garden-variety, lily white, Madison WI social-justice scold. Ralph, of the Nakoma neighborhood: Don’t think it cannot happen in your neighborhood and someone will not get injured or killed. Yesterday…

  • Madison’s war on police on tonight’s agenda

    It’s all over but the shouting. The Madison Common Council is poised tonight (01-21-2020) to endorse the 180-page (!!!) report of its Police Policy & Procedure Review ad hoc committee. (The Council agenda here.) That committee began picking nits three-plus years ago after the City hired an outside boutique to study Madison police, which in…