Category: Progressives

  • No safe space for reformers at a Madison middle school?

    “Teachers are very very afraid.” — former teacher* Parents are mobilizing for a showdown at Madison’s Jefferson middle school, which they describe as ruled by virtue-signaling administrators and out-of-control students. The flash point was on December 3 when a 13-year-old boy shot a girl with a BB gun outside from a bus window. The student had remained…

  • Hollywood smugness gets its comeuppance

    Was Robert deNiro amused? And the winner for Courage in the Face of Liberal Arrogance award goes to … All hail Ricky Gervais! The British comedian did what the American Left only prattles about but never practices: he afflicted the comfortable and spoke truth to power. That being, of course, America’s multi-billion dollar entertainment industry.…

  • Brenda Konkel demands: Stop reporting crime news!

    Marginalize the police, cover up crime reports, pretend your Leftist politics aren’t to blame Yeah, that’s the ticket! When late-19th Century muckraking cartoonist Thomas Nast exposed the crooked dealings of the Tammany Hall machine, Boss Tweed cried, “Stop them damn pictures.” Brenda Konkel, co-chair of Madison WI’s far-left Progressive Dane political party, has updated that demand.  Stop…

  • British liberal reaction mirrors American Left

    The Babylon Bee reports, you decide: How veddy, veddy Deplorable! The indispensable Titania McGrath — a conservative pranking the left — reports from the United Kingdom in the aftermath of Boris Johnson’s beat-down of Labour: ‘Not one shred of humanity’ (!!!) Cry “racism,” of course! Statement of the Democratic Socialists of America, which endorsed Bernie Sanders and…

  • Pardon us all to hell but we’re giving thanks this Thanksgiving! 

    Here’s your ‘vicious reality’ —  The Old Guy gets the drumstick! It’s a quiet Thanksgiving here at Stately Blaska Manor. The indentured servants have been given the afternoon off, with the promise of leftovers when they return tomorrow morning, before dawn. A row of white lab coats hang neatly from their hooks, policies half-finished. The unlettered field…

  • Our schools are teaching guilt and victimhood, not responsibility

    No thanks on Thanksgiving? The white lab coats at Blaska Policy Werkes, the indentured servants at the Stately Manor, and the unlettered field hands at the Experimental Work Farm (and Penal Colony) wish you a rewarding Thanksgiving. Have an extra serving of green bean/mushroom soup casserole on us! Topped with packaged onion rings, of course!…