Category: Progressives

  • Sun Prairie volunteers are what make a community

    “The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. From what I remember of my grandfather J.M., he was pretty irascible, strange as that may seem. So it is believable that, some time in the late 1920s, working in his…

  • Defending the UW-Madison against the barbarians at the gate

    This post has been hacked by a UW-System prof (retired) who is holding the fort against the barbarians at the gate, quivering with righteous indignation. By Gary L. Kriewald “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting…

  • Trust us, we’re professionally trained journalists

    “Unbiased news does not exist.” The editor of Your Progressive Voice (the corporation that speaks as if it were a person) is up today with a plea to “main street Republicans”  This, alone, is progress of a sort. Usually The Capital Times stereotypes Republicans as either martini-sipping country club types or illiterate inbred Klansmen.  …

  • Blocking traffic — and jobs — feels like progress to liberals

    [ UPDATE: “The shooter’s identity had not even been released when many prominent voices on the left began blaming Trump for the attack.” — National Review. As long as we’re talking about “predictable.” ] Did that Annapolis newspaper forget to post its ‘No Firearms’ signs? It’s as predictable as the clenched fist on the pages…

  • After Anthony Kennedy, we are about to find out how bad it will get

    Chased out of the Red Hen? Just the opening salvo May have been in the New Yorker, a cartoon depicting a highway with the road sign reading “Schadenfreude Next 20 Miles.” This has been a very good week for the Great Rightwing Conspiracy and assorted Deplorables. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered three grand slam decisions topped…

  • The Soup Nazis are banging their spoons

    Everyone they don’t like is Hitler There is a social media meme that holds that everyone you don’t like is Hitler. We’re at that point in hyperbole U.S.A.  Maybe Trump did start it. Mocking Carly Fiorina’s appearance and the disabled reporter soured me on the man, big time. But he is a disrupter and his trade…