Category: Race
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The science is settled (again)!
Until it isn’t. We were told the science was settled. (And that we could play our radio at a reasonable volume.) • The U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that Covid-19 probably did, after all, originate at a Chinese lab in Wuhan. Wooo hooo! • After reviewing 65 studies, The Lancet medical journal concludes that…
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Police respond to more fights at East high school
Race of the combatants not important — until they’re penalized! Can you find what is missing from principal Skinner’s Smith’s account to parents? What we know and what we do not O.K., class, what is missing? You there, waving your hand frantically. That’s right, the race of the fighting students! White, black, latino, oriental, indigenous…
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Speaking of knowing how to lose …
This blogge surfaced on Hunter’s laptop! Speaking of blowing an election, WI Supreme Court justice candidate Dan Kelly says he won’t endorse or support fellow conservative Jennifer Dorow in the April general election should she win the primary election February 21. Isn’t that how we ceded the governor’s mansion to Tony Evers? Do Republicans know…
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We dared speak out against the Madison consensus
In anno domini 2022! Honest to Smack, we were going to list our most-read blogges of this expiring year when, in a sure sign of senility, we erased the draft. Now we find that a certain former Madison mayor has posted the same concept at his roadside stand. Lo (and behold!), his top-rated blog for…
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The case against Madison racial reparations
We gave at the office! The history of reparations is mostly open sores and weeping blisters. France wanted reparations — deep and punishing — from the Kaiser’s Germany. Fueled Hitler’s rise to power. President Reagan approved paying $20,000 to Japanese-Americans herded into camps during WW2 but bupkis for their descendants. Nine states have apologized —…
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Can Jeffrey Copeland reform Madison public schools?
Can his case defeat the cancel culture? THIS JUST IN AT 7:25 P.M.: After two hours in closed session, the Madison Board of Education restored Jeffrey Copeland’s job BUT with a reprimand and three weeks lost pay and “undergo professional development.” A travesty! We hope Madison public schools still teach George Orwell’s dystopic novel Nineteen…