Category: The Culture
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Sacrilegious, blasphemous, and just bad politics
Donald Trump, heal thyself! At the Big Bang of Beatlemania, an awed John Lennon remarked “We’re more popular than Jesus.” For certain, the Fab Four sold more vinyl than the Messiah but they did not have mid-term elections to worry about like Donald Trump. As the most self-destructive president since Richard Nixon, this may be…
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Have our politics become deadly?
or just an excuse for hate? The former downtown Madison hotel employee accused of killing her co-worker in a parking ramp on W. Washington Ave. Sunday 03-22-26 blamed that co-worker for getting her fired. That, if one may speculate on a live criminal case (and what is to stop us!) appears to be the primary…
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Death was big news in small towns
‘The call of the Grim Reaper has again been heard in our midst‘ The Lovely Lisa is lobbying this scribbler to compose his obituary. Was it something we said? Our interest piqued, we plunged into the Sun Prairie Historical Society’s archive of obituaries, a great source of history. Struck by the attention paid to manner…
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It’s half time at the culture wars
The football was more relaxing. We turned off Bad Bunny about one minute into his Super Bowl halftime show Sunday. The indentured servants were among over one in five who did so, we read. Wasn’t the politics. We just didn’t need to see female fannies wagging in our faces, or so the Missus ruled. We…
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Keeping an uncivil tongue
When others go low, he goes for the family jewels. President Trump says he is bypassing this year’s Super Bowl being played on the West Coast — too far to go, says the man on Air Force One. A shame because even violent sports like football demand fair play. The Seattle Seahawks likely will start Tariq…
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All things come to those who wait
Practicing the virtues of benign neglect. Now it transpires that we should leave the leaves (English is a wondrous language!) on the lawn. Beneficial to over-wintering bugs, apparently. Which is fortuitous because this Head Groundskeeper had no intention of turning over a new leaf this fall. We’ll deal with next Spring when it gets here,…