Category: The Culture
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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,…
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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…
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Stop the presses
The future is digital. We’re holding the Monday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal in our ink-stained fingers. Starting next month, we’ll have to get our Packer fix on-line, for the October 27 issue of Madison’s only daily newspaper will be the last committed to printed paper on a Monday. More days will follow, it…
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It won’t sell in Rockford
How Democrats lost the working class. The party of More Free Stuff may have shut down the federal government but Blaska’s Policy Werkes will soldier on even if, like those generals summoned to the Hegseth/Trump endurance test, we sit on our hands, stone-faced and cold sober. Paul Fanlund visited his hometown of Rockford IL so…
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It IS the culture, stupid!
‘The stuff that cannot be quantified’ After she defeated Blaska for Madison school board, Ali Muldrow invited your scribbler to her talk show on WORT-FM. Like any good progressive, the host Defunded the Police and sponsored race-based outcomes. The station itself sometimes resembles Radio Free Hamas. Ms. Muldrow’s first question: “Are you carrying?” (“You don’t…