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Are taxpayers being ripped off?
Is not yet available; stay tuned!
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R.I.P. David Blaska (some day)
May God have mercy on this blog. Can’t explain it but as the Squire ages more funerals seem to populate his calendar. We take Yogi Berra’s guidance: if we don’t go to their funerals they won’t come to ours. Got us obsessing about Life’s Last Picture Show. Impressed by the turnout at Dennis O’Loughlin’s visitation…
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A buyer’s market for nonsense
What explains it? In our more cynical moments (roughly from 6:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m.), we ascribe ulterior motives to Jake Tapper for co-authoring the book about the Democrat(ic) party’s cover-up of Joe Biden’s disabling senescence. (But it’s a great read!) Journalism heretic Bari Weiss pinned the tail on the donkey: “How did ordinary citizens…
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Was ever a worse hero than George Floyd?
5 years later, can we all breathe now? Sunday was the five-year anniversary of the termination of George Floyd’s squandered life. Like those burrowing tree cicadas, five-year anniversaries cause professional scribblers to rub their legs together and attempt profundity. They’re programmed that way. CNN went up with “George Floyd legacy: How loved ones remember George…
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WI GOP looking for someone to make the peace
‘How did things ever get this far?’ Third of three — at last! We’ve been monitoring the rumblings among the deepening factions of the Wisconsin Republican party with morbid fascination. Yes, it is a party in transition — reinvigorated by the Tea Party 15 years ago, broadened by Trump 10 years ago. Republicans snatched working…
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Vere, Franciscus mortus est
Quick thoughts from Madison WI’s worst Catholic. Pope Francis has died, just a day after showing himself to the Easter celebrants at the Vatican; just a day after meeting with Vice President J.D. Vance. The deeper recesses of the A.O.C caucus will infer Republican skullduggery against the liberal Pope. (If that was trite and needlessly…