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Ranking the Presidents correctly
Giving Nixon his due! Upon the long-anticipated death of Jimmy Carter, a certain former Madison mayor reflected on the 13 Presidents who served during his lifetime, ranking each. Somehow, this former mayor ranked sleepy Joe Biden’s profligate and dishonest presidency above that of John F. Kennedy and both Bushes. With that sand in his oyster,…
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We believe in Santa Claus, not A-I
In God we trust, all others pay cash! Received word that a package cannot be delivered to Stately Blaska Manor because of an incorrect address. Somehow they have my e-mail address? How does that work? Should we have our credit cards handy? Apple has upgraded Ol’ Sparky’s operating system with artificial intelligence. Did not ask…
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Chuse disruption!
Nun of the above for House speaker! It is an oddity of that perplexing, little-read document, the U.S. Constitution. A concept stranger than the Electoral College: that the U.S. House of Representatives “shall chuse their Speaker” and s/he need not be a member! This is the Groucho Marx proviso — not deigning to belong to…
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Good for Shon Barnes
Who might succeed him? Can’t blame Madison’s police chief for wanting to further his career, which he’ll do as police chief in Seattle WA. Has his work cut out for him. Donald Trump wanted to send troops to Seattle to restore order after progressive hooligans took over Capitol Hill and declared it a police-free occupied…
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One more thing to keep us up at night!
Beware of supersonic paint chips! The Cuban missile crisis gave a certain farm boy nightmares of a mushroom cloud rising into the sky behind the sileage silos to the southwest, in the general direction of Madison WI. Now The Werkes learns that Russia has launched 1,240 miles above planet Earth a satellite named Cosmos 2553.…
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Her partisanship posts no mortem
State Rep. Snodgrass compiles a ‘fraught legacy’ Political essayist Michael Kinsley observed that a gaffe is when a politician unintentionally utters what s/he really thinks. We give you State Rep. Lee Snodgrass, Democrat out of Appleton WI. At the death 12-01-24 of David Prosser, retired WI Supreme Court justice and former WI Assembly Speaker, rather…