Blaska Policy Werkes

Heaven forfend anyone criticizing the University of Wisconsin’s flagship Madison campus. To cross that Rubicon is to brand oneself as a philistine, a rube —Vandals at the gates, Trump voters. The knee-jerk reaction from our … acquaintances is to defend the Leninist re-education camps our college campuses have become with high-minded prattle. Instead of encouraging intellectual inquiry they demand stifling conformity. Their particular sciences are settled. Their wisdom is received, not discovered. If you don’t get “The Problem of Whiteness,” then you are suffering from implicit bias. You are exercising your white privilege. You are engaging in hate speech. Get…

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Imagine that four white punks had tortured a disabled black kid and F-bombed Barack Obama for public amusement. There would be an desperate run on storefront plywood in Chicago. Sturm und drang from MSNBC. Turgid tsk-tsking from The Nation’s stable of socialists. Don Lemon extra Red Bull nasty. The victim invited to the White House. Inconveniently for the identity politics industry, the victim was white and the perps (most of them) proud of their depravity. The nation’s race baiter in chief offered his typical Mike Dukakis, non-judgmental sangfroid:  “What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time,”…

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Did Julian Assange, the Russians or the WWE hack the presidential election? Not according to a social media friend, who has come forward to claim full responsibility. “I did it,” he says. “I elected Donald Trump. I voted for him.” Glad that is cleared up. The point is, not a single voting booth in America was hacked. To think that “Wisconsin’s highly decentralized and secure elections infrastructure [could be] vulnerable to the kind of meddling that might overturn the will of the voters … is a fantasy,” says the Dane County Clerk, a Democrat. He was aiming his ire at Green Party…

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Here is the plan: Mark this date: Tuesday, February 7 (a date that will live … in infamy!) That is when Squire will be driven through the protective gates of the Stately Manor, his gracious abode, to the Temple of Mammon, aka: the City-County Building in downtown Madison. He is scheduled to arrive minutes before the 6:30 p.m. convening of the Madison Common Council. He arrives early in order to — quill pen in hand — fill out the multifarious forms the City of Madison requires of its citizens before being allowed their paltry three minutes of First Amendment…

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So far, 2017 has been a good year. Except for the Big Fourteen football conference. The Badgers kept up their end of the bargain by schooling the West Northeastern Michigan Community College Tadpoles, as predicted. Good golly, Troy Fumagalli!  But Ohio State bombed worse than Mariah Carey on New Year’s Eve. Michigan, Nebraska, Indiana, Maryland, and Iowa lost. Add Penn State to the loss column a Rose Bowl shootout that had everything, including a great performance by QB Trace McSorley. But Southern Cal’s Sam Darnold was even more magnificent for Southern Cal in an incredible 52-49 victory. Thank you, Northwestern Wildcats and…

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And Keith Richards is still alive. Not human, but still alive. The indentured servants, pitchforks hoisted, have taken over Stately Blaska Manor and commandeered its bank of hi-def televisions in the pursuit of vicarious glory by watching highly skilled athletes batter themselves senseless. No, not politics — football! The servants’ simple but non-negotiable demand is that the Big Fourteen football conference redress the shame of Friday’s bowls, even if they must root today for Ohio State to beat a team coached by a man named Dab ‘o Swine-meat. We fired up Old Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer to predict…

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