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Saluting Col. Tim Donovan
I had worked with Lt. Col. Tim Donovan while writing speeches for Gov. Tommy Thompson in 1998. Thank God for Colonel Tim, I didn’t have to write TGT’s military speeches. Tim was the master. Tim Donovan was an excellent writer and a stand-up guy. He coordinated several of the gubernatorial swearing-in ceremonies. Always friendly colleagues,…
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Madison’s anti-Trump militants are ‘Beyond marching’
Madison police, Dane County Sheriff’s Department, UW and Capitol Police — red alert. Be prepared to cancel leave at a moment’s notice. The Donald Trump resistance is going to get ugly. Madison’s radical left is “Moving beyond marching,” according to its mouthpiece, The Capital Times. It is a timely article, given the 75,000 who marched…
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No work, no eat
It is good to see Tommy Thompson on stage again, as he was Monday with Gov. Walker to roll out a new welfare reform. The two governors propose that food stamp recipients must work at least 80 hours a month. Works for me. Government welfare payments to able-bodied adults has corroded generations, turning independent citizens…
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Packers beat Falcons, go to Super Bowl
The indentured servants here at the Manor are in a funk today. Had to brew my own coffee. The unlettered field hands are making menacing motions with their pitchforks. Ol’ Sparky, the Eisenhower-era mainframe, isn’t sparking. The machine had, after all, predicted a Packer victory Sunday. Ergo, the results you thought you saw on the…
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The science is settled, except when it isn’t
Enjoy debating issues and ideas so much that it has to be my favorite recreation. So I was surprised when former mayor Dave Cieslewicz unleashed a short string of profanities last week when Your Squire expressed agnosticism on the human contribution to “global climate change.” Fortunately, Mitch Henck’s show is now exclusively on-line so it…
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The Trump resistance yearns for a post-democratic Leftist Caliphate
Random thoughts on the day after the day before. America loves pomp and circumstance almost as much as the British. We don’t have a monarch to carry us through changes in government so military bands, Stars and Stripes Forever, a hand on the Bible, the familiar oath, are touchstones of continuity. We need that. Our…
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Relentless Brewers edge closer to World Series glory
“Ueck has two statues at the park: one outside where fans leave empty beer cans as tribute, and another inside, in the thin air of the upper deck, a nod to those Miller Lite commercials in which Ueck got marooned in the nosebleeds. This was Ueck’s ball club as much as anyone’s. Yount underlined it before for Game 1, when he walked out for the first pitch wearing one of Uecker’s glorious car-salesman plaid blazers.” — Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
Today’s Laff Riot!
If anyone else had been picked for MVP, Wm Contreras would have tapped his helmet until ABS got it right.
Just saw a kid with a shirt that says “2/3 of the earth is covered with water. The other third is covered by Sal Frelich.”