Tag: Laura Simkin
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Will cell phones be banned at Madison schools?
During classroom instruction? You can hear the frustration in the text message from yet another teacher in Madison’s public schools — this one at Memorial high school. Dear Parent, I’m reaching out to beg you to have a conversation with your student about cell phone use during class. Since returning from my parental leave, I’ve…
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Unconditional surrender would be a good start
Hand over Putin and the dog doesn’t get hurt! Joe Biden was right. Yes to regime change. Walk away from the peace talks. Use Ronald Reagan’s playbook: “My strategy? We win; they lose.” Vladimir Putin must go, Russia must vacate and pay reparations. The WW2 Allies at Casablanca insisted on unconditional surrender. It is a matter of…
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Slim Pickens
“Well boys, we’ve got three engines out, we’ve got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio’s gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower, why we’d need sleigh bells on this thing.” Stole every movie in which he appeared, from Blazing Saddles to Dr. Strangelove. Could just as well…
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Happy new year. Welcome to the same old …
It’s time to panic! The gray lab coats at the Policy Werkes tore their ears off the freezing cold train tracks this morning to report that nothing new is coming this a-way. The change train that visited Virginia, New York City, and Seattle ain’t stopping at the Emerald City. Neighbors here on the SW side…