Awaiting that midnight knock on the door
David BlaskaTell my story to the world! “I didn’t get a harrumph out of that guy,” Governor Lepetomane complained, pointing off camera in Blazing Saddles. We get party discipline, but it…
We’re desperate for a win
Lowering expectations to the vanishing point! The world’s greatest democracy seems doomed to endure an entire year of Groundhog Days by nominating super-annuated, increasingly disreputable, and possibly criminal presidential candidates.…
Slip sliding away
Are we living in an A&E reality show? The b&w Philco here at the Stately Manor flickers with a cable TV series out of Canada showing tow truckers pulling big…
‘It is racist to attack affirmative action’
UW Law School mandates DEI ‘re-orientation’! You come here thinking like lawyers and you will leave with a head full of mush.’ — What professor Kingsfield might say today. Never…
New jail may leave penguins in the cold
Public safety or pool tables for teenagers? Does this make more sense than anything you’ve heard from an elected official since Dan Quayle said a mind is a terrible thing to…
Splitting Madison into atoms for Democrat(ic) control!
Guaranteed to satisfy no one! Wisconsin Democrats can pose for a PowerPoint’s worth of holy pictures all they want but Elbridge Gerry never mandered so voraciously. The faceless bureaucrats at…
The trail went cold in Iowa
But can Trump win Wisconsin? Iowa is next door and just as cold but they don’t have the Packers. Another difference: Iowa is now politically more red than the nose…
I read the news today, oh boy!
about an unlucky team that did not make the grade! But there were signs …. Blaska’s Bottom Line: We thought Jimmy Johnson was going to have a heart attack! Didn’t…
Could we be so lucky?
Maybe a shovel pass? Packers head coach Matt LaFleur praised the young man’s parents for bringing him up the right way. Starting quarterback Jordan Love led the Green Bay Packers…
None dare call them ‘fake’ electors!
They’re ‘alternate’ electors! Kowabunga, Buffalo Bob! The Head Groundskeeper here at Stately Blaska Manor is fire and brimstone on the January 6 insurrection but the alternate electors (as they shall…