Wisconsin Badger football fans are Fickell
David Blaska‘Gimme Shelter’ instead of Jump Around? A strange emotion washed over the Head Groundskeeper as his flickering b&w Philco displayed the 24-10 beatdown the Northwestern (usually) Mildcats administered to my…
We do not sing to the choir
Popularity is over-rated! For a change of pace, Blaska thought he’d write about something he actually knows: the virtues of being unliked. On that subject, Blaska is an expert! He’s…
How bad do we want war with China?
We’re getting too old for WW3! (The Head Groundskeeper careens out of his lane to dabble in international affairs.) In the last thrilling episode, we gave Vivek Ramawamy the Werkes!…
Punching low in the presidential ring
‘Let the bloodbath begin’ Opening sentence in Blaska’s autographed copy of pundit Patrick Buchanan’s autobiography, Right from the Beginning. We like a little blood spatter at our on-stage political debates.…
Might excusing genocide be considered hate speech?
Progressive hero justifies October 7 Our progressive … acquaintances have their own dog whistles. One of which is “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That’s code…
Say it ain’t so, Craig Counsell
There IS crying in baseball! Did it have to be the Cubbies? If Brett Favre can quarterback (verb, transitive) the Minnesota Vis-queens, if Jim Leonhard can coach (as an assistant)…
What did Hamas expect?
Israel teaches a valuable lesson! Trying to stay in our lane, the faceless bureaucrats at the Werkes are not geopolitical experts. We’ve allowed our international passport to expire and our…
Dems will dump Biden
Will GOP get wise? We don’t know and neither does anyone, so our guess is as good as yours. But we hear whispering. Detect the flash of knives. Feel the disquiet…
Baby, won’t you fix my car?
America, get your hands dirty! The iconoclasts sheltered at Blaska Stately Manor admire those who stand athwart history and yell “Stop!” William F. Buckley famously declared he would rather be…
Gaza is Guilty
Calls for a ceasefire are immoral. John Nichols is the contortionist in residence at The Nation magazine, the intellectual Rubberboy of the Madison WI Capital Times. The man could quote…