Our family remembers Independence Day
David BlaskaFeed the priest! Reprinted and adapted from previous years Dad was always proud of being born on Independence Day. What are the odds? — two of his sisters were also born on…
Republicans would rather teach the poor to fish
Than subsidize poverty! Blaska gave his old boss Dave Zweifel plenty of excuse to fire his sorry ass. Especially the time your irascible blogger blocked the employee side entrance at…
Court protects right NOT to speak
Free speech trumps identity politics! Let’s say you are a gay website designer and an intolerant right-wing homophobe wants you to design his hate group’s website. WELL, GO AHEAD AND…
Madison had some of the worst smoke in the nation!
Second-hand Canada is bad for your health! Truly one for the books, a topic of water cooler conversation throughout Wisconsin. Everyone is comparing sunset pictures. A chart in today’s print…
Racial preferences amount to racial IN-justice
It’s racial discrimination no matter how you cut it! The end to racial preferences in college admissions is “a devastating blow to the fight for racial justice in the United…
The problem with Republicans …
… is its dues-paying members! Pogo, the philosophizing opossum in Walt Kelly’s classic comic strip, famously said, “We have met the problem and he is us.” In the same vein,…
Wisconsin a toss-up b/w Trump & DeSantis
Both would lose to Biden but Trump bigly! The June 2023 Marquette University Law School Poll just out today finds 31% supporting former President Donald Trump and 30% supporting Florida…
Smoke on the water
This is one for the books! Never seen it so smoky as today on the SW side of Madison WI. The National Weather Service blames Canada. Why not? !!! We’ve…
Wild rumor!
Is Bob Spindell proposing an election denier to head the WI Elections Commission? Word is that WEC commissioner Bob Spindell is proposing Daniel J. Eastman of Mequon as the next…
Et tu, She-Boy-gan WI?
Couldn’t resist the pun! June days are dwindling down to a precious few, as the song would have it. A whole month devoted to Pride of a different sort or,…