Yesterday, I posted a picture of Whitewater’s college campus as it appeared on a postcard. Here’s a bit more about the postcard that someone sent me — Below the picture, on the front of the card, is the inscription, “The Normal School, Whitewater, Wisc.” On the reverse, there’s a green, one-cent stamp, with Benjamin Franklin’s…

It’s a measure of a stagnant, mediocre political class that it substitutes ever-more flamboyant rhetoric for ordinary language. A normal, common person might describe a meeting as “pretty good, but a lit too long.” By contrast, cheerleaders of all things status quo would describe that event differently: “The exciting and informative meeting, described by everyone…

There are lots of interesting items that one can find for sale, of memorabilia of a town’s past. I found something like that recently, and thought readers might find it interesting. It’s a postcard of Fairhaven, in Whitewater, from decades ago. (I’ve no connection to Fairhaven, except to know of it as a senior care…