Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 50. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is 7:23, for 12 hours, 51 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 34.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Arts Commission meets at 5 PM, and the Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1865, Union forces capture Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.
In October, writing about the scariest things in Whitewater for the year, this libertarian blogger listed the two worst threats to the city as special interests and nativism. Later, in February, I wrote that there was now only one notable kind of conservative in Whitewater, as only the conservative populists matter politically (‘a conservative might imagine himself as something else (a traditionalist or a deal-maker), and might be something else, but only in his house or in his head’).
There’s one more threat to add to the list, brought about by the same movement that is responsible for the other three: A third global recession in 20 years looms.
There’s always someone who thinks that this predatory movement will see the error of its ways. It won’t, not now, not ever. It may lose its grip on the nation, but it will fall to a majority of others outside that movement to turn it aside.
Those who’ve gone this far, these dead-enders, will never repent of the their conduct, of the damage they’ve caused others.
On the contrary, they’ve never been more assured, more self-justified, than now.
The most conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court — she is — seems upset: