There are any number of fears that occasionally grip people, however unfounded those fears, of snakes, of spiders, of black cats, etc. (Snakes play an important ecological role, some cultures think spiders are good luck, and black cats are beautiful with notably soft coats.) And yet, and yet… no fear strikes deeper and holds tighter…
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Whither the Conservative Populists?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
In places big and small, including Whitewater, there are three main types of conservatives: traditional, transactional, and populist. (Right-wing populist in our time is mostly a euphemism for Trumpist.) Of these types, only the right-wing populists are a dynamic movement. Traditional conservatives each day look more like large reptiles after a cataclysmic meteor strike, and…
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Daily Bread for 6.13.21
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 90. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:34 PM, for 15h 18m 54s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 9.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1805, scouting ahead of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis and…
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Daily Bread for 5.14.21
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Whitewater’s Local Politics 2021: The Kinds of Conservatives in Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • 9 Comments
This is the second in a series on Whitewater’s local politics of 2021. There are three principal kinds of conservatives in Whitewater. There are more kinds than this, of course, as there are many kinds of cats within the family Felidae; it’s enough for now to focus on the most common species within that family.…
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Daily Bread for 11.9.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of seventy-four. Sunrise is 6:40 AM and sunset 4:36 PM, for 9h 55m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 39.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1985, Garry Kasparov, 22, becomes the youngest World Chess…
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Daily Bread for 11.2.20
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After This Conflict Is Won
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
These last years have been difficult, and one can reasonably expect worse from Trumpism before that ideology is consigned – as it will be – to the political outer darkness. A necessary condition for optimism is an understanding of the present from which one can build a better future. (Local boosterism and babbittry are failures…
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Daily Bread for 3.29.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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Half-Right About the WISGOP
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Thomas Edsall, writing in the New York Times, quotes Jerry Taylor and Will Wilkinson of the Niskanen Center think tank on Republicans’ political economics. Two quotes from Taylor Wilkinson stand out – one right, and one wrong (at least wrong for Wisconsin). From Will Wilkinson, a view of cultural issues’ importance: The G.O.P.’s success in…
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Daily Bread for 9.7.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny, with a high of seventy-one. Sunrise is 6:26 AM and sunset 7:18 PM, for 12h 51m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 6.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the six hundred sixty-third day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first…
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Daily Bread for 5.20.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with intermittent rain, and a high of fifty-eight. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset 8:16 PM, for 14h 50m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 31.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the five hundred fifty-sixth day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16…
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Daily Bread for 4.21.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of fifty-four. Sunrise is 6:02 AM and sunset 7:44 PM, for 13h 42m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 34.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the five hundred twenty-seventh day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first day.…
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Review: Whitewater’s Outlook for 2017
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On January 4th, I posted Whitewater’s Outlook for 2017. Here’s a review of that post. Original from 1.4.17, with comments from 12.31.17 in blue italics, paragraph by paragraph — A year like 2016 – nationally – should leave a prudent person cautious about making predictions. I’ll not overlook the lesson from last year’s national scene,…