As I Type It: That Smell

Dateline Wisconsin. What is a dateline anyway? It doesn’t matter, really, because it sounds important, and today everything important originates in Madison, Wisconsin. And the importance about what currently originates from Madison is the wildly contradictory news people around the nation have been getting from here.Some sources report madness and sheer anarchy among those protesters gathered at the state Capitol, while others describe an endless string of bullying lies emanating from the governor’s mansion by way of shadowy figures attached to agents of Koch Industries. Mainstream news filters, of course, make it easy for one side or another to express their opposing points of view, giving them equal weight, regardless of the facts in play.

We here at News From the Great Re-Depression employ our own set of standards, our own impartial reporting skills, and a specially trained, though somewhat elderly, lie-sniffing husky dog named Sporky to sort the fact from fiction. But the pooch, we are sad to say, has been incapacitated for the time being by what we believe to be the rotting corpse of democracy.

Then again, if Sporky rolls in the putrid waste, we’ll know it’s just carp from Lake Mendota.