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1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Art Kumbalek

   Fall Guy (opens the original)

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   vaccine shot in the arm. Praise be to the Brit Dr. Edward who back in 1796 figured a way to kibosh the small pox that had previously sent “300 to 500 million people” to the boneyard. Ouch! It’s now 2026, and I await a perturbed notice via post-office letter, email or phone call from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trumpel-thinskin’s “Health and Human Services” guy cum-roadkill chef, to express his dissatisfaction with my choice for health assurance over the blatherings of a nut-job. Fock ’e

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2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Art Kumbalek

   Pledge of a Grievance (opens the original)

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   I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, allow me to take a page from Donald J(ackass) Trumpel-thinskin’s playbook (never thought I’d do that, you betcha) from his recent blather at the GOP’s mid-term get-together, and ask you gentle readers to raise your right hand (bonus if it’s holding a cocktail) and repeat after me: “I pledge, to the greatest essayist in the history of southeastern Wisconsin, that loves us so much he can’t even breathe, probab

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3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Art Kumbalek

   What’s In a Name? (opens the original)

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   I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, another Monday Labor Day holiday has passed, the day we honor the workingman by pissing the day away drinking somebody else’s beer in some in-law’s backyard or a picnic park somewheres, what the fock. Hey, how ’bout next year instead we pay tribute to our true blue-collar people by working twice as hard and twice as long that day? A guy like me, for cripes sakes. Example: I’ve been palaving and slaving away at t

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4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Art Kumbalek

   Summer Leaves (opens the original)

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   I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, as our “president” D(oofus) Trumpel-thinskin navigates his way out of a Chinese finger trap with his self-proclaimed “four-to-five-week” “dust-up” with the history’s Persian empire that has stretched now to six-months and counting with the history’s Persian empire that has stretched now to six-months whilst an available finger trembles toward the fabled “nuclear button,” I am reminded of this:Â

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