It’s happened here again following a blasphemous cartooning incident involving the sacred image of Saint Vince… as the Iowahawk notes,
Over the past five years, the volatile Midwest has produced violent rage like
the knockwurst output at Milwaukee’s venerable Usinger’s — sudden, repeated, and in long
unbroken strings. One of the principle catalysts was the rise the Uff Da
insurgency, led by the enigmatic
Pastor Duane Gunderson, who seek a unified Lutheran caliphate stretching
from the Great Plains to Lake Huron, and the banning of non-Big 10/Pac 10
apostates from the Rose Bowl. Gunderson remains in hiding, but his influence was
seen last year in the widely publicized Lutefisk
desecration riots that rocked the Heartland amid the pancake breakfast
holidays.Still, outside of the Dells and a handful of violent outposts near its
western Mississippi River border, Wisconsin remained a relatively calm exception
to the Midwestern maelstrom surrounding it — a fact that experts attribute to
subtle differences in culture and religion."Unlike the ultra-extreme, radical Lutheran sectarians of Iowa and Minnesota,
most ethnic Wisconsinites belong to the Wisconsin Lutheran Synod," said Joseph
Killian, a Midwestern Studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta. "And if
you add in three Super Bowl titles, easier access to beer, and walleye fishing,
and you’re going to have a much calmer and more stable culture."All that would change in November with the publication of four cartoons in a
Texas office newsletter — cartoons that today have brought this once happily
beer-goggled society to the precipice of all-out culture war.
… here’s an excerpt… (read the whole thing at Iowahawk)
Seething Midwest Explodes Over Lombardi Cartoons
Green Bay, WI - Like a pot of bratwurst left unattended at a
Lambeau Field pregame party, simmering tensions in the strife-torn Midwest
boiled over once again today as rioting mobs of green-and-gold clad youth and
plump farm wives rampaged through Wisconsin Denny’s and IHOPs, burning Texas
toast and demanding apologies and extra half-and-half.
Cartoon that shocked Midwest
The spark igniting the latest tailgate hibachi of unrest: a Texas
newsletter’s publication of caricatures of legendary Green Bay Packers coach
Vince Lombardi.
Protestors demonstrated against the images throughout the Badger State
yesterday, with violent egging and cow-tipping incidents reported in Oconomowac,
Pewaukee, Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Antigo, Oshkosh, Waubeno, Wauwautosa, Waunewoc,
Wyocena, Waubeka, and Washawonamowackapeepee.
Some of the most dramatic
skirmishes were centered around Kenosha, where a mob of masked snowmobilers
invaded the Texas
Roadhouse on I-94, briefly holding the margarita machine hostage. They were
later seen storming the beverage department at Woodman’s, where they purchased
several cases of Point and a pack of Merit menthols, and later at the Brat Stop classic rock/sausage outlet, where
they were reported angrily "boogie-ing out" on air guitar to featured
entertainment Molly Hatchett.
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