By Sept. 1, 2015 10:00 a.m. Our fellow Purple Wisconsin blogger Van Mobley likes to use an imagined conversation as a literary device. In these conversations, which always take place in someplace called the old Thiensville State Bank Building, Mobley presents himself as a sort of small town Obi Wan dispensing calm pearls of wisdom to excitable but misguided cronies. The device has its limits. The theme is rarely developed at any length but presented as inscrutable aphorism or ipse dixit. Often the point is that free trade is bad - and here the literary conceit is instructive. There is something appropriate about Mobley's promotion of mercantilism in a building named after a...
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