Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Taking this subject to rural Republican southwestern Wisconsin. 020
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you take the time to read this article, our nation will be some $22 million deeper in debt when you finish. Rich people want it this way, they profit handsomely from it being this way. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/mooching-u... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My latest offering over at Ebiyan House pays tribute to this effervescent lover of life who once had five of his books on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time but would be a fish out of water in today's America. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/for-fear 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Cast my ballot early in Wisconsin's August primary election. Took only one fear with me to the polls. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/the-lights... 010
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026May we be so fortunate one day to have history record that we recovered our own fumbles, drove the length of the field, going for broke on fourth down against a furious blitz, catching excellence as our time expires. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/warts-and-... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Socialism in North Dakota 110 years ago. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/the-makeup... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Opportunity always lurks amidst calamity. Something’s brewing out there, something your average tech bro cannot see coming. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/what-might... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Should've learned these things in school, needed to learn about them, but didn't, leaving my formal education woefully incomplete. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/condemned-... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Eight mammoth problems, and we're letting everything from bombs to seashells get in the way of us dealing with them. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/mums-the-w... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Whether looking back or pondering what lies ahead, there are monsters in sight. How to respond, that's the test. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/seeing-mon... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Doing this in about a month. Greatly looking forward to it. Important discussion. www.lwvdanecounty.org/forums/conne... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Appleton this Friday. Will be swapping stories, pouring drinks, selling and signing some books. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026We can either have a workable system facilitating orderly legal entry and residence in the country or large masses of people who continue to see unauthorized migration as their best chance or only hope. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/hold-on-ti... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Hear it all the time, "I'll believe it when I see it." Actually, we're better off when we think it's the other way around. As Trevor Noah said, “even though you cannot see it, you believe that it can happen.” mikemccabe.substack.com/p/first-thin... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Couldn’t understand the words, still the message came through loud and clear. Pay less attention to the nightmare and more to the dream. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/suena-mi-n... 110
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The trade our country is now making is even more foolish than the one made the day after Christmas in 1919. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/the-worst-... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Coming up in a couple of weeks. Will be talking about the tragedies unfolding in our country, trying to make sense of the madness, imagining how we might pull our fat out of the fire. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The little possum's timeless message still resounds, though it's not easy to hear with all the noise pollution from the constant actions aiming to ethnically cleanse our nation, distract from unnerving economic uncertainty and stifle social unrest. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/pogos-remi... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Crowd gathered outside the Wisconsin State Capitol on Friday during a vigil for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. I love this nation of immigrants and will always stand in its defense against xenophobic violence. 020
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 18/12/2025A caller to the radio show I'm on every Wednesday afternoon brought up this passage from A Christmas Carol while we talked about my holiday-themed Substack article that dropped Monday. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/just-needs... Love Dickens, love A Christmas Carol, especially love these two pages. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 15/12/2025In the spirit of the season, my warmest holiday wishes along with words of great concern about current conditions in the world and high hopes for our shared future. Also an embedded video clip of a 60 Minutes interview that is quite remarkable @ mikemccabe.substack.com/p/just-needs... 010
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 09/12/2025The cure for the powerlessness that ails us can be found in our own history, provided we have the wisdom and courage to teach it and the good sense to believe in it. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/curled-up-... 010
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Convince me otherwise. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/looking-th... 010
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Zohran Mamdani and Abe Lincoln have something remarkable in common. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/new-dog-ol... 133
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Seems like everyone's talking about the government shutdown at the moment. Pretty much everything's been said, so what I wrote for my journal over at Ebiyan House doesn't dwell on today's news, it looks to the future of government's purpose. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/man-versus... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Our country's going through a rough patch, no doubt about it. Still, we face nothing that's too big to handle, but we're sure not acting like it. Wrote about this in today's post over at Ebiyan House. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/time-to-gr... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 21/10/2025In my youth I said the 4-H pledge more times than I can count, with no idea that the ideals expressed in that vow would one day become scarcities. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/weapons-of... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I’ll grant you that college is not for everyone. But I still find it weird that so many Americans have grown so skeptical and dismissive of higher education. And I find it downright dangerous that America chose to more or less stop teaching civics. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/cooling-on... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Will be discussing my novel Miracles Along County Q and signing copies next Tuesday evening @mbcbrews.bsky.social's Madison taproom. If you're in the area, stop by for a pint or two. If we haven't yet met in person, here's our chance. If we already know each other, would be great seeing you again. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025When the Watergate scandal was about to bring Richard Nixon down, he took to the airwaves in hopes of holding on to the nation's highest office. His plea fell on deaf ears. He didn't know then what the office's current occupant knows too well. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/go-ahead-t... 010
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Shots ring out, once, twice, so many times we lose count. They are not stopped. Comedians, now they must be stopped. They can joke no more, their shows canceled. To read the rest of this essay, go to mikemccabe.substack.com/p/in-the-nam... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Excited to bring my tonic for mad times to Stevens Point on Saturday. Full event details can be found at boundtohappenbooks.com/events/35084... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025There's a reason it's called doomscrolling and not hopescrolling. There’s no putting the digital genie back in the bottle, but we can exercise free will and wisdom. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/reverse-en... I share some thoughts about Charlie Kirk here, but the article's not about him, it's about us. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Was given this shirt some years ago. As good a time as any to break it out. Enough fear has been mongered in the last few months alone to torment six lifetimes. Cultivating hope in dark times is one of the most impactful actions imaginable. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/fuel-for-t... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Will be selling and signing copies of my novel after the talk. Full details of the event can be found at platomadison.org/event-6298868 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Another day in America, another candlelight vigil. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/exactly-wh... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Lutheran Pastor Jonathan Barker took a stand. Cost him a lot to do it. Says as much about our times as it says about him. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/generation... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We're being serially lied to. Those doing the lying stand to benefit when we turn on each other, see neighbors as enemies, ferment our fears into hate, find catharsis in cruelty. An answer. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/rising-above 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Was talking on the radio this morning about my latest article relating to that invisible hand... mikemccabe.substack.com/p/visibly-or... 010
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Honored to make the reading list of a local newspaper editor who's a voracious reader. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 22/07/2025These days, seems like more Americans are more afraid of more things than at any time I can recall. Does it help? mikemccabe.substack.com/p/arent-you-... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Yesterday's event at the Owen Public Library that was part of the community's Centennial celebration. Tickled that so many high school classmates stopped by. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Many if not most Americans find haggling over the price of goods or services uncomfortable. Much of the rest of the world is into bargaining. Dickering is a marketplace ritual, the secret sauce of social bonding in civilizations far more advanced than ours. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/haggling-t... 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Returning to my old stomping grounds, will be talking about my novel and signing copies at Owen's public library on the 19th as part of the community's Centennial celebration. 000
Mike McCabe @backroadauthor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Tanzania's most remarkable characteristic is its people. Had the chance to wander the markets, try my hand at wood carving, sample some banana beer. It was only then that the invisible came into plain view. mikemccabe.substack.com/p/haggling-t... 000
