Mike Rowe for veep!
David BlaskaIt’s a dirty job but someone has to do it! Lost track of losing candidates who complained their supporters forgot to vote. They forgot to vote because you were a…
Vote for safe neighborhoods
For all races! We are guessing that more of us read the small-print waivers on those on-line software updates than peruse the Candidate Q&As in our favorite Madison WI morning…
Throwing long for the next vice president
Ayahuasca is not just a town in Ohio! Our reading of the Constitution does not prohibit the vice president from having a day job. Which raises the intriguing prospect of…
We left the world behind for a week
It seems not to have missed us! We’re back from Rancho Mirage, one of nine cities in the Coachella Valley about 120 miles due east from Los Angeles. The streets…
Wish you were here
Playing golf in Rancho Mirage Visiting the Coachella Valley where, I find, there are 45 listed public golf courses and 45 private courses. Playing one of the latter, The Springs,…
His last State of the Union
Joe Biden does one last service We tend to forget that politicians are people, too. Well, some of them, anyway. (Blaska once held elective office, so you can draw your…
Did you notice?
Our brave new look? The Werkes did some remodeling at Stately Blaska Manor, home of the Policy Werkes. We’re using a WordPress theme called “Stewart.” Replaces the Twenty-Ten theme we…
Zero out the Police Civilian Oversight Board
It would be duplicative if it wasn’t so dysfunctional! And paranoid! The great thing about a bowl of corn flakes in the morning is it’s hard to screw up. You…
Biased news media is defeating Joe Biden
Climate change loses out to border security! Joe must go! Old-timers remember when the Wisconsin State Journal was Madison WI’s conservative paper. Sunday’s fish wrap kvetches (inexplicably two years into…