Tag: New Year's resolutions
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Have a reasonably happy New Year
If at all possible. Somehow, “2025” does not resonate like “2024” did. Our hopes for the new year, therefore, are less those of a hopeful kid dog-earing the Sears Christmas toy catalog and more along the lines of Joe Biden in the White House. We just want to survive the coming new year with most…
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Twenty four for ’24 — the second dozen
Blaska’s policy agenda for the new year! We are tempted to add Steve Martin’s Christmas wish list: “All the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace,” followed by “Revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in hell!” Pretty much covers the bases. (If you missed…
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Twenty four for ’24 — the first dozen
Blaska’s policy agenda for the new year! The faceless bureaucrats at the Werkes put these proposals up last year as ’23 for ’23. We will keep doing so until the poobahs get the message. As we encounter another year we had to add a 24th. (No extra charge for you Platinum subscribers!) These are modest proposals…
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Twenty three for ’23
Blaska’s policy agenda for the new year! Jonathan Swift would call these modest proposals. Progressives will claim to be triggered and demand reparations. Totally disregarding popular demand, once again The Werkes proposes uncommon sense proposals for a prosperous new year in Madison WI: 1) Amend the Wisconsin Constitution to place the Department of Public Instruction…
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Blaska’s Brave New Year Agenda
Your to-do list for 2022! The gray lab coats here at the Policy Werkes (an ornery bunch if ever …) jump started Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, fed it kitchen scraps from Christmas dinner, turned the dials all the way to 11, and let the machine shake, rattle and roll overnight. The result: this…