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the Joe Biden patrol
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Guess who is helping Joe Biden.
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Let's Go Brandon!
(at least, we think that's what they were saying)
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Kyrsten Sinema
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Words of wisdom:
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“I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is, to what extent must I participate in your self-image?” — Dave Chapelle.
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Gableman gets to bottom of WI election mess
Be afraid, Democrats. Be very afraid
David Shor started modeling elections in 2008, when he was a 20-something blogger, and he proved good at it. … Now he’s scared. … “We’re screwed in the Senate,” he told me. Only he didn’t use the word screwed. … Shor’s model suggests they’ll lose a seat, and so the Senate. But it’s 2024 where things get very grim for them. ... Shor’s model predicts they’ll lose seven seats.
This might be the high-water mark of power they’ll have for the next decade. — Ezra Klein, NY Times.
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How progressives think
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It’s always the last place you look
'A racial disparity in schizophrenia diagnoses in nursing homes'
Headline in the New York Times (of course). "Diagnoses for the disorder have soared in the past decade, driven in part by a loophole in regulations. A new study shows the impact has been more severe for black Americans."
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Jefferson statue may be removed after more than 100 years at City Hall
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Black, Latino and Asian City Council members who find the sculpture oppressive and racist may finally win a two-decade fight to remove it from the New York City council chamber.
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Get your special Blaska Policy Werkes
decoder glasses now! 
Category Archives: Tales from the front lines
Uncle Greg
Really, 50 years? Older we get, more time we spend in the past, it seems. Opened our favorite Madison WI daily newspaper to find a remembrance of a significant development in the history of Wisconsin’s dairyland. Our uncle, Greg Blaska, … Continue reading
Riding two wheels back into history
In our own back yard Fatigued from Saving America, on the seventh day, the Head Groundskeeper rested. What do you expect? It was the last Sunday in September; how many more days remain with temps in the upper 70s under … Continue reading
We’re getting a new park!
Not that much wrong with the old one but .. Our little park here in Orchard Ridge, all 2.68 acres of it, is being renovated. The old basketball court and single light standard were removed several years ago. Can’t remember … Continue reading
Those ‘activist’ parents are getting help!
Where there’s smoke, there’s charcoal! Hope you are burning plenty of meat on the barbie this Labor Day. (Tell Greta to chill.) You have our permission to wash it down with a cold brew or two, guilt-free. Never mind what Obama … Continue reading
Enjoying Wisconsin at nearby Fish Camp
Where shall we go this summer? Been awhile since a fish boil in Door County. Love to return to the Smoky Mountains down south. That week in Bisbee AZ was great! Sleeper train car to Washington D.C. is the way … Continue reading
Off we go into the wild blue yonder
Flying off a hilltop in Verona WI To the north, from an elevation of 1,080 feet, you could look down on the sprawling new campus of Epic Systems just west of Verona. (Lake Monona is 845 feet above sea level.) … Continue reading
