Tag: Peggy Noonan
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Blaska’s book report
Words are worth fighting over! Blaska did like old people are supposed to do and joined a book club. Composed of some very accomplished people, they let me in anyway. We count former mayors, state legislators, a county executive, a college dean and president, and state agency secretaries. We got a book author, various attorneys,…
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America needs friends, even if they are Canadian
Words matter! We’re reading Peggy Noonan’s fun and fond remembrance of her days in the Reagan White House, What I Saw at the Revolution; a political life in the Reagan era.” Published 35 years ago, Peggy’s effervescent writing has lost none of its intoxicating fizz. Peggy wrote Reagan’s immortal “Boys of Point d’Hoc” speech at…
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Blaska had a cold once, too
Didn’t cause any more nonsense than usual! Back when your irascible bloggeur was gainfully employed (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away), a co-worker announced over lunch — in stunned wonderment — that he had been told he had one year to live. Blaska took the check. Cancer, it seems, is cruelest…
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San Francisco was not part of the Woke lesson plan
The Werkes brings out your worst! It’s taken a few days but Progressives have found their voice. After San Francisco voters took its cancel culture school board to the woodshed 02-15-22, the yappers of the Left were afflicted by an unusual malady: stunned silence. The Woke Folk are back in full throat blaming, as did…
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Defeated Trump haters vow ‘no more playing fair!’
‘Whatever we have to do; and we’re not going to necessarily play fair.’ — Democrat(ic) party insider on MSNBC Didn’t some communist write a folk song that went something like this: It takes a worried man to write a worried blog. Blaska is just the man for the job, given that the original gonzo reporter is…