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It’s only $4 billion. Let’s not act like it’s a lot of money. The biggest issue of the new legislative term is what to do with the state’s $4 billion surplus. I have a really boring suggestion.  Last year the Republican-controlled Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers couldn’t agree on what to do with theContinue reading “The Most Boring Way to Spend $4 Billion”

“Which one is the aberration, Biden or Trump?” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware. “Has the United States permanently moved in a populist and right-wing direction, and Biden was just a temporary interruption?” Coons isn’t sure yet. “I think it is an open question,” he said. It isContinue reading “An Answer in Two Years”

I just finished reading Fareed Zakaria’s Age of Revolutions. It’s an excellent book and I’ll review it in more detail in another post, but today I wanted to focus on just one of his observations. It’s about meaning. Zakaria says that one of the reasons for the rise of worldwide far-right populism is the veryContinue reading “Meaning”

The other day I started running again. I hadn’t planned it. I was at the gym doing some weight lifting and I decided to take a walk on one of the treadmills facing the big windows that overlook Lake Mendota. It was more about the view than the walk, but I needed to get someContinue reading “Getting Better”

For a couple of decades climate deniers said climate change wasn’t happening at all. Then they said it was, but it wasn’t human caused, just a natural cycle. Now they say it’s real, but it’s too late to do anything about it — never mind we didn’t do something when we could have, mostly becauseContinue reading “Delusional Climate Deniers”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than President-elect and convicted felon Donald Trump, who said that renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America had: “A beautiful ring to it.” 1, What international body advises on the names of international waters? A) The International Hydrographic Organization,  B) The International Marine MonikerContinue reading “The Q&Q For 1/11/25”

The two stories were in direct conflict. On the evening news we watch the raging wildfires destroying entire neighborhoods around Los Angeles. And here in Wisconsin we read that the state projects that our population will decline by about 200,000 residents by 2050. The problem with the second story is that it doesn’t take intoContinue reading “We’re a Climate Haven”

Well, see, now this is what I mean. Legislative Democrats are huffing and puffing about a Republican move to put voter ID requirements in the state constitution. That measure passed the Senate yesterday with all 15 Democrats voting against it while they filled the chamber with non sequiturs. The non sequiturs were about gun control.Continue reading “Voter ID Not Worth the Fight”

The filing deadline for the April elections was yesterday and the races are set. Let’s see what we’ve got. The headliner will be a nock down, drag out fight once again for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Conservative (Republican) Brad Schimel will take on liberal (Democrat) Susan Crawford in this nominally nonpartisan race. This thingContinue reading “Let’s Unseat Underly”