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Joe Biden got, as expected, sustained applause and chants of “Thank you, Joe!” at last night’s Democratic convention in Chicago. The subtext was that most of the delegates were thanking him for leaving the ticket. For me, his speech underscored why it was so important that Nancy Pelosi engineered Biden’s exit. His performance was justContinue reading “Biden Exits to Applause”

This week it’s the Democrats’ turn in the spotlight. They’ve got a chance to get the traditional bump that the Republicans didn’t get from their confab in Milwaukee last month. Now to be sure, no matter how well they do I don’t think it will be a big jump in the polls simply because there’sContinue reading “The Dems’ Convention To Do List”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than Gen Z cultural icon Charli XCX, who said: “kamala IS brat.” (Improper capitalization is her own.) She went on to explain “brat”, thusly: “You’re just like that girl who is a little messy and likes to party and like maybe says some like dumb thingsContinue reading “The Q&Q For 8/17/24”

Democrats are over-stating the importance of their defeat of two Republican backed constitutional amendments in this week’s primary. It doesn’t mean everything they want to think it does, but it doesn’t mean nothing. I honestly had no idea how that was going to turn out and I didn’t care much. I voted against the amendments,Continue reading “Trouble Ahead for GOP”

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris had a chance to reintroduce themselves to voters over the last few weeks. Harris knocked it out of the park while Trump struck out.  But baseball is not the analogy that gets it quite right. We’ll turn to music instead.  After the attempt on his life, which came literallyContinue reading “Trump in the Key of Bitterness”

Some of the results of yesterday’s primary were predictable — but not necessarily by me. Let’s review. Referendums go down. The two state constitutional referendums (which were really one issue) went down to defeat by a healthy margin. I’m a little surprised, but I didn’t care much one way or the other. The amendments wereContinue reading “Primary Results”

A week from today the Madison City Council will vote to put a first-ever city referendum on the November ballot, asking voters to increase taxes beyond state limits. When it does that the Council could show good faith with Madisonians if it also moved to eliminate the senseless office of the Police Monitor. Here’s theContinue reading “Abolish Police Monitor”

Ok, so this one isn’t from Madison. I took this picture in Gleason, a little community between Rhinelander and Merrill on Highway 17. This is more odd than angle. I hadn’t planned to buy any meat, but since we didn’t even have to get out of the car… Odd Angles is a regular Sunday morningContinue reading “An Odd Angle”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who last week explained: “I pulled over and I picked up the bear cub and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear. It was [in] very good condition and I was goingContinue reading “The Q&Q For 8/10/24”

The latest Marquette poll is out and it’s a lesson in why we shouldn’t take polls too seriously until after Labor Day. The reason is that things are happening too fast. We need to settle in for a few weeks before any polling numbers mean much. The trouble with this latest poll is that itContinue reading “Don’t Trust the Polls — Yet”