Like pmed, I'm a Waxing America reader — now that Paul Soglin (the former and long-time mayor of Madison) has hung up his (campaign-)running shoes, he passes his time opining publicly on his blog.

Not that he didn't while he was office, but now this is a clearly a man no longer subject to the self-censoring restraints of a public official, and he seems to relish the freedom.

I'm at the coffee shop, cleaning out unread stories in Reader. Soglin writes a lot. And while many of the topics aren't as relevant to Wisconsin expats like me and pmed, they're still interesting. Since he's a very prolific blogger, I tend to read the entries in batch mode, picking out the ones that interest me most.

But I think we hit a new high in getting inside Soglin's head this week. He posted his dream from the previous night in which he is a lost bus driver in Seattle and comes across a bowling alley with two armies rolling bombs at each other.

Perhaps it's his subconscious telling us that we're spending too much on defense and the war in Iraq and too little on our underfunded public transportation?

The man dreams in terms of public policy.