Politics and Policy and Blogs, oh my!

"What's this 'public policy' thing," you may ask, "and what is it doing on a political blog?" Yeah, I know. Guilty as charged. There are definitely sites and writers out there who focus heavily (in some cases, to a fault) on partisan politics with absolutely no regard for the meaning of what those political games lead to: public policy. Legislation. Laws. The things that govern the way members of our society deal with and treat each other. Those writers' (after all in some cases, it's not re