Author Archives: dave cieslewicz

We’re not going to write anything about this. We don’t need to. We just ask that you take a look at the chart below and give it some thought.

Welcome to Monday from rainy Luxembourg. Here’s some stuff that happened last week. The fat lady finally sang. The inevitable happened and the Brewers got their big taxpayer funded payday. The state Senate made it go down only slightly easier by nudging up the Brewers’ contribution (which they’ll get from their fans by raising ticketContinue reading “Monday Catch Up: The Fat Lady Sang”

This week’s quote comes to us from the distinguished former Speaker of the House, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy of California, who said: “If I had punched him in the kidneys he’d be on the floor, c’mon.” A) In the fourth grade after confronting Billy O’Keefe who had attempted to steal his lunch money. B) InContinue reading “The Quote & Quiz for 11/17/23”

This has long been my favorite week of the year. It’s the week before the gun deer season opener on Saturday.  But this year is different. For only the second time since 1992 I’m going to miss the season. The other time was in 2020 because of the pandemic. I’ll miss it this year becauseContinue reading “Hunting Alone”

In new Speaker Mike Johnson the Democrats may be dealing with a much stronger and smarter opponent than they had in Kevin McCarthy. Johnson’s opening moves seem masterful. The very first thing he did was tie aid for Israel to a cut in IRS funding. He had to know that would go nowhere, but itContinue reading “Is Mike Johnson a Master Pol?”

Democrats were whipsawed last week. First came the news from a New York Times poll that Donald Trump was beating Joe Biden in five of six key states. That was bad. Then on Tuesday night Democrats did even better than expected, easily winning the governor’s office again in Kentucky, securing both houses of the LegislatureContinue reading “Why I Still Worry About Joe”

Welcome to your Monday. How ’bout that UW volleyball team?! (Okay, so they dropped one to Penn State, but they’re still among the best teams in the nation.) Also, football was played this weekend, but only by Northwestern. Today we’re starting a new feature here at YSDA, the Monday Catch Up. We’ve got so manyContinue reading “Monday Catch Up”

This week’s quote comes to us from a Brewers fan who summed up nicely how most of us felt about losing the team’s longest-tenured and most successful manager to the hated Chicago Cubs. As quoted in the Wisconsin State Journal, Kay Kenealy of Waukesha, a Brewers partial season ticket holder since 2006, said: “You knowContinue reading “The Quote & Quiz for 11/10/23”

As I watched last night’s slimmed down Republican debate I couldn’t get one question out of my head: why am I watching this? Only five Republican primary candidates made the cut to appear in a debate that was essentially about which one of them would remain standing as the sole line of defense against anotherContinue reading “And Then There Will Be Three”

Last night was a good night for Democrats. Once again the elections in play turned on abortion. The New York Times reported that the victors included: “Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, who criticized his opponent’s defense of the state’s near-total ban; legislative candidates in Virginia who opposed the 15-week abortion ban proposed by the RepublicanContinue reading “Re-election Boosts Beshear”