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Let’s say you’re a minimum wage worker and you screw up and get fired. What’s your payout? You’re lucky if you get your last paycheck. Now, let’s say you’re a CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation and you run your company into the ground. What happens? More often than not, you get all the millionsContinue reading “Money For Nothin’”

As a Democrat, I’ve been spending the last few weeks sifting through the wreckage of the last election, looking for anything that can be salvaged. Here’s one thing. The results sent a message, loud and clear, that voters don’t want to be thought of as faceless members of tribes defined by their race, gender identityContinue reading “Thankful For Individualism”

This may be my favorite week of the year. In the three days before Thanksgiving things are quiet. Here, I don’t mean the news. There’s news every day coming out of the once and future President. I’m trying to ignore that as best I can. I mean there’s a quiet in our souls. Okay, letContinue reading “A Good Week”

Today we’re going to depart from our usual format of the Quote & Quiz. Instead of offering a quote, the YSDA investigative team has obtained a copy of the Trump transition team’s questionnaire for potential cabinet picks. We quote it below. A) Trafficking under-age girls for sex. B) Raping a woman in a department storeContinue reading “The Q&Q For 11/23/24”

Deer hunting is mostly about anticipation and memory.  Hunters dream about and plan for their hunt for months in advance. Then they spend much of their deer camp evenings telling stories of what happened or what might have happened during their day alone in the woods. When those stories are exhausted they move on toContinue reading “Deer Stand Improvements”

When I was Mayor of Madison I wanted to have cabinet government, just like the governor has at the state level. My argument was that a chief executive at any level deserved to have his own team in place to implement the policies he was elected to pursue. Instead, the city operated like most citiesContinue reading “Matt Gaetz: Yes Man”

Of the 16 school districts in Dane County only one performs worse than Madison. To quote a Wisconsin State Journal story on test scores that were released yesterday: “The four specific categories used to calculate the district’s overall achievement score all declined in comparison with last year’s school report card. Graduate rates fell slightly, whileContinue reading “Madison Schools Keep Failing”

It just doesn’t make sense. Let’s say you’re like me. You love the environment. In fact, maybe you’ve contributed to environmental causes or even, as I did, had a career in the movement. Of course, these days you’re very concerned about climate change. And you live or have a place up in the North Woods.Continue reading “The Line 5 Scam”

So, here’s a question for my liberal Democratic friends. If we’re on the side of people of color and the working class, how come they’re leaving us in droves? And if your answer is that they’re just too dumb to know who their real friends are, well, see, there you go again.  Let me offerContinue reading “Failure in One Word: Latinx”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than House Speaker Mike Johnson. Referring to the completed, but unreleased, House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz. Johnson said: “I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House, AndContinue reading “The Q&Q For 11/16/24”