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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos seldom looks desperate. He looks that way this morning. Vos’ moves over the past couple of days remind me of a drowning man with two life preservers just out of reach. He lunges for one, comes up short, then lunges for another and then sinks for the second time.  Okay, enoughContinue reading “Vos is Flailing”

Sir Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein. Brian Gutekunst. I may not have the order right. That’s the way it looks this week after the Packer’s new quarterback Jordon Love looked, well, lovely in his first regular season start for the team followed quickly by Aaron Rodgers’ going down for the season after taking only four snapsContinue reading “Rodgers Ends in Drama”

Rosa Parks was no accident. When Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP’s legal division, was looking for a case to challenge racial segregation in public accommodations he had many potential plaintiffs to choose from. He selected Parks carefully. She was a sympathetic character who had a good story. A hard working woman who just wantedContinue reading “Robinson Is No Hero”

It’s become a parlor game. How can each side come out on top in what now seems like the inevitable impeachment of newly seated Wisconsin Justice Janet Protasiewicz? What seems likely to happen is that Assembly Republicans will vote to impeach and then the Republicans who control the Senate will just not act. That wouldContinue reading “Recall Ziegler and R. Bradley”

Welcome to a new Friday feature here at YSDA, The Quote & Quiz, wherein we grab our favorite quote from the previous week and test your knowledge of facts surrounding it. This week our quote comes from Dan Campbell, third year coach of the hapless Detroit Lions, who are actually favored by many to winContinue reading “The Quote & Quiz”

I’ve been reading up on astrophysics this summer. Don’t ask why.  Okay, well, since you asked, it’s because I’ve had reason to confront my own mortality more than I’d like to what with a friend and two family members passing away in the last several months. Since I’m neither religious nor spiritual this makes aContinue reading “Problems In Astrophysics”

When it comes to public art give me stuff that is beautiful, inspiring, maybe whimsical. Just don’t allow the artist to shove his political, cultural or bizarre aesthetic views down my throat. That’s what galleries are for. Bland is fine. I don’t want to have my world view challenged as I walk down the street.Continue reading “The Public Should Like Public Art”

Last week Pres. Joe Biden did what presidents do. He took a trip down to Florida to survey the hurricane damage, to say reassuring things and to promise help. The usual thing is for a state’s governor, Republican or Democrat, to show up to join the president if for no other reason than to showContinue reading “The Smallness of Ron DeSantis”

It’s Labor Day Weekend when politicians and the media will spend 72 hours missing the point. The point is that labor is not synonymous with unions, a fact that you could easily miss with all the coverage of union Labor Day picnics. Consider these facts provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: In the longContinue reading “Unions Aren’t the Answer”

I don’t much like what the Democratic Party has become. I stick with it because I really don’t like what’s become of the Trumpy Republicans. The Democrats used to be the party of the working class. Now it’s the party of condescending snobs. Latest case in point (you can find a case in point everyContinue reading “Rich Lessons in Rich Men North of Richmond”