Back on the horse.

I’m a little bit late to the conversation, but with the first preseason game of the year tonight, it’s better late than never. Rick Esenberg argues that the Packers are planning on losing this year:
There are only two answers to that question that are consistent with Thompson and McCarthy acting for the good of the [...]

I woke up this morning to an NPR discussion on the virtues of getting rid of supreme court elections, and having the justices appointed by the governor, instead.
The argument seems to be that the campaign run by Mike Gableman and his third-party surrogates spent too much money, was too negative, and was largely based on [...]

The Cap Times wonders if global warming will affect the Packers. Given their performance in the NFC championship game, it couldn’t hurt.

Today is the beginning of secular Advent: the first day of spring training.

Barack Obama won Wisconsin 58% to 41%, but it’s more fun to look at the local results. He won Dane County 67% to 31%, and he won the city of Madison 71% to 28%.
There are 188 wards reporting in Dane County (*). Barack Obama won all 188 of them.
My own ward 99 is [...]

Via the Thoughtful Conservative, it’s the Wisconsin version of Super Bowl trivia (no cheating!):
Which team won Super Bowl I?
Which team had the MVP in Super Bowl I?
Which team won Super Bowl II?
Which team had the MVP in Super Bowl II?
Which team won Super Bowl XXXI?
Which team had the MVP in Super Bowl XXXI?

Heh. And you’ve gotta love the commenter who quips, “You know Mitt would sign anything! He’d even write ‘Go Yankees!’ on a Red Sox Jersey if you asked him to.”

I got to spend my lunch hour at the DMV today, renewing my driver license. It was news to me, but apparently the state rolled out a new driver license a couple years ago. It’s now almost certain that we have the ugliest and worst-designed driver license in the United States.
The good changes:

The font of [...]

After a campaign season full of headlines like “Ziegler faces conflict questions: Husband on bank board; she made rulings anyway”, and after hearing Annette Ziegler argue that, despite state laws to the contrary, she can use her own private “gut check” to determine if there are any conflicts of interest, and after she was censured [...]

Via WisOpinion: Don Huebscher, editor of Eau Claire’s Leader-Telegram, thinks trains are a waste of money:
An amendment was offered as part of the Amtrak budget vote that would have capped taxpayer subsidies at $200 per passenger next year, and reducing that cap by $25 per passenger in each following year. The amendment failed by a [...]

Good for Senator Dodd:
Connecticut Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd has vowed to put a hold on a Senate bill that reportedly would grant retroactive legal protection to any phone or internet company that helped with the president’s secret, warrantless wiretapping program, Dodd announced via email and on his presidential campaign website Thursday.
The larger problem, of course, [...]

For the most part, I think Ned Yost’s been doing a good job. He’s not the Manager of the Year, but I’m certainly not on the Fire Ned Yost bandwagon. He’s adequate, and there aren’t any potential candidates out there who would be obviously better.
Over the course of a season, any number of decisions will [...]