The National Football League is down to the final four teams. Excitement abounds, especially if you are in one of the remaining cities or are a fan of one of the finalists. The news/sports media are all agog over match-ups, history, speculations, and personal stories concerning these teams. Some of the newspapers I've seen start their sports sections on the front page and sports pages' first page scream headlines. There will be more about the players, coaches, fans, and pundits written this week and in the following two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl that fans will read than what they might normally read about politicians, government, and political races. While this is a great diversion from the seriousness/silliness of politics, government still impacts us all with decisions that are being made now. In Wisconsin, new governor, Scott Walker's first piece of legislation (AB1-assembly bill number one) is to place caps on how much money companies can be held liable for in lawsuits against them. This is being proposed as a job creation bill. While there are many provisions to this bill, basically, it would limit the amount of money someone could win against a company that did them wrong. A cap of $750,000 would apply to some lawsuits that claim "for loss of companionship, mental distress and pain and suffering". So, sorry we killed your spouse in a mistake that was ours, but if you sue, we are covered. If a survey were done to ask people if they knew who Aaron Rodgers or Ben Roethisberger or Joe Biden or John Boehner were, I'm guessing that Boehner finishes last, Biden next to last and you'd get a good conversation about the other two. This is not to say that the football games are not important. I will be hunkered down and watching both games on Sunday. But, I will also know about what our politicians are doing as well. Actually, they both are the best games in town.
Enjoy both.
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