The Day After

It's finally the day AFTER the 2006 elections. No more phone calls left on my answering machine soliciting my vote. No more flyers in my mail to recycle. No more screaming TV and radio ads to try and tune out. Peace at last. Here's a few post-election thoughts:

On the Gubernatorial election: Supposedly, Dick DeVos spent nearly 40 million dollars of his own money to have the voters of Michigan thoroughly and totally reject the Amway heir. I hope he has some bucks left over for a Great Lakes booze cruise because man, he's gonna need one.

On Proposal 2: The Detroit suburbs have spoken. I guess it's time to stop encouraging ethnic and economic minorities as well as women into good Universities and into professions that have traditionally excluded them (show me a woman surgeon or mechanical engineer - very rare). I guess as a white male, I should feel "more" empowered than I already am.

On Proposal 3: I'm sorry that juveniles and the disabled can't hunt Doves in Michigan. Maybe they should just shoot paper targets until they're ready to step up to hunting real game.

Detroit Tigers' 2006 Season

With all the bad news here in the state of Michigan and in the world, the Detroit Tigers are the "feel-good" story of the year (particularly if you're a baseball fan which I am). It's been 19 years since the Tigers played a post-season game and only 3 years since the team lost a franchise record 119 games. Every post-season game will be like a few extra precious minutes of a great dream. Thanks boys of summer!

Dick DeVos De-evolves

What's wrong with the Republicans in this state? I was just starting to like Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos as he was saying some interesting things about how to move our Michigan economy in a better direction. Then he goes off endorsing the so-called "Intelligent Design" theory (which is the new version of Creationism) stating that he'd like to see that taught in our public schools. Sorry Dick but anyone who's studied and respects science knows that "Intelligent Design" does not meet empirical laws of serious scientific study. Where are the moderate, reasonable "Milliken" Republicans that once inhabited this state? Extinct, I guess.

Reboot!

Time to restart with a fresh Blog. I will import a couple of previous postings as they are still relevant to the overall Blog.