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.

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.