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I was born and raised a U of M football fan. Still am. Married into an MSU family. So if one team isn't doing all that hot there's another one to root for. (Usually the team to be not all that hot is MSU, no offense.) All you in-laws understand what I mean.

This year my Wolverines, with a new head coach with a new system, and half the starters freshmen or red shirts, know it's not going to be a steller season. The first few games have been VERY rough to stomach. They look like they might be able to compete with Division II or III team.

It's an odd feeling watching a game in the Big House this year where Michigan is the underdog.  Not right at all...

So yesterday I'm at work for the beginning of the Michigan/Wisconsin game. About half-way through the first quarter I have to excuse myself for the drive home with the intention of listening to crappy talk radio for an hour rather than stomach the drubbing my team is taking.

I arrive at my parents house to pick Max up sometime late in the 3rd quarter to witness U of M's first score of the game. 19-7. Woohoo!

Leaving for home, with Max conked out in the back, I determine to forget about the rest of the game. How much punishment can I take..?

Now, Max and I get home, mess around for a bit and the phone rings. It's my dad. The guy who raised me on U of M football. "You watch the game...?" He proceeds to enlighten me to the fact our guys (unranked) came back and won the damn thing (Wisconson ranked #9). "The greatest comeback at the Big House in U of M history" they're calling it. He had to call me from South Carolina to tell me my team pulled it off.

I had to settle for Staudt on Sports.

There's a lesson and maybe even a point in this post somewhere.

I gotta say I'm feeling a bit sad for John McCain at this point.

He's not the same guy he was before he decided to throw his hat into this year's presidential race. I always sort of pegged him as somewhere between right and center. Now..? Hmph.

It's sad he's changed more than a few of his views in what amounts to me as concessions to the conservative right.

It' sad he chose Sarah Palin for his running mate in what amounts to a silly ploy to gain the disenchanted female "Hillary" vote. Come on... I don't care how much the compaign defends her executive experience (or lack of), her foreign policy experience (or lack of), or how much the compaign is "not" shielding her from the press. It was a lousy choice for the wrong reasons. I HAVE to believe the American people as a whole aren't that naive. Or that stupid.

It's sad, it seems, this campaign and it's presumptuous leaders have transformed this great, American war vet and hero into the man we see standing behind Sarah Paliin at every rally and campaign stop with a look on his face like he just wants to apologize for something.

Some people say not many decisions in his campaign are made without John McCain. If that's true, with the way things have been going, I'm completely dumbfounded.

And sad for a great American.

That won't keep me from voting for change.

Just finished watching Bush try and sell his bail-out plan to us "Amurcans."

 Feeling kinda small and irrelevent.

I may not know much about certain things, but I do know I've been walking around with a lump in my stomach for the last few weeks with this whole stock-market-housing-bubble-barrel-of-oil-too-few-refineries clusterf***.

If I hear the term "FDIC insured" one more time, my head just might roll off my shoulders and into the nearest gutter.