It's been a glorious few days in Metropolitan Detroit: sunny, cloudless, splendidly temperate. But a six hour drive out and back across the top of Detroit's nearer suburbs revealed something truly astonishing.We're talking about one-third freeway, two-thirds surface roads through roughly two dozen separate smallish cities including Chesterfield, Mt. Clemens, Warren, Roseville, Eastpointe; and Centerline, Southfield, Oak Park to Farmington Hills; and on through Royal Oak, Pleasant Ridge, Berkley, Clawson, and Fraser.A perfect day to do the miscellaneous chores and travels of daily life. Until, an hour into the drive blowing west on I-696 he turns and says: "have you seen any bumper stickers?"The Better Half says: "not a one."Something really wrong here.Feels like a time warp for a minute. "We do have an election coming, right?" All the state wide jobs, governor, supreme court, all the state house and senate and every U.S. Congressman from Michigan. No...(Read Full Post)