Republican for a day?

What to do!

It's primary day here in Michigan, where you can in either party's primary.

No Democrats have called me, but Romney, Santorum and their henchmen have been besieging my phone lines for weeks, disparaging the other candidate and begging for my vote.

Should I do it? Should I become a Republican for a day? With malicious/mischievous intent, should I vote for the candidate who will scare the bewillikers out of most reasonable people once they know more about him than his name?

It's a moral dilemma.

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Meanwhile, a big, mean winter storm is licking its chops and bearing down on us. I've got to cover a basketball game on the other half of the county tonight, but the most recent guidance from the Weather Service says the storm isn't going to be baring its fangs around here, until after midnight.

The thing is, tomorrow I have a 7 a.m. meeting for a board I serve on. And since I'm the president, I've got to be there. At least it's in town. That's about the time the storm should be at its stormiest, dumping maybe 2 inches of snow per hour. Wow! Better take my snow shovel along!

We are expecting 8 to 12 inches by the time it's over. If it snows that much, the district basketball championship game I'm supposed to cover that night (60 miles away) should be postponed. Any reasonable person would make that call. But these are school administrators we are talking about, so let's assume nothing.

By the way, maybe we are in for another storm this Friday or Saturday. Fun. Of course, I'm covering a different high school championship game about 80 miles away Friday night. Between here and there, it's the loneliest stretch of two-lane road you have seen in your life. Mainly forests and swamps on either side. The biggest town along the way has a population under 1,000.

Yes, it's fun to live up here in God's Country.