Not always what they seem...

When I was a freshman in high school I received varsity letters in two sports, football and track. Sounds pretty impressive huh? Well not really. You see as a freshman, I lived in this small town of 300 people, Lewellen, NE. To letter in football. you had to play one full quarter in a varsity game. In Lewellen we played 6-man football (yes really, 6 man) There was 12 guys on the team. I still spent the majority of my time on the bench. The coach sent the 3 of us who spent most of our time on the bench in, during one game where we were getting killed like 40 to zip. I played the whole 4th quarter. I also got 5 penalties (2 holding and 3 offsides).

In track in order to letter you had to place in the top three in a major track meet. Like I said I was in a small school. I got my letter by placing 3rd in a the two mile relay. The sad part is there were only 3 teams entered in the relay and I helped us lose by a full 1/4 mile.

I told those stories to give a bit of caution on what you are hearing about our new Supreme Court Nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. I read Paul Shockley's story, in the Daily Sentinel, on how the Mesa County lawyers are "praising" the choice of Sotomayor, and I don't think I want to say anything one way or another, just yet. I think we need to give this choice time to "simmer". Lets find out more about her before we give her praise or criticism.

This is where the hope comes in from that Hope and Change mantra that Obama dished out during the campaign, I hope this is a good change.