Besides, if you didn't wake up with a giant smile on your face and a song in your heart about Michigan's economy then I know just the ticket(s).  They say a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and have I got news that'll put joy in your heart and a song in your head.

The magnificently written, gorgeously published and almost always typo-free Detroit Free Press reports this morning that General Motors might in August announce the possible creation of 100 new battery production jobs right here in Michigan!  

They like 100 of us!  They really like 100 of us!

In even happier news for a lot of the good folks in the big, giant heart of Detroit, the new Police Chief is on the job and has a really awesome, creative way to stop murder... he's going to tow away men's cars before they have a chance to use them to drive somewhere an kill someone.  The Detroit News reports on this cutting-edge, outside-the-box anti-crime tactic:

The chief announced the measure during Thursday's Detroit Board of Police Commissioners meeting and said the policy would go into effect Monday.

Evans told the board that many shootings in the city are committed at night by young men in their late teens and early 20s without valid driver's licenses.

He figures by seizing their vehicles for traffic offenses, he can cut down on the number of drive-by shootings.

I sat here at the computer for two or three minutes, put on my thinking cap and tried really hard to come up with something happier than not getting shot and I couldn't do it.  I think not getting shot might actually be the happiest thing in the entire world.  If there is a parallel universe that runs on happy, I'm 99 percent sure the happy it needs is generated by people not getting shot.  

(If you read on it'll make me happy...)