I told you it was dangerous out there. Here's the scoop:

Two vehicles in front of me run the red light in a construction area on North at I-110, actually turning onto 10th Street. I pull up and actually stop at the red light, and the lady behind me rear-ends me.

I don't think I am hurt too badly. No airbag deployment and the headrest kept me from getting severe whiplash. I'll probably be sore tomorrow.

Here is a case for and against George Bush.

The Bad Hair Day Blog gives the case for

More Americans have jobs today than at any other time in history

In today's Wall Street Journal: The Great American Jobs Machine: Employment is higher than at any time in history

But the larger story of American job creation, and its causes, is even more impressive.

First, more Americans have jobs today than at any other time in history. Second, over the past two decades or so, the U.S. has created more than 40 million jobs--twice as many as Europe and Japan combined. And third, the U.S. has one of the lowest jobless rates of all developed nations.
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Part of the explanation for this success is that, especially compared to Europe, the U.S. has imposed fewer taxes and regulations (even though we have plenty) that make it onerous for employers to hire and fire workers. A unique feature of the U.S. economy is that Americans move in and out of jobs--usually to rise up the income elevator--at a rapid and persistent pace. This is the key to the Great American Jobs Machine, and it explains why Europe and Japan should be more like us, and not the other way around.

In the meantime, Paul Krugman's bellyaching that it's an economy driven by real estate, and that "it has been a pretty disappointing recovery", since "we're paying for the housing boom (and the military buildup and tax cuts) with money borrowed from foreigners". To Paul, the glass is always half-empty, isn't it?

Too bad he doesn't read The Economist, which says,

There is much to welcome and little to fear in the economy's current progress.

Looks to me like the glass is more than half full, Paul.

While the Entangled thoughts blog presents data against

See if you can guess when G. W. Bushit became President.

Go ahead---take a wild guess--see if you can figure it out.
( Thanks to Intoxination for image)--go read about this at:http://intoxination.blogspot.com/2005/08/closer-look-at-oil-crisis.htm

We can find any data we want to support our position. So who is right? Both? Neither?

Long time gone. Been to Carole King concert, Astros-Mets, out to eat, working, proving prime conjectures, and so on. Read The Optimist's Daughter and re-read Slaughterhouse Five. The Road Warrior has taken some license numbers, but is spending most of his time listening to his iPod while driving the unholy streets.

I have also been listening to both political parties, and the best I can tell Democrats hate George W. Bush about as much as Republicans hate Bill and Hillary Clinton. Why is this? I ask myself. This is not merely a difference in policy. This is full-blown, subconcious stuff. The guys on the radio need to listen to what they are saying, because it sounds to me like a good case against the other side, but a lot of overlooking the plank in their own eyes. I would give advice, like get over it. Get over it, Democrats, that W "stole" the 2000 election. You forget that without the big-eared buffoon in the 1992 race that Bill would not have been President. Did Bill get over 50 % of the vote? How quickly we forget. And while you still may believe he "stole" the election, it was played by the rules. That is a hell of a lot more than I can say for John Kennedy and Daly in the 1960 election, and John Kennedy is a saint now. Republicans, remember Viet Nam, and let's do this War on Terror right. We seem to lack Direction, Leadership, or is it just Communication? Talk to us, W, like we are Fellow Americans.

In the end, though, my advice means nothing. No one wants to build consensus, we just want to be right. But what does a Southern, white middle-aged male know? My ilk is the cause of all the problems ... Right?