[djmcmath]

Hmmm ... drug demand is high, and we can't reduce it? Maybe there's a better answer? Maybe if we legalized drugs? Then US pharmas could go into business producing drugs. Designer drugs, popular new drugs, good quality control, legalized distribution, the whole works. What would that do to South American economies? We could put tarriffs on imported drugs, perhaps?

Some jobs, obviously, would probably still maintain their drug free requirements. I can't imagine the military ever relaxing it's stance on drugs, for example. I'd like to see, say, airline pilots maintained drug free as well.

As to the media's bias on W's "failures," it's largely a matter of perspective. The fact that the media can spin it to convince people that he's failed miserably is admittedly evidence that he hasn't been fantastic. It's a lot easier to spin mediocrity into a failure than it is to spin brilliance into a failure. Either way, I don't think he's been anywhere near as bad as the media likes to portray him. The consistently negative reporting, including extra weight assigned to anti-Bush headlines, is pretty clear evidence of that bias, despite it's guise of "plausible deniability."

Just some thoughts.

Dan