If you're Bush, this is not your best news week.

And it's definitely not the way you would want to lead into tonight's debate, where (gasp) you field questions from THE PEOPLE.

I could/should list all the bad news, with links and act like I'm all topical...up on it. But frankly, it's all out there already. And you probably have read a bunch of it anyway. I won't insult your news-monitoring pedigrees.

Instead, might I suggest before watching tonight's debate, you step outside for a half hour or so? Hopefully you have easy access to some place where nature still has a slight advantage over mankind's assemblies. Let all the accumulated hot air out. Breathe in some of mother nature's prime comodity - serenity.

Then watch the debate.


(I'm flip-flopping. Here's one link: Defective Yeti's amusing observations on the VP debate.)