PROSPERITY IN BUSH'S AMERICA
This article about the top 25 cities to do business in America has an upbeat feel, yet somehow made me a bit sad. It's partly because I dislike cars, preferring public transit, metros and trains and the like, but it seems like the action is moving to places where the transportation economy is dominated by the car. America is so vast, so full of energy and motion, that it intimidates me to think about it.

Still, this sort of confirms my point about Republicans being the party of self-reliance, because you may note that the Midwest, Florida, Atlanta-- the booming parts of the country mostly voted for Bush. In places that are a bit more economically stagnant, where money is likely to be a bit older, sends its children to private schools and hires nannies, places where there is more social polarization, where money feels a bit guilty and lack of money feels a bit resentful-- these are the places that vote Democrat.