Therapy

After two days of gloomy news and predictions, this helped. Scroll to the middle part about Bush. Referring to a complicated figure from an instrument rating exam, this pilot writes:

What should be the approximate elapsed time from the BOSEMAN (BZN) VOR to the DUBOIS (DBS) VORTAC if the wind is 24 knots from 260 degrees and your intended True Air Speed is 185 knots? (The magnetic variation is 17deg. E)
A. 33 minutes

B. 37 minutes

C. 39 minutes
(It’s C., obviously)
If he had been a civilian rather than military pilot, Dubya would have had to have passed 60 questions like this with at least 70% correct. Questions on weather, radio communications, mechanical systems, aerodynamics, pilot physiology, airspace, navigation and a hundred other things. But, since he was military, he also had to know how to operate that primitive in-flight radar, plus weapons systems, rules of engagement, electronic warfare, hydraulics, fuel systems…it goes on and on.

Read that whole section.

UPDATE: More therapeutic items. Here. Here (Steele to RNC? Or HUD?) And Bush still on offense, contrary to some.