Living Large
Dave Price
Great video from Drew Carey on how life keeps getting better for Americans. Even with all its challenges, this truly is a Platinum Age, and tomorrow will be better yet.
Drew blames the media for creating these images of doom and gloom, and he's right, but it's important to remember news is always going to skew negative. This is not because news programs want to bum everyone out, but because humans have (not surprisingly) evolved a strong information-seeking preference for bad news over good, so the news media give us what we want (else we would watch their competitors).
The survival value of such a preference for bad news for early humans in a very hostile prehistoric world is probably self-evident enough to need no explanation.
General rule:
If you are spending more than 25% of your waking hours: (a) worrying/thinking about politics, (b) blogging/emailing about politics, and/or (c) on the internet/computer/t.v
you are probably gloomy!
HankB
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.