>[It seems that the US is not the land of the pusillanimous after
>all. Sure, Americans are willing to put up with illegal wars,
>gutted social programs, a rotting economy and regressive taxation,
>but there *is* a limit to the amount of shit they will eat! Get a
>load of the bold, subversive action described here.]
>
>March 15, 2005
>A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances
>By IAN URBINA
Wasn't that a remarkably stupid story? Though it's hard to pick a dumbest graf in such a dumb story, this one's certainly in the running becuase of its almost-explict refusal to think beyond the trivial:
>Some groups are more frustrated than others. In 2002, Harris
>Interactive, a market research group based in Rochester, conducted a
>phone survey called the Daily Hassle Scale that asked 1,010 people
>to rank the aggravations they faced in a typical day. The survey
>found that poor people and African-Americans suffer the most stress
>from the everyday annoyances such as noisy neighbors, telemarketers
>and pressure at work, but it did not explain why.
Doug