as the article says: "Such puzzles show why social science is not for amateurs." methinks Will should have taken his own advise.<br><br>so there's a correlation between people that self-identify as conservative and self-identify as "very happy". Whatever.
<br><br>i'll take an aphorism over a press release about a poll result any day...a couple come to mind:<br><br>"ignorance is bliss"<br><br>"the average man lives a life of quiet desperation" <br><br>I suspect "conservatives" are more quiet about their desperation than "liberals"
<br><br>-- adam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wojtek Sokolowski</b> <<a href="mailto:sokol@jhu.edu">sokol@jhu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202</a><br>012.html?referrer=emailarticle<br><br>It figures. Guilt tripping and malcontentedness seem to be pre-requistes
<br>for being on the left. Little wonder that some folks (like Horowitz or<br>Hitch) get tired of all this negativism after a while and jump the ship ;)<br><br>Wojtek<br><br><br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">
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