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