I agree about going to DC. I would have loved to go and bring DD, but in the end being home will be a better choice for our family.
I have noticed that our happiness and excitement for Tuesday seems to be directly proportional to the Cons anger and dismay. It's such a shame that they cannot at least have hope for the future.
Didn't you know that have hope was so passe'? No hope for you!
Let the good times roll my friend
As I've become interested in how people think and why, here's some good reading for the morning, there's more at the article, and there are more articles to be had, but this one was most straight forward, I'm glad I don't live out of fear.
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml
By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 22 July 2003 (revised 7/25/03)
BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations?
Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:
* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for cognitive closure
* Terror management
"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.
Assistant Professor Jack Glaser of the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and Visiting Professor Frank Sulloway of UC Berkeley joined lead author, Associate Professor John Jost of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and Professor Arie Kruglanski of the University of Maryland at College Park, to analyze the literature on conservatism.
The psychologists sought patterns among 88 samples, involving 22,818 participants, taken from journal articles, books and conference papers. The material originating from 12 countries included speeches and interviews given by politicians, opinions and verdicts rendered by judges, as well as experimental, field and survey studies.
Researchers help define what makes a political conservative
. I have been afraid that our pipes would freeze here. It's been below zero (-12 right now!) for days.
Holder will make a fine A.G.
Doesn't he know it upsets their delicate sensibilities??
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