I’m feeling a lot happier these days than I did a few years ago. My low point was 2002-2003, when it was really, really tough to be a Bush critic. Now, for all the frustrations of these waning days of the regime, the skies seem much clearer.
Or that’s why I thought I was feeling happier. Now I learn that it may just be my life cycle.
I always check out what’s new in National Bureau of Economic Research working papers, and a new one, “Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?”, reports that among American men, happiness reaches a minimum at the age of 49, then rises.
I’m 54 right now.
And all that time, I thought it was Bush getting me down …
110 days after I turn 50 George Bush will be leaving office. I am feeling happier already.
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There is no doubt that GWB in so many different ways help to put the bold, italics, capitalization, and exclamation point on the CRISIS! of my (and consequently my partner's) midlives. I can only hope that Bush's departure will bring an eventual clearing to the fog of discontent.
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