Two comments and a rant. First, I said the other day that I would no longer post names or other identifying information in the letters I publish. If you see a name from now on, it's because the correspondent requested it. Some people are more than happy to have their names published with their letters. I want to accommodate them.
Second, I've begun posting the favorable letters about my Tech Central Station column "Explaining Liberal Anger." I was going to dump all of them into a Word document, clean it up, upload it, and post a link to it—so everyone could read all the wonderful letters I received. But I've decided to post the letters (or some of them) in this blog instead. I'll post one letter a day until I'm caught up. I think you'll agree that the letters are interesting, poignant, and uplifting. My column obviously touched a nerve.
Permit me a rant this fine afternoon, Memorial Day holiday notwithstanding. Is it just me, or are conservatives nicer people than liberals? Liberals strike me as profoundly unhappy, perhaps because (1) they have killed off God, belief in whom consoles people, and (2) they can't persuade their fellow Americans to embrace their redistributive, responsibility-denying, merit-ignoring agenda. This unhappiness makes them restless, frustrated, resentful, ornery, angry, paranoid, hateful, cynical, and mean. Not necessarily in that order.
To my liberal friends: Lighten up! You have only one life to live. That's right: one. The one you have. The one that's underway. If you spend it with a chip on your shoulder, seeing only the bad about our world and not the good, comparing what is to what should be (by your lights) rather than to what could be, you will have wasted all you have; and if you have children, you will have taught them a terrible lesson.