the irish lass

Don't Worry, Be Republican

From the Wapo

The Politics of Fun

Nearly everybody in the greater Washington area agrees this is a fun place to live. But in a town where politics is a participatory sport, who has more fun, Democrats or Republicans?

By a narrow margin, Republicans are this area's fun bunch, according to a recent Washington Post survey.

Six in 10 Republicans said they were satisfied with the way they spent their weekends, compared with half of all Democrats. Meanwhile, a majority of Democrats said they wished they had more fun on weekends, a complaint expressed by fewer than half of all GOP partisans.

/snip/ Political scientist and wit Lee Sigelman of George Washington University, in a study he did a decade ago of national trend data collected over the previous 20 years, discovered that Democrats, on average, didn't live as long as Republicans, were less likely to marry, more likely to divorce if they did get married and more likely to commit suicide.

He also found that Democrats were less likely to say in national public opinion polls that they were "very happy."

"Compared to respectable Americans, i.e. Republicans," Sigelman concluded impishly , "Democrats can be expected to inhabit a Hobbesian state of nature, a world in which life is poor, short, solitary, brutish and nasty."

I used to practice the Politics of Dancing. It was always good for a few votes at a YR Convention.

Hat tip: Slings and Arrows

What A Wiener

From the Washington Times

Kerry hurls wild pitch

By Charles Hurt and Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


BOSTON - John Kerry bounced the ceremonial first pitch during last night's Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway Park, but he said he was just going easy on the National Guard soldier and Iraq war veteran standing in as catcher.
"I held back," Mr. Kerry told reporters early this morning, on the plane ride after the game. "He was very nervous. I tried to lob it gently."

Yeah, sure, he did it on purpose. Whiney Crybaby. Stomps his feet. Bush is not a better athlete than I am. He's not. He's not.



P.S. Wonder what the National Guardsman is thinking, since Kerry announced to the world that he was to whimpish to catch the ball.