Surprise! John Tierney Concludes Conservatives Have the Best Sense of Humor.

I hadn't read much of John Tierney's work since he was exiled to the Science Times pages. In fact, while I do read some cons and neocons, I generally make a point of avoiding reading him as I find most of his arguments to be disingenuous and misleading. But this morning, groggy from waking up at 5:30 to work the polls, I inadvertently read one of his science columns all the way through. One paragraph stuck out at me:

“Conservatives tend to be happier than liberals in general,” said Dr. Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. “A conservative outlook rationalizes social inequality, accepting the world as it is, and making it less of a threat to one’s well-being, whereas a liberal outlook leads to dissatisfaction with the world as it is, and a sense that things need to change before one can be really happy.”

Nothing against my conservative friends, but, really, isn't this another way of saying "ignorance is bliss"?

Happy Election Day, everybody.