Well, it’s not because Halloween is over where too many in the neighborhood feel they have to display faux graves, skeletons and spiders on their property!
And, I’m not unhappy because all the hot air advertising surrounding this election is about to vaporize. So too, (hopefully) will the forwarded email messages that spew right- and left-wing diatribe--some so unbelievable that the authors should be candidates for straightjackets.
But not all forwarded email is bad – some actually has the capacity to make me think rather than flinch. Like one entitled “Made in the USA: Spoiled Brats” that came in mis-attributed to David Letterman (but a little research on Snopes revealed it was written way back in November of ‘06 by a very un-comedic Craig Smith). He cites a (7/06) Newsweek poll stating that roughly 2/3rds of Americans are (or were) unhappy. And asks why.
Fast forward two years and a Time magazine poll claims that 85% of us are now unhappy—mostly with the economy, but I don’t personally know of anyone who has taken up “dumpster diving” lately. Craig Smith’s questions as to “why” are still valid. To be sure, it is every American’s unalienable right to feel unhappy, but I would think 90+% of us should feel pretty darn good about things – and 98+% of us could certainly find a great many things for which to be happy and thankful.
Your next five minutes of happiness are hereby provided by Robin Williams in this 1982 performance (courtesy of another forwarded email).
And, I’m not unhappy because all the hot air advertising surrounding this election is about to vaporize. So too, (hopefully) will the forwarded email messages that spew right- and left-wing diatribe--some so unbelievable that the authors should be candidates for straightjackets.
But not all forwarded email is bad – some actually has the capacity to make me think rather than flinch. Like one entitled “Made in the USA: Spoiled Brats” that came in mis-attributed to David Letterman (but a little research on Snopes revealed it was written way back in November of ‘06 by a very un-comedic Craig Smith). He cites a (7/06) Newsweek poll stating that roughly 2/3rds of Americans are (or were) unhappy. And asks why.
Fast forward two years and a Time magazine poll claims that 85% of us are now unhappy—mostly with the economy, but I don’t personally know of anyone who has taken up “dumpster diving” lately. Craig Smith’s questions as to “why” are still valid. To be sure, it is every American’s unalienable right to feel unhappy, but I would think 90+% of us should feel pretty darn good about things – and 98+% of us could certainly find a great many things for which to be happy and thankful.
Your next five minutes of happiness are hereby provided by Robin Williams in this 1982 performance (courtesy of another forwarded email).
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