‘Tis the season and I think it’s way overdue to put in a good word for sunny optimism.  It’s been a while since the Golden Turkeys, and I apologize for being offline.  This having to work for a living gets in the way of serious bloviating.  Here is what is bothering me.  The overall tone of the national dialogue as mediated through the mass media seems overly dark and bleak.  The Sunday talk shows and the business press seem to deliver day in and day out an entirely untoward and, in fact, largely data free bias toward pessimistic outcomes and gloom.  I think that’s wrong (so I’m really writing about how stupid and obdurately mule-headed, faux sophisticated pessimism about virtually everything really can be, but ode to that made for an awkward title.)
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