Anna's Bloviations

Heh I said I wouldn't complain about the crummy conservatives and I think I have been remarkably good about keeping that promise. I did not say, however, that I wouldn't occasionally provide compelling evidence backed by an exhaustive study by prominent researchers that they [conservatives]really are worth whining about. From the hallowed halls of the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman's School, Stanford University, and the University of Maryland comes this report from four top-gun researchers who have just completed a study of what makes a conservative tick...

What a conservative tick makes:

Fear and aggression
Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
Uncertainty avoidance
Need for cognitive closure
Terror management

The researchers concluded that although conservatives are less "integratively complex" than others, "it doesn't mean that they're simple-minded."

See more: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

BTW, on a completely unrelated matter, do you think this (see link below) is what is meant by the hand of God? Further evidence that being an agnostic is a better bet than being an atheist. You just never know...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030630.html