A superb rant from John Derbyshire at the National Review Online on why conservatives should be gloomy.
Since social democrats like myself are generally supposed to have an optimistic temperament, I guess I should put up some reform proposals. I’ll start with the easiest. Derbyshire says:
The next version of MicroSoft Windows will be even buggier and more counterintuitive than the last. That one you know perfectly well, of course — I don’t know why I bothered to include it
The answer is of course “Get a Mac!”