A bizarre line in George Will's column today, about anger overtaking reason in American life:
Under the headline "San Franciscans Hurl Their Rage at Parking Patrol," the New York Times recently described the verbal abuse and physical violence -- there were 28 attacks in 2006 -- inflicted on parking enforcement officers in a city that has a surplus of liberalism and a shortage of parking places. Parking is so difficult that George Anderson, a mental health expert, has stopped holding lectures there because his audiences arrive seething about their parking frustrations. Anderson represents the American Association of Anger Management Providers.Uh, isn't it possible that the reason people at Anderson 's lectures are so angry is that... he's an anger management specialist, and therefore angry people are interested in seeing him? This isn't to say that people in San Fran aren't barking mad- lots of them are- but still. Posted by Stephen Silver at March 27, 2007 05:30 PM