GEORGE W’S ANGER PROBLEM—AND MINE

There are a lot of similarities between George W. Bush and me. We are about the same age. We have both stopped drinking. Each of us is married and has two children—his are girls, mine boys—and our children are about the same age. We’ve both been married to one woman for about the same amount of time. I’d say we are both type A personalities, although he seems far more of the type than me.

And we both can be angry sons of bitches!

I know this, never having met George, because I recognize in him what I know to be true in myself. But what is different about George’s anger and my own, are the relative levels of danger. He’s got the most powerful army on earth under his command he can do some serious damage. "Serious damage" is of course a euphemism for being able to destroy the world.

There is simply nothing I can do about George’s anger—beyond making this single voice of mine heard. I’ve come to believe that I must find as much peace in myself as I can, as an example so that others might see. For now, I plan to continue spreading peace in this small way. At least the world will have one less angry man...