Thursday's Thrilling Absurdities: Unhappy America, Happy Ireland, and Washington's Bar Returns to the 19th Century

Let’s start with this latest bit of willful mendacity from the New York Times:

So, the US is no longer ranked among the world’s 20 “happiest countries,” huh? And the drop in happiness is attributable to younger people below the age of 30?

Hey, here's a thought: Maybe brainwashing two generations of Americans by the media and our public schools to think that a microscopic rise in the trace element of CO2 in the atmosphere is going to doom them all to a fiery death wasn't the best idea? You think?

My goodness.