I felt really good last Tuesday. We got Qusay and Uday, and the Eiffel Tower caught fire. Now my betters tell me that feeling good was bad because I was exercising "uncertainty avoidance" and seeking "cognitive closure" on Q and U. Maybe I felt good because of the "terror management" mechanism in my head. Clearly, I have severe symptoms of conservatism, or what I should be calling the conservative psychological pathology. Just ask the experts at U.C. Berkeley. Does your fear of terrorism cause you to feel aggressive toward, say, certain Middle Eastern nations? Do you shun and even wish...