DON’T WORRY….BE HAPPY (OR AT LEAST NOT ANGRY)…there is a lot of angst in the air these days. From the pandemic, to politics to the economy. You can’t even count on watching “the big game” as a distraction since it might have been cancelled. Some good news, at least for those of us smart enough to live in Oklahoma. On Tuesday, Best Life, a popular quality of life web site, published a list of the “angriest states.” They based their ranking on factors including Wired Magazine’s ranking of states with the most angry and hateful internet postings, trolls, “experts” whatever you want to call them. Everyone has them, nobody likes them but some places have more than others. Best Life also looked at things such as hate crimes and road rage. That we are looking and talking about states being angry may not seem like good news until you logically conclude, you smart Oklahoman you, that to rank states as to who was the angriest, you also had to figure who was the least angry.
By now, you surely have guessed that Oklahoma was the least angry state in the ranking…by a wide margin. Clever that you are, you may think that’s because of the wide use of medical marijuana. This is likely not the case, however, since Colorado, the earliest adapter, was listed as the second angriest state and Washington, who legalized cannabis when Colorado did was also in the top ten angriest. It also wasn’t political as the most angry state, Alabama, is quite red but seven of the top ten states were blue. It wasn’t geographic as all areas were equally represented. PCDA concludes that any state that has Ponca City in it must be the happiest (okay…least angry). So keep being tolerant of each other, smile, be nice and look for the good things in life. We’re in a pretty good place and we’ll get through this current upheaval moving Forward Together.
