After years of swallowing her anger and riding with the punches, Horne was able to ascend to a vantage point in her life where she could finally say: "My identity is very clear to me now.
Motivated by fear and anger, she began riding an exercise bike, walking on a treadmill, lifting weights at a gym and eating only 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day, mostly lean meat with plenty of vegetables and fruit.
Becoming blunted means accepting that talk of injuries, abuse, children and adults dying, lives ridden by poverty, anger, powerlessness and distress are the norm.
Yet even Mr. Geithner of late has been moving toward a tougher stance on Wall Street, in part out of anger that big banks, having ridden a taxpayer bailout back to comfortable profitability, are now rewarding themselves with big bonuses and fighting harder in Congress against the administration's initiative to tighten regulation of the financial system.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have ridden the short-term anger to renewed popularity.
Or, he continued, can result in "desperate people doing desperate things," like the extreme nationalism of Greece's neo-fascist party Golden Dawn, which has ridden a tide of anger against immigrants and a worsening economy.
Gayle McLaughlin, rode the anger into City Hall in 2006.
For the most part, careful Arab governments have monitored the anger and tried to ride it.
"On the one hand there is a failed political class, on the other demagogues who ride on anger".
But fighting pessimism is a nobler task for a political leader than trying to harness and ride voter anger, and less likely to end in tears.
Now that voters have realised that was untrue, cock-a-hoop Republicans hope to ride their anger all the way to the mid-terms.Mr Obama ends 2013 in a bad place.
