Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer recently signed SB1070, also known by the cheerful misnomer "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act".
But in its confidence and sweep, the vast timescale, its humane standpoint and its confident world-view, it is something more than a science book: it is an epic history by an optimist who can list his reasons to be cheerful and support them with persuasive instances.
Rather than defending a position of independence within the administration, Mr. Lee's successor, Charles Fried, told the Senate that "it would be peevish and inappropriate for the solicitor general to be anything but cheerful" while supporting the views and interests of the president who appointed him.
The sheer misjudged awfulness of invoking the fallen of the Great War in support of cheerful smut, the vulgarly ersatz compassion among heritage-style suffering on the Home Front - it made me want to burn my ration card.
My family, a mostly cheerful bunch, doesn't necessarily support my habit, though they don't actively oppose it, either.
At the end of 2009 she died of cancer, and he missed the support of her cheerful, vigorous common sense.
"I see him here every day; he's always so cheerful and I want to support him," another customer, 66-year-old artist Agalese, explains as she signs the petition.
And a greater danger lurks: the possibility that the publicity surrounding these cheerful givers might further diminish public support for government funding of science.
"Rising house prices may make people feel cheerful and more prosperous, thereby supporting household spending," he warned.
Clearly it depends on whether they become old and frail at the same age as before and just limp on for much longer, or if the extra years are hale and hearty ones.Most of the evidence supports the more cheerful view.
