But since Obama's Inauguration, there has been a frightening, wholesale change within the oxymoronic world known as "conservative journalism".
It's frightening to change, especially when you're going out on limb to go after your own unique goals.
Still, facing a struggling global economy, severe income inequality and frightening climate change, many younger people see investing for the greater good not as an option, but as the only way.
Although Canning wrote that the newspaper "delivered on the laughs", Entertainment Weekly Sandra Gonzalez characterized the newspaper subplot was "neither important nor substantive" and was unimpressed with the "random, frightening costume changes", and Reiter said Sue's storyline was one that "felt as tired as secondhand news".
Motivational Speaker Nido Qubein often says, "For the timid, change is frightening, for the comfortable, change is threatening, but for the confident, change is opportunity".
Others said they were just frightened of change.
While not frightened of change per se, I am dismayed by the imposition of a political agenda implemented by hacking away at funding.
As Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, argued in opening Expo, the paradox facing planners is that many people are defending a system they know to be deficient because they are frightened of change.
The realist is a pioneer essential for the evolution of human beings; idealists are frightened by change and use their cleverness to justify the status quo; and the philistines are the easy-going majority, content to substitute custom for conscience.
