Are you messy? Are you neat? What do you have in your space?

According to this article in Scientific American, your political leanings could be showing in more ways than just with your vote and your words.

I have a kind of messy desk, but it is well-lighted. Music? B. B. King to Beethoven and everything in between. But I also secretly like to iron.

Soooo, whatintheheckisthematterwithme????

But you know what? Maybe there is something to this. I am fiscally conservative, but socially, I could probably be described as progressive, although some would say liberal. Been torn up for months. Even paraded a little of my angst right here in the political forum until I ran away. Still got angst.

Soooo, maybe this does make sense where I am concerned.

Oh, who knows?

But sometimes, it is fun to read psychology stuff ...especially when I should be cleaning off my desk.

Here's the link:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...tical-leanings

Boomer

Boomer. We are twins separated at birth but you are the prettier one. sigh

OK, according to that article, I couldn't be more liberal. All of my friends have seen my office and can attest to that. But I guess that comes as no surprise!

Originally Posted by chelsea24

OK, according to that article, I couldn't be more liberal. All of my friends have seen my office and can attest to that. But I guess that comes as no surprise!

As I sit in my office surrounded by paper and piles I am listening to my Ipod that contains tracks from Joan Baez to The Three Tenors..Ricky Martin to the Dixie Chicks. And a lot of Disco music cause I was a Disco Queen in my younger days.

Oh well....anyone could have guessed.

Well, so far, according to these few posts, the study seems to have some merit. But I do know a couple of highly organized liberals. But they are moderate liberals so maybe that explains it.

I wonder if we will hear from any of our conservative friends here on TOTV.

Depending on how conservative, I bet there are some saying, "GULP!!!! I gotta clean off my desk today before anybody sees it who might have read the study."

You know, for years, I have been told that I was a closet Democrat even though I claimed to be a Republican. Thinking in shades of gray is such a pain sometimes. I thought they could tell from my opinions. Now I know it was just because of my desk at work.

Boomer

You know, for years, I have been told that I was a closet Democrat even though I claimed to be a Republican. Thinking in shades of gray is such a pain sometimes. I thought they could tell from my opinions. Now I know it was just because of my desk at work.

Boomer[/QUOTE]

Dead on. So true.

AND
When you are young you think like a liberal.
When you are old you think like a conservative.
When you are bright, you think in shades of gray.

C'mon, we live in The Villages.

We don't have enough space!

My desk is a mess, but I know exactly where every piece of paper resides. It amazes my husband that I can find something so quickly on that desk. I'm extremely artistic and listen to all kinds of music, (country isn't music! Neither is rap!) and I am open to new ideas. However, I will be the first to admit that I am a Republican. And I'm not a Republican because I am a conservative! I'm Republican because I believe that there economics are a sounder way to run a country.

After reading the article, I'm really in a quandry. As I look around my office I see:

1. A Mark Twain quote hanging on the wall (I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him)
2. A Pope John XXIII quote handing on the wall (See everything, Overlook a great deal, Correct a little)
3. A Confucius quote handing on the wall (Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure)
4. Two Immigration Law Handbooks (2007 & 2008)
5. A mousepad with a dragon sitting on a motorcycle
6. Two coffee cups (one actually is clean)
7. An old "Pearls Before Swine" cartoon tacked onto the phone, with Rat quoting a revised nursery rhyme (Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider who sat down beside her, and frightenend Miss Muffet away. Then Muffet went back and checked her gun rack, grabbing a .357. Finding the spider, she sat down beside her, and blew that poor sucker to heaven - the uncut version)
8. An old "Bizarro" cartoon tacked over the phone, showing a teacher talking to 4th graders (Everyone get out a clean piece of paper and your Homeland-Security-Alert-Level-Orange crayon & draw a terrorist hiding somewhere in your house)
9. Selected non-lethal weaponry in various stages of readiness.
10. The top of the desk is fairly clutter-free, but inside the drawers is a fire marshall's nightmare!

I guess that makes me a somewhat liberal Independent with latent conservative tendencies......