The Boston Globe, August 19th, 1999
Rage is all the rage now. Society has found the perfect buzzword for what in another culture and time would simply be called rudeness. But the American propensity to psychoanalyze itself and explain aberrant behavior by affixing a label to it has added the ridiculous terms "road rage" and "air rage" to the lexicon. A person is no longer just plain irresponsible behind the wheel or acting like a jerk on an airplane -- he or she is a victim of the ever-so-stressful system and is suffering from a "syndrome." It's traffic jams, honking horns, hand signals from the other guy, and the pace of life i...
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