Paulsen: Is it so hard not to be mean?

“The day Brad Wall retired was the best day of my life.”
That’s one of the first online statements I read shortly after Premier Wall announced he was stepping down from politics. My initial reaction was ‘Wait … what?’ The commenter was married and had two children, yet the best day of his life was when Brad Wall retired? It seemed a sad treatise on the state of his perspective on life.
Of course, social and mainstream media were filled with best wishes and a