Underachievement

I discovered something today that I had not previously come across in years' worth of news articles about the war in Iraq: I am almost the same age as Muqtada al-Sadr. All this time I had pictured him as a 50-something cleric, but it turns out that, if Time magazine is to be trusted, fewer than two years separate us. And yet, to the best of my knowledge, I have never been so much as even a petty office-supplies despot. I suppose I can cross 'maniacally fervid leadership' off my list of potential career moves.