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POPSThe New Deadly Sins
4. Authenticity. Please do your best to be someone better than who you truly are. Deep down inside we're ravening beasts. This is the meaning of original sin. Everyone's authentic self is horrid. God's message to man has always been, "You can't really be good, but you can fake it. Really." 5. Caring. This takes so much time and effort that it necessarily results in the opposite of doing something. And notice that when someone says, "I care about the war in Iraq," he almost always means, "I want to lose it." Also there's a bullying logic among those who care. I care more about diddledydum than you do. Therefore I'm a better person than you are. Because I'm a better person than you are, I have the right to order you around. And vote for Hillary on November 4th. 6. Opinion. It's the reverse of fact. Listen to NPR or AM Talk Radio if you don't believe me, or, better yet, read the opinion page of the New York Times. (I'm talking about you, Paul Krugman.) Some people have facts, the
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POPSThe Ghost of Lawrence Welk
"Stop the bubble machine." It takes an amateur sometimes to sense a concept in their soul without a bunch of technical knowledge to get in the way and cloud a person's insights. There just seemed something fake, artificial "built on sand" about the tech and housing markets. And to fit the evolving puzzle, the next piece had to be global in scale; had to have emotional and convincing sponsorship; and had to step up the stakes in terms of a sense of necessity if not desperation -- and that piece -- that new bubble -- is YOU GUESSED IT -- GLOBAL WARMING. If you haven't been suspicious of the promotion of this thing your head is....well, you've been played. Or something. The growth of the tech industry was not the way business grows in a healthy manner; people's squandering of every new dollar of their wildly inflated, on-loan home equity was as self-destructive as a cocaine addict blowin' the month's pay in one night; and -- NOW -- the corporate world being in an unnatural perverse int
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