• Bland, faceless, generic pop music.
• Self-consciously catchy pop music.
• The politics of frustration.
• Those horribly catchy J. G. Wentworth television commercials.
• Talk radio.

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Things I Know

• At any given moment, things are neither as good as people say, nor as bad as people think.
• It is easier for me to do things for others than it is for me to do the exact same things for myself. Similarly, it is easier for me to wax enthusiastic about somebody else’s work than it is to trumpet my own accomplishments.
• I am my own harshest critic.
• Every generation sees things as getting worse.
• Language is often used to confuse rather than to communicate.

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