I went to CNN’s website today to make sure that I hadn’t missed any huge news in the past little while. Boy was I wrong! My eye leapt to this majorly important headline: “Study: Materialistic people less liked.” I don’t know what I find more preposterous: the fact that people spent money on a study to tell us something that everyone already knew was true, or that CNN thought that those unimpressive findings were newsworthy. I imagine some CNN staffer had to think, “That’s really fascinating. When people value objects more than personal relationships, it has a negative reaction on the way that they’re viewed by their peers. Who knew? I hope we have room on the front page for this.” Regardless of how it went down, that’s bullshit!

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