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Now, For Pure Bloggers, For Individual People Who Are Just Posting Their Own Thoughts, They Would Still Run The Same Risk Of Saying Something Wrong Or Embarrassing, But They Wouldn't Harm Their Institutions By Doing So.

But By Showing Us Live Coverage Of Every Bad Thing Happening Everywhere In The World, Cable News Makes Life Seem Like It's Just An Endless String Of Disasters - When, For Most People In Most Places Today, Life Is Fairly Good.

I'm Working Seven Days A Week In The Fall. I Couldn't Possibly Keep That Up. This Is Only For The Fall. In The Last Couple Of Years I've Tended To Do Most Of My Serious Writing In The Winter, When There's Nothing Going On With Football.

For What I Wrote That Started This Whole Controversy, I Deserved To Be Criticized, And I Felt Bad About Writing It. I Felt Bad Mainly As A Writer And A Thinker.

Though Environmental Orthodoxy Holds That Third World Deforestation Is Caused By Rapacious Clear-cutters And Ruthless Cattle Barons, Penniless Peasants Seeking Fuel Wood May Be The Greatest Threat To Our Forests.