(Originally posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 )
A Clutch of New Mind-Bendingly Contrary And Counterintuitive Headlines From Slate.com.
–*Why Humans Don’t Really Need The Sun
–*Are Beautiful People Smarter?
–*Is Hillary the Anti-Hillary?
–*Your Mother Was Right: There Is No Such Thing As a Female Orgasm
–*Only Dumb People Would Buy Food With Money
–*Is George Bush Really A Genius?
–*Was The Iraq War Actually A Brilliant Plan To Go In And Lose On Purpose?
–*Are Serial Killers Actually Friendlier?
–*Did Hillary Plan Her New Hampshire Cry in 1997?
–*Maybe JFK Did Have It Coming
–*Gordon Gekko Was Right: Why Greed Is A Better Long-Term Human Success Trait Than The Sex Drive
–*Are Intelligence, Compassion and Strength Overrated?
–*Are You Stupid If You Use The Dollar To Pay For Things?
–*Are We All Really Just An Illusion in the Mind of Richard Nixon?
–*Do People Become Autistic On Purpose?
–*Is “Hope” Just a Fetish Word For Black People?
–*Are Inbreeding, Banjo-Playing Appalachian Hillbillies Best Fit For Survival?
–*Is Your Depression Just Self-Indulgence?
–*Should We All Try To Be Less Like Einstein and More Like Tyra Banks?
Beauty is Imperfection 
I think Gekko might have been too simplistic about greed, but he did draw the line at profit–which is more than I can say for the bankers, traders, and Wall Street hotshots who contributed to the financial crisis.
Gekko would have sneered at people like Madoff who got rich at the expense of even their own shareholders.