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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> You're certainly right about having a point -- I just get irritable
> when anyone brings up naturalness when they're arguing about something
> being safe.

The word "natural" is much abused these days, perhaps most notably in 
processed food marketing, and so much so that natural has less 
original meaning. It has been co-opted by marketers much as the word 
"gay" has been co-opted by the homosexual community.

As an occasional wordsmith I am put off by the misuse of words by 
marketers, politicians, bureaucrats, and even journalists who know 
better. Hence my umbrage at the sensationalist "bubble" applied to a 
historically cyclical real estate market. The bubbles of gum and 
champagne bear small resemblance to a market but are too fun to 
resist. As "war" became the description of choice for political 
causes, bubble-mania is no doubt few screens away. I see an impending 
incoherence bubble.