I cannot but accept Vonnegut’s definition of a karass, not least because as its inventor, he gets to define it. I am free, however, to recognize other groupings – groupings aside from the karass – that like the karass do not qualify as granfalloons. I found just such an array of groupings when I read Chapter 5 of Snakes in Suits by Babiak and Hare (2006), in which the authors recount the results of their informal observations of people’s reactions to fraudsters they likened to the phony...
