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  • Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention

    01/10/2009 9:19:49 AM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 160 replies · 3,102+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 01/09/2009 | Joel Stein
    Your kid doesn't have an allergy to nuts. Your kid has a parent who needs to feel special. Your kid also spends recess running and screaming, "No! Stop! Don't rub my head with peanut butter!" Yes, a tiny number of kids have severe peanut allergies that cause anaphylactic shock, and all their teachers should be warned, handed EpiPens and given a really expensive gift at Christmas. But unless you're a character on "Heroes," genes don't mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And genes certainly don't cause 25% of parents...
  • Ron Paul Detractors Still Don't Get It (Mod note: Ronbots not worried about ‘terrorist boogie-men’)

    10/03/2007 7:03:51 AM PDT · by traviskicks · 82 replies · 918+ views
    American Chronicle ^ | 10/3/07 | Szandor Blestman
    <p>So, I’m a Ronbot. According to certain denizens of the web lurking in their shadowy corners of the blogosphere, there are many of us Ronbots out there, but not too many. No, if there were too many if us, if we were more than say one or two percent of the population, then that would shatter the world view of some of these Internet denizens. We are a small Ronbot army, somehow controlled by this mystical deity and granted the magical ability to be able to hijack Internet, phone and other polls meant to give viewers of debates a voice of who won said debate. Come to think of it, according to some pundits, there are only a few of us who are very smart and know how to spam these polls. Ok, ok, I admit it, I’m the only real Ron Paul supporter and I’ve been creating all this hubbub and spam on my old turbo charged Atari 800 computer.</p>