Thank goodness we have equal opportunity government that distributes its concern among all living creatures. Not only will it protect you from your own gutterish desires; drugs, gluttony, the flames of lust: but it will also protect the yellow feathered peckerwood — a shy, exotic, and miniscule species, from the BB pellets of the youthful
Hey, remember that blue flu that was going to sweep through America, kill millions, and require martial law and central planning of just about everything? I’m guessing that most everyone has forgotten about it. What a country! The president makes a hysterical speech calling for central planning, billions are spent on preparation and “cures,” the
It could become very difficult to get in the near future, if we see the political class follow up on the latest frenzy: “ Teens turn to cough syrup to get high, Feds say .” “It’s bad that kids are buying cough syrup and using it this way — it’s not good for them,” said John P. Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control
The annual flu frenzy is on, and all its attendent vaccination hysterias, and this year the mania is stepped up by the media’s frothing over the coming pandemic “ bird flu “—a threat that has hoax written all over it. Well, writing in the British Medical Journal , Peter Doshi explains all the many ways in which the CDC and government PR people
Many churches during the season of Lent hold a “hunger banquet” to illustrate the problem of poverty in the developing world. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but does guilt manipulation really solve the problem or does it cause people to grasp for straws or actually favor dangerous policies? Here is the way the banquet works. Everyone pays one
Sometimes the regular news reads just like The Onion , such as this one on the growing controversy about a new liquor drink called Spykes . Apparently many people think that this sweet drink in a nail-polish-style bottle is, gasp, being marketed to young people. Anheuser-Busch says that this is ridiculous, why they’ve done no marketing at all! And
So here is a story about the “infrequent inspections, deficient safety requirements, and low hiring standards” of day care operations around the country. We need federal regulations! Or so says the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. Two questions. Why isn’t is obvious that if any industry can be self-regulating, it
If it does not say US, it is not 100% American catfish, or so says the Catfish Marketing Association, which is just oh so concerned about your health, and also very concerned that that Chinese catfish is about 2/3 cheaper than that raised in Alabama. The CMA was the real power behind the FDA’s decision to ban Chinese catfish imports into the US,
The usual argument about smoking and anti-obesity laws is that people who are sick cost the public money. Time reports on an opposite view: the earlier you die, the cheaper it is for those paying the bills. “The researchers found that from age 20 to 56, obese people racked up the most expensive health costs. But because both the smokers and the
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