bias alert and a headline

Ok, so on The View, or maybe the Today Show, either of which I would watch if you paid me, although either one would probably do bad things to my blood pressure, they said that hair dye increases the risk of lymphoma. Apparently a new study reports an increase in risk of 1.19%, so that instead of 13.6 women in 100,000 getting lymphoma, 17 would.

So that's not a very big increase. Most people will be able to dye their hair until they end up drooling in a nursing home and not develop lymphoma. The thing is, any one of the women who does get lymphoma and dyed her hair will very likely feel guilt and remorse for giving herself cancer over something like hair color, which when you're sick, seems kind of irrelevant.

It's better not to get sick, but if you do get sick, it's much better if you don't have a big stick to beat yourself up with. I'm just sayin'.

Ok, since that was sort of serious, I have a headline here that shouldn't be funny, but it is:

Fremont ham store robbed at gunpoint