Thursday, November 08, 2007

whiplash

Today I learned three things, and I'm going to take a bad news first approach.

In very upsetting news, there's a moldy apartment building here in Tucson that is making grown-ups sick, but it's killing babies and dogs. They're dead, and when the tenants took the apartment owners to court, the judge threw out the case and fined the lawyer. My understanding is that that's what happens when you try to do something about a moldy building that you don't own, so the owners of moldy buildings are free to keep killing people until the medical community does a better job of understanding environmental illness.

Onward to the regular news: The New York Times reported this morning that deodorant and antiperspirant products are overused; people don't need to cover up their pheromones or clog their pores unless they have extremely stressful jobs or are part of the less than 5% of the population who sweats excessively. The New York Times said it, so I'm going to sit right here and wait for the collapse of the $2.3 billion underarm maintenance industry.

In weird news, we have more toxic chemicals, but I think we can get away with just giving you the headline of the day from the San Francisco Chronicle: Not all butt plugs should glow in the dark.

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