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05-09-2012, 06:13 AM

stillkit

Location: Texas

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Excellent light-hearted essay on the so-called "epidemic" and the scare tactics driving the response to it:

The Tennessean Scaremongers about the Obesity Epidemic | Pith in the Wind

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