and yet, somehow, kid's grow up and are fine.

I'm getting more than a little worn on the hypersensitivity of kids and parents alike.

why did i put an apostrophe s after kid

Well no, these kids haven't grown up yet, and are not necessarily fine. This exposure is getting worse all the time, so the people who have grown up into "fine" adults were not exposed to this level of chemicals. That's kind of the point of the story.

Maybe you're cool with using your children as guinea pigs to test the tolerance of our species to various toxic chemicals, but most people aren't.

Colbert is big, but he's got a long way to go to become the King of All Media.

Some schmo with a half hour show on a third rate cable channel is no comparison to the real King, Howard Allen Stern.

exposure is getting worse all the time? or we are just getting better at catch exposure? I'm tired of qualitative analysis of health problems and I am tired of people trying to protect children from everything that can cause possible health harm.

Did you read the article? Their levels of exposure were seven times those of their parents.

I'm all for children being exposed to germs and bacteria, building up good immune systems, etc. Flame retardants? Not so much.

Perhaps these sensitive parents should put their precious little issue into homemade natural pajamas, instead of the Chinese variety, saturated in flame retarding goo, mandated by some government doofitude.

7 times? So what? Does the child have a thyroid problem. Do people children with similar levels of the flame retardant develop thyroid problems?

Again, I am tired of alarmist "think of the children" crap. Let God sort out the children.

Corporate America thanks you for your apathy.

I thank Corporate America for giving me money on investments made.

"As for waiting for a downturn, Grossman said, 'that may never happen.'"

what a bunch of crap. real estate doesn't always go up, and believe it or not, stagnation of real estate prices is a downturn because other asset classes might go up at the same time of stagnation.

whata dumb article on condos.

Downtown population growing to 30000 out of a total Seattle population of what, 580000? Total Seattle population growth rates of 2 or 4 % is not very much. It's just that here, any change at all in the existing situation is viewed with fright, horror and paranoia.

The fact is in a fe decades we will be adding 350,000 popullation to Seattle alone, and yes, most of them are going to be in multifamily buildings and town houses etc. (not just in downtown but all over Seattle) because the single family home zones just ain't got no more land.

Colbert is pretty big these days.

The number one best seller at Hudson News, that chain newstand at several airports, is Colbert's I Am America! (And So Can You!). I'm guessing that reflects bestsellers in bigger chains.

Interesting. The thyroid is getting the bad end of the stick with these chemicals... Wonder why we are having an obesity epidemic in America when our thyroids are being bogged down by too many chemicals... Hmmmm. No. Can't possibly be related. And all that ADD and autism being on the rise - probably just another unrelated thing.

We test everything else on animals first to see if it will affect us. Now we are going to ignore the results that rats are negatively affected by these chemicals and pretend it won't affect humans? Sounds reasonable. Not.

That Zombie Walk was slightly amusing, but mostly annoying. I crossed the street so I wouldn't have to walk through them; sometimes I just don't feel like being moaned at by strangers. I went into Starbucks and one of the baristas was also not a fan - the zombies had smeared fake blood all over the window, and he was going to have to clean it up. That's pretty inconsiderate. I still like zombie movies, but I think the whole zombie "culture" thing is sort of... done. Not quite to the point of pirates, but getting there.

@Bellevue Ave: I agree with you that plenty of people are raising some crazy "protect the children" alarms, but I dont think its the case with this.

We may not know for a while what all the chemicals are doing, but honestly there have been such large rises in childhood problems there has to be a reason. All the chemicals around us do impact us, and children are especially at risk. At the very least, there needs to be some better regulation for what chemical levels products can have until we know for sure(remember it wasnt so long ago that lead was in everything...). Maybe Golob can lead us to more studies in this area?

I believe that parents should think before they put their kids in some cheap ass clothing, feed their kids garbage food (fast food, processed food), and buy cheap furniture. I mean come on, you get what you pay for. Once again though, this shows that money will keep the rich more healthy and productive and the poor with suffer.

@Bellevue Ave: I agree with you that plenty of people are raising some crazy "protect the children" alarms, but I dont think its the case with this.

We may not know for a while what all the chemicals are doing, but honestly there have been such large rises in childhood problems there has to be a reason. All the chemicals around us do impact us, and children are especially at risk. At the very least, there needs to be some better regulation for what chemical levels products can have until we know for sure(remember it wasnt so long ago that lead was in everything...). Maybe Golob can lead us to more studies in this area?

I believe that parents should think before they put their kids in some cheap ass clothing, feed their kids garbage food (fast food, processed food), and buy cheap furniture. I mean come on, you get what you pay for. Once again though, this shows that money will keep the rich more healthy and productive and the poor with suffer.

Damn double post! Fie on you!

you raise enough alarms, enough times and I tune them out. I'm actually pulling for the kids to get thyroid problems; it'll seperate wheat from the chaff.

oh, and I'd let pharma take care of thyroid problems. Biotech/Pharma = loot.

My child's third eye is developing quite nicely, thank you. We should all consider adding more edible polystyrenes to our diet.