Slog - Comments on The Real Perspective http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective Erica Barnett, let me show you the source of public hysteria and various forms/versions of millennium madness: One: On June 9, 2005, as part of its ongoing series of “Security Updates,” CNN airs a special report titled “Keeping Milk Safe.” Over shots of adorable first-graders sipping from their pint cartons, CNN tells viewers that the farm-to-shelf supply chain is vulnerable at every point, beginning with the cow; with great drama, the report emphasizes the terrifying consequences such tampering could have. Nowhere does CNN mention that in the history of the milk industry, no incident of supply-chain tampering has ever been... Copyright 2008 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:45:56 -0800 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:30:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Your highest risk is from heart disease and stroke.

Period.

So stop eating so much red meat (except today, yum, corned beef!), get some moderate exercise, and (if a guy) have some red wine.

In the end, nobody gets out of here alive.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971355 History Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:48:51 -0800 Comment by unPC So....it's really fun to bicker about hysteria and microcount delegates but ...

What're Obama's and Clinton's positions on this super scary Bear Sterns are all our financial markets about to crumble stuff?

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971356 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971356 History Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:48:52 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Well, I hear Obama is trying to be realistic about it, unPC, but the Stranger doesn't want you to know about that ...

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]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971388 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971388 History Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:54:38 -0800 Comment by linus but the bees are dying
did you hear me?
THE BEES ARE DYING

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Two: Tsunamis are a real enough risk in Washington state; I buckle my Birkenstocks tight every morning in case I need to escape one.

Three: The vectors of lime disease can't get you, IF you never leave your Prius during your visits to the national park.

]]> nbc http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971497 History Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:26:21 -0800 Comment by pragmatic Peter Jennings, you're sorely missed...

]]> pragmatic http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971522 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_real_perspective#c971522 History Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:31:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Lime disease? Or we sailors, then?

I think you mean Lyme disease, @6.

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