Pot. Kettle. Saletan to Increase Self-Medication

To understand the mindset of fanatics, closely examine their propaganda. They sound strikingly like hygienists, who seek to "clean" or "sanitize" an environment in order to make it a "healthier" place to live. Fanatics utilize "us vs. them" language to divide the world in a polarized manner between that-which-promotes-health vs. that-which-causes-illness. The actions necessary for "hygiene" and "health" then become logical as well as obvious: Destroy that which causes or encourages disease. To the hygienist, that means destroying germs and their breeding grounds. To the fanatic, that means subjugating, imprisoning, "reeducating," and, if all else fails, destroying "diseased" people.
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Posted by wmd at May 25, 2004 3:57 PM

Islamic psycho-killers offer up daily proof that they are committed to large-scale, scatter-shot murder and mayhem. In a recent speech president Bush said that we can change the world for the better. Isn't it clear who are enemy is here?

Bush, of course!

And don't you forget it.

Posted by Doug Anderson at May 26, 2004 11:16 AM

Taken from MSN Slate posted Aug. 17 2007. Titled
Kick Butt.

Five months ago, a report by a British commission found that the financial health costs of alcohol and tobacco were equal. Tobacco was by far the bigger killer, but when the analysis moved beyond self-destruction to harming others, the annual death toll from alcohol-related car accidents exceeded the toll from secondhand smoke in the workplace.

Smoking isn't good for anyone. I get that, but where does one find figures for the death tolls from second hand smoke in the workplace. I can't find it myself. Is it hidden away and only accessible to those who tout it like Mr.Saletan. As far as I could tell there is not one instance of a doctor, coroner or other medical types ever having signed a death certifacte stating second hand smoke as the cause of death.

Posted by at August 27, 2007 7:12 AM