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Sunday, August 28, 2005Another Victory In Store for the Signage Industry?Cicero points to an idiocy that is one part California AG Bill Lockyer's, one part the citizens' of California. At issue, are French fries carcinogenic? Here's a clue: In a universe with entropy, everything's carcinogenic because anything we come in contact with is part of the process that makes our systems ultimately go off the rails. The real question is how carcinogenic. The answer to that is that we don't know. Historically, people didn't live long enough to die from cancer because something went wrong on a larger scale before cellular aging and mutation could take their toll. It amazes me the fuss we make over things that might limit our lives to 75 years while yearning for the good old pre-chemical days when the lifespan was in the 40s. As to this idiocy, there are two parties: Bill Lockyer, the AG, is looking for a high-profile stand up for the people moment while Schwarzenegger's numbers are down. There are any number of problems he could take on instead; there are any number of other times he could have saved us from the perils of French fries. He's an opportunistic idiot. The second party to the idiocy is the folks who support all the "save us from everything" nonsense that is so popular nationwide, but especially in California. One day, I'm taking a camera into a department store so all the non-Californians can see how we waste money and trees in order to shut up so-called consumer advocates: If you go into a Ross, or a Marshall's, or even more upscale places, the landscape is dotted with 5 x 3 signs reading: "Prop. 65 Warning: There are chemicals present that have been determined to be carcinogenic by the State of California" or similar language. Rather than fussing with idiots like Lockyer, some stores have posted the signs on, I kid you not, every other aisle endcap. If Chopra's ideas about attention are right, we're all going to die of cancer out here because you can't go shopping without the word "cancer" being thrummed into your subconscious. Now we're going to teach the kiddies to associate McDonald's with cancer and sell a few more signs? Just what California needs. I wonder how many children with leukemia we could treat with the money spent buying the signs, posting the signs and enforcing their posting. They always want to spend the money for B1 bombers on health insurance for the homeless. If that's a real topic, then it's also high time to think through how much good can't be done because of money wasted on idiotic do-gooder labeling initiatives. By the way, if you read the papers, you know about the French fry thing now. If you don't, you're not likely to read the label at McDonald's either. Either way, Bill Lockyer should shut up and sit down. 
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