Mickey Z

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Can you say "inevitable"?

“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...plans to launch a new study in which participating low income families will have their children exposed to toxic pesticides over the course of two years. For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation.”

To read more, please click here.

When I read this, I found myself saying: “But of course they’d do this.”

Similarly, when watching the big NBA brawl in the stands or reading about a hunter in Minnesota who shot five humans...my first reaction was: “I can’t believe this shit doesn’t happen more often.”

More on the “inevitable” front...this from the New York Times:

“The McDonald’s Corporation, the world’s largest restaurant chain, announced yesterday that Charles H. Bell was resigning as chief executive to focus on his battle with cancer, and would be succeeded by James Skinner, the vice chairman. Mr. Bell, 44, who has colorectal cancer, took the chief executive post in April after the death of James R. Cantalupo, who suffered a heart attack while at a McDonald’s convention on April 19.”

Then comes word of a plague of locusts in the holy (sic) land:

Israeli motorcyclists driving through a swarm of locusts in Eilat on Sunday.
(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503877.html)