Porkademic

Writing from my Blackberry... As I watch my son at soccer practice, I have a nagging feeling I should be in a panic about the latest disaster about to strike the earth: swine flu. Nearly every story on CNN or in the national papers is about the mysterious H1N1 virus. Is the sky falling? A giant asteroid about to strike the earth? What about global warming? The Somali pirate scourge? I've never seen so much fear of a largely non-lethal, statistically insignificant (in the US, anyway) flu virus.

Not that we shouldn't be cautious, of course. I think I'll go wash my hands.
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