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By: Dave Hitt

Dave Hitt — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:52:03 +0000

Joan, I apologize for taking so long to reply. I just changed the text on this page to let people know I don’t check this area very often.

When nannies talk about death from SHS, all their studies are about cancer and heart attacks. Blaming an asthmatics death on SHS is, at best, disingenuous, and shows how desperate they are.

Let’s assume this case is factual. (And that’s always an assumption when dealing with nannies. They are compulsive liars.) Someone with a known asthmatic reaction to SHS takes a job where she knows she’ll be exposed to it. Then, (surprise!) she’s exposed to it. Duh. She doesn’t deserve sympathy, she deserves a Darwin Award.

By: Joan Sidney Sullivan

Joan Sidney Sullivan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:37:36 +0000

Oops! Left out something important. Article web address is http://www.newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/3312/content.htm
Article title is “Case links woman’s death to environmental tobacco smoke, MSU prof says”
Contact: Ken Rosenman, Medicine: (517)353-1846
rosenman@msu.edu
Myself, I think Dr. of Mechanical Engineering Stanton P. T. Barnum Glantz is inventing again.

By: Joan Sidney Sullivan

Joan Sidney Sullivan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:31:06 +0000

A deranged city councilmember in my little city of La Mesa, CA is trying to initiate a Calabasas style (sidewalks, dining patios, “everywhere there are children”) smoking ban here. I am fighting it. Have been using your “Name Three!” gambit from your well known article. This week one of the anti’s one-upped me. A news release from Michigan State University dated Feb. 7, 2008, claims that there is an authenticated case of death by secondhand smoke. “The case report is published in the February edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.” I can’t get access to that journal. Mr. Hitt, will you please check it out so I can keep on snapping out, “Name Three!”

By: Johnny V

Johnny V — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:11:39 +0000

Thought you would enjoy the new stamp from the US Post office:

http://bogieworks.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/06/bd_stamp.jpg

They photoshopped out the cigarette.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:32:23 +0000

Hi…

A have very recently started listening to your podcast (Quick Hitts Podcast), and I want to give you some feedback… is this a good place to do it? It doesn’t matter I will any way.

I have just (well last night) listed to “It’s the Law”, and you defiantly changed my opinion on something. (does that mean I’ve been Smartenized?)

I live in South Africa, and we call the tax on alcohol and tobacco ‘Sin Tax’, I do not know if it goes by the same name in other places.
This tax will be set during the annual budget.
I am not a smoker, or a drinker, and I have never thought it to be a problem, and even thought it was a good thing, if somebody wants to smoke they must pay for it, the more the better.

You changed my point of view…
Just think, if Tobacco is banned today, within ten years cigarettes will be considered the “Gateway Drug” like marijuana is today. I do not smoke it, but I have never seen it as a gateway drug. a lot of my friends do smoke it and have not gone to anything else.

I think another great example of this is AllOfMP3.com
I’m sure you know the story, if you don’t you can look it up.
Instead of the RIAA suing everybody, why do that not consider things like AllOfMP3 competition?

I use AllOfMP3…

Is it because I want to download for “illegal” websites? NO, if I wanted to do that I would get them from a P2P network.
By using AllOfMP3 I am showing that I am willing to give money to download music.
I cannot use iTMS because it is not available in South Africa. If it was, I would use it. It might cost a little more, but I would pay for that convenience, so all they have to do is make iTMS available for me, and I will stop using AllOfMP3.
The next thing. AllOfMP3 must be making millions of USD a year. Instead of trying to shut them down, the American music publishers should look at it and think, “Gee… these guys are doing something right… lets copy their business model…”

All I’m saying is that if AllOfMP3 is this much of a problem, they must be doing something right…. Why cant a “Legitimate” web site copy them?

Thanks for the podcast…
I have now just added the blog to my RSS Reader, so I will be enjoying that too…

By: Michael Tighe

Michael Tighe — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:28:22 +0000

In defense of Michael Moore. Michael Moore is like a flashlight in a very dark room. You’re not going to see the whole room, but you’ll be able to see certain parts very clearly. Also, wherever the light is shone, cockroaches tend to scatter.

As for unions, I agree with you about 90%. I think unions are great organizations for about five years so they can establish basic rights for workers and then dissolve before anyone figures out how to bilk the system too badly. (Good luck with that.)

Love the blog. Keep it up,
Michael Tighe (Pronounced Tie)