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Don't Tase Me, Bro. I Know Exactly How You Feel

Mr. Rodney "Can't We All Just Get Along" King, you've got company.

Meet Andrew Mayer, the attention-seeking John Kerry protester (people bother to protest John Kerry?) who this week achieved your degree of insta-immortality with his deeply eloquent "Don't Tase Me, Bro" screamed to the campus cops at the University of Florida. Oh yeah. We all know what he meant, and that's why "Don't tase me, Bro" is instant tee shirt and bumper sticker material.

People feel they're getting tased all the time. Here's what's tased me this week: Some of the Chinese toys Mattel was shippin' to toddlers were covered in paint with 11% lead, enough, according to NYC's Children's Hospital at Montifiore, to cause "substantial, severe lead poisoning."

Don't tase me, Bro.

There's a new prescription allergy spray advertised on TV and it actually says in small print right on the bottom of the screen words to the effect "We don't know exactly how this works." And you want me spraying this up my nose? And the FDA is OK with this?

Don't tase me, Bro.

There was scant news coverage of the bank run they just had in England. You know, a real life, Depression-style bank run with worried depositors lined up around the block waiting to get their money out. Seems with Britney bombing at the VMAs and OJ getting arrested and all, there was no air time left before the allergy ads came on.

Don't tase me bro.

How about you? Been tased lately?



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