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Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:00 AM

Healthy, my ass

Many blacks love big women, but having a rump the size of Buffie the Body's can put women at risk for disease.
By Debra Dickerson

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  • Thursday, June 7, 2007 02:15 PM

    Oh, Copper...

    You dewy eyed innocent, you.

    "...I have always wondered why fast/junk food is not subject to a sin tax like tobacco and alcohol - to me these items basically fit in the same category. Can you imagine if every bag of chips and bottle of soda had a $1 "health tax" on it?"

    We could not allow that to happen, because Newton's Third Law ould then subsequently require that the government subsidize organic broccoli, and then the queer-loving, baby-killing, pinko heathen feminist hippies from California (aka "Osama") would win.

    —-Emily Read -Emily's other letters

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