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Laugh On, Fatboy

Julian Sanchez | 5.4.2004 12:13 PM

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Jacob Grier's piece on the USA LOWFAT act is just a parody… for now. As Jacob explains, he used real quotes from anti-obesity activists to put the piece together. Incidentally, I'm starting to think my tombstone is going to read "Coined the term reductio creep." Not sure yet whether that's depressing or not.

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Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.

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