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The Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that “roller-shoes”, also known as “heelys”, “contributed to about 1,600 emergency room visits last year in the United States.”

Previously the CPSC knew of at least one death because of the shoes.

The new higher estimate is based on a more recent and thorough examination by staff statisticians of data reported to the agency, Wolfson told the AP Wednesday.

The company tried to say that they are no more dangerous than they were 15 months earlier.

That’s reassuring.

Some other links …
If all the people in megachurches across the US were combined, it would be the third largest religious group in the US…

If you exempt a kid from sex ed at school is it “unconstitutional”? Hopefully not if the sex education features strippers.

First it was the mom on the Segue pushing a stroller … now its Mama Board — a skateboard that attaches to the rear axle of any stroller.

The FCC is mandating that retailers start informing purchasers of analog televisions that those televisions will become obsolete (without the purchase of a special set-top box) in 2009.

On Wednesday of this week, I got seven (that’s right, 7!) credit card offers in the mail. In fact, three of them were from companies whom I already have a card with (but only for a short while longer). Hearings are now underway in Congress to help protect consumers from predatory practices in the credit industry.

As “Generation Plastic” graduates from college, hopefully they will look into things like Hasbro getting a big fat check from Visa in order to create a new version of “The Game of Life” where credit card usage is king. It’s so nice that we are teaching and helping kids to have a boatload of debt before they even have an income.

Is it any wonder that we’ve more than 50% of people are working into their 70s?

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