John Van Pelt

The Reluctance of Off-Brand Cereal Box Manufacturers to Offend Home-Schooled Religious Fundamentalists, as a Parable for the Dumbing Down of America

It looked promising at first. “Do You Know Why…?” The eternal question of philosophers and scientists. Why does your hair turn gray? (Pigment cells die in the follicle.) Why do your feet fall asleep? (Compressed nerves.) Why hiccups? (Diaphragm irritated.) You could ask more “why” questions about each of these answers, but that would be …

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