{"id":1005,"date":"2006-06-27T18:46:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T23:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/are-you-stupid\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T23:51:58","slug":"are-you-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/are-you-stupid","title":{"rendered":"ARE you stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing my Top Companies profile of GlaxoSmithKline<\/a>, I came across congressional testimony about the acts that animal rights knuckleheads have committed against GSK employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, working on Roche<\/a>‘s profile, I came across some moonbats who think that the avian flu is a hoax meant to enrich Donald Rumsfeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, still think SARS was just a cover-up for the T-virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing my Top Companies profile of GlaxoSmithKline, I came across congressional testimony about the acts that animal rights knuckleheads have committed against GSK employees. Yesterday, working on Roche‘s profile, I came across some moonbats who think that the avian flu is a hoax meant to enrich Donald Rumsfeld. I, on the other hand, still think … <\/p>\n

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