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The Backstreet Boys have been forced to cancel their New York City promotional tour because member Brian Littrell has been diagnosed with the swine flu. The other three members — Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and AJ McLean — have seen a doctor and are not showing any symptoms.

— PopEater

Disease and injury seem to be the only ways to put a stop to these played-out musical acts. Evidently no one ever wakes up one morning and realizes that they’re just too old for this shit . . .

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We got this email from my son’s indoctrination camp (grammatical errors included):

It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that we have a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus . . .

We understand that there a considerable number of students and staff who became ill on the last day of camp or just after returning home. . . .

While getting people sick is not something we want and definitely not something we like, the riches of Christ being shared at camp far outweighs the risk of illness and that we’re praying for all those who are affected that they will be well soon.

God moves in mysterious ways. Like why didn’t He send the swine flu to the Atheist Kids camp?

And I don’t let the camp staff off the hook. Why didn’t they pray before the camp that no one would get swine flu instead of waiting till it was too late and praying for them to get well again?

“It was meant to be,” my wife says, although fortunately our own kid is not sick . . .

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