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TAN LINE

You know that I am automatically against anything that the social police are for.

I am a life time tanner and, at one time, was even advised by my dermatologist to use a tanning salon for my excema and chronic dermatitis.

I was already using one. She caught me coming out of it when she dropped her kids off at the day care they went to.

I was amazed to find that she thought it 'tanfastic'!

So, I loved reading this in Slate:

The overzealous war on indoor tanning.

You know, here in the desert, inside tanning is used a lot.

We really have no buffer with the sun.

I do it naturally, ten minutes to a side, then into the house.

I do not use any chemicals on my skin.

I have never figured how people could so unquestionably slather themselves with the lotion de jour not knowing shit about the shit they were applying.

And on babies!

One ingredient, PABA, was found to be cancer producing after years of use.

Anyway, some days I am ready to ditch Slate.

Then, it saves itself with something like this public service article.