Portland’s fluoride fight, presumably settled tomorrow, is drawing bemused headshaking from all around the country—even up north in Seattle, where I spent a few minutes this morning talking about fluoride on KIRO-AM (710).

But let’s be honest here. The polling is looking terrible for fluoride. And despite our own personal best attempts to fire people up about why fluoridation makes sense, the “anti” side has always been able to draw on a far deeper reserve of passion and vigor. (And if your mind isn’t made up by now, it’s probably too late. So don’t worry.) So what’s left to discuss? At this point, pretty much the two camps’ respective ELECTION NIGHT parties.

For those who enjoy crashing such things:

CLEAN WATER PORTLAND
On Deck Sports Bar (trivia: where mayoral candidate Max Brumm once toasted his friends and loved ones)
910 NW 14th
Doors open at 7:30

and

HEALTHY KIDS HEALTHY PORTLAND
Curious Comedy Theater (because of the past nine months?)
5225 NE MLK
Doors open at 7

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14 replies on “Fluoride 2013: Let’s Just Start Drinking a Poison We All Agree On (Hint: It’s Alcohol)”

  1. Politics of the election aside, who do you think throws a better party, the keyboardist from the Dandy Warhols or a bunch of dentists?

  5. Isn’t that guy just spamming the same comments over and over? There has got to be rules about that. I guess after tomorrow we wont see that guy anymore.

  6. I wonder precisely how many views on youtube can be attributed to spamming every comment section on the Merc.

    Anyways, thank you for your advocacy on this issue, Portland Mercury. It isn’t over yet, and if fluoride wins you are all invited to a drink of delicious, fluoridated beer on yours truly.

  7. Specifically, the “anti” side has a deeper reserve of skepticism, above all else, which makes sense. As Americans, we’re a little too used to being lied to all the time.
    That said, I still think they’re wrong.

  8. Kiss your pearly whites goodbye, impoverished kiddies! Oh, how we hate you. Oh, how we absolutely loathe you and your fluoride-starved guts.

    Tonight we raise a glass of extra-sugarified Riesling (because all of us anti-fluoridationistas can afford monthly dental visits) to toast to your imminent dental pain while twisting our mustaches and singing our praises to Goddess McCarthy, Hitler, and to our master strategist (and rising star in the Mercury commenting arena), An Inconvenient Tooth.

    Maybe now we can finally get back to working on our real passions: outlawing vaccines, documenting chem-trails, trying to bring back smallpox, unmasking Obama as the Reptilian chancellor of the New World Order he really is, and debunking this ‘global warming’ nonsense that you libs keep harping about.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! HA!

    (Oh, stop your crying, kids, or you’re going to get tears in that 32-oz. Mountain Dew you’re sucking on.)

  10. fluoride is poison. you want it in your water? you’re a fucking idiot.

    an idiot who’s about to have an even lower IQ when it hits the tap.

  12. I tend to lean anti-fluoride, which apparently makes me an idiot. That being said, I’m guessing dental health has more to do with the following factors:

    1st,2nd, and 3rd: diet, dental hygiene, genetics, and, in a distant 4th, whether or not there is fluoride in the water.

    Having a society addicted to sugar and corn syrup, and with criminally unequal access to basic medical care, makes arguing over fluoride seem like a false band-aid solution.

  14. NH3 (ammonia) and HOCl (hypochlorous acid) (and the carbon tetrachloride and other carcinogenic byproducts resulting from this “chloramination”) and NaOH (lye) are all poison, too. And they’re all in Portland’s H2O (another potentially dangerous chemical). Weirdly, I’m going to kind of miss all the screaming this has generated.

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