I had received an e-mail entitled "What's All The Fuss?" that I had agreed with 100 percent and posted it here on my site back on August 11, 2005, thinking it had been written by Pamela Foster of Atlanta, Georgia. I have since then found out the real author of the essay was Doug Patten and where it was originally published.
I have removed the article in order to avoid infringing on any copyrights. However, you can click on the link below to read the article in its entirety:
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dpatton/2005/dp_0606p.shtml
I appreciate the people at Snopes.com for their continuing hard work debunking urban legends and doing the research to clarify the origins of various e-mail submissions. Click on the link below to read their findings about the above-listed article.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/foster.asp
