>Even skeptical looks at recent polling shows [the TP] has traction
>among millions of people.
BFD. So does Sponge Bob, March Madness, pr0n, Pink's Hot Dogs, and this play by Mark Buehrle:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/jon_heyman/04/06/buehrle.opening.day/
Click on the video. It's really something else.