Safari 5 is messing up text :(

I upgraded from Safari 4 to 5. Now a lot of text is garbled. Even MobileMe's login page is partially unreadable. Please help!!!

Now a lot of text is garbled.
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I am running OSX 10.10.2 and Safari 8.03
Some sites I visit do not display text at all.
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Okay, never mind. It happened again.
This time I restarted my computer and launched Safari and got the exact same behavior. So, I launched Snapz Pro X and made a movie of the weirdness to show you all. Please watch this:
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Here is a screenshot of what I am talking about:
http://i39.tinypic.com/1zmh26o.png
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