Not sure what is causing this.
I tested this on my W7 computer at home in Chrome, FF, and IE, with no issues. I have also looked it up on my Droid, still no issues.
I’m at work on a XP machine, and this is how it displays in Chrome:

It displays fine on my XP machine in FF and IE.
Any clues?
Edit: Page upon request: http://www.terrencebowman.com (Still in development, obviously)
Chrome 21, Windows XP:
it seems fine to me.
EDIT: It is an antialiasing “issue”. When using standard antialiasing (Cleartype off), the page looks the same as in your screenshot (Chrome and IE6, IE7, IE8). IE9 and IE10 browsers completely ignore system-wide antialiasing setting and force cleartype on, so it’s the reason you don’t see corrupted text on your machine.
font-size: 17px with cleartype off:
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);on your p tags.This forces Chrome to render the tag (incl. text, transitions) with GPU.
PS: be careful, translateZ is sometimes buggy, don’t use it on a Mac when not necessary