Many of you out there use the sweetner Splenda made by Johnson and Johnson, among others. It is touted as being made from real sugar and therefore better than other sweetners, such as Equal or Sweet n' Low. "Made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar" so the ads wizard would have us all believe. This much is true; it is partially made from sugar. ( Read more... )

Wow. It has been a long time. Sorry about that, no excuse. I'll try to write more frequently, but no promises. And I have a new fan and everything. A new book came out called Freakonomics. This book is a novel look at some of the problems concerning modern America from the point of view of an award winning economist and a writer friend. They posit ( Read more... )

Well, there was no entry last night, so tonight will be a twofer to make up for it. Unfortunately, I wish I could say this was going to be a happy entry, but it is not. Two bad things happened recently.
First of all, Colonel David H. Hackworth died May 4 at the age of 74 of a form of cancer related to Agent Blue, a defoliant used with Agent Orange ( Read more... )

For shadow_dancing. She knows why ( Read more... )

I refused to comment on this until it seemed it was all over, and so it seems to be. On Friday, a judge ordered Terry Schiavo's feeding tube removed. This was after months of legal fighting, a law passed by the Florida legislature, that law being ruled unconstitutional, last minute appeals by all sides and an all out media war by both sides. Just ( Read more... )

Yes, I used some basic Latin. Look it up.
Piercing and body modification
Condoms in schools
Tylenol in schools (yes, they're both in the same law)
Drug use
Performing an appendectomy (see section p)
AbortionOne of the above does not belong, and not just for different host for the base webpages. Yes, abortion is the odd man out. These laws are all ( Read more... )