coca-cola's diet coke with sodium benzoate may cause parkinson's and cirrhosis

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Not that I am a fan of the slow, inexorable erosion of our Constitutionally protected freedoms or Rosie O’Donnell, but I am a fan of calling bullshit, bullshit. And lately, there’s been more bull feces flying around than at a rodeo after a dysentery outbreak. So in that pursuit, I offer Rosie’s list of offenses perpetrated by the Bush Administration that Conservatives didn’t seem to mind:

When I was a kid, we drove cars that ran on gasoline, I shit you not.

Finally, someone has figured out a way to put electric cars on the road fast, and en masse. From an article in Wired Magazine, this guy, Agassi, (no relation to the tennis player, I presume) is setting the whole system up in Israel right now in cahoots with automaker, Renault. The company's called Better Place, and its idea is based on the cellphone business model where you subsidize the cost of the car, and then charge people only for the cost of the electricity they use (kinda like buying "minutes").

Helpful customer service reps almost make up for AT&T's vile, corporate policies (almost).

I'm old enough to remember a time when there was only one phone company—we called it the phone company. And while the company didn't have any competition, affordable rates or spark of innovation, it did possess a little thing called customer service. You could call Ma Bell for any reason, and in no time at all, a nice man drove up and fixed "your" phone in a jiffy, without charge. Those were the halcyon days of telecommunications. And the other day, I saw a glimmer of it again. Albeit, briefly.

Bill Gates gives Society back some of the money he illegally bilked from Society, gets sainted.

Mr. Gates is finally leaving Microsoft to dedicate the majority of his remaining years curing malaria and doling out charitable grants through the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, the wealthiest foundation in the world. Thanks to illegal, backroom dealings and extortion, Bill built Microsoft from a small software company into a full-fledged monopoly in just 20 short years. During that time, Microsoft made workers pull 80-hour weeks, categorized them as "temporary" and "freelance" to avoid paying medical benefits, and threatened critical employees with lawsuits if they tried to leave. But that's not why I'm mad.

The dangers of finding your Doppelgänger.

Recently, I set up a nifty GoogleAlert to notify me by email, anytime my name appeared on The Interwebs—seemed like a good idea at the time. But then, so did inventing the internal-combustion engine and look at how well that turned out. Unfortunately, there's another guy with the same name who lives in the same town—a curious coincidence, to be sure. As a result, I get an email every time either of our names appear on the web. But it gets worse...

Coca-Cola to stop giving children Parkinson’s disease, liver damage.

Blog | 05.27.08 | By thecroz

In response to my earlier blog post about the dangers of Diet Coke—or more realistically, recent charges that Sodium Benzoate is altering the DNA of children—the Coca-Cola Company has finally decided to remove this "taste-protecting" substance from all their sodas, including Fanta, Dr. Pepper, Sprite and Diet Coke (although not regular Coke). Turns out that E211, as it's known, turns off certain genes in developing children, potentially leading to Parkinson's and cirrhosis of the liver.

Thanks, mega-global-beverage-corp! How long have you been sitting on THAT information? Hey, you only introduced Diet Coke in 1985—it's not as if twenty-three years is sufficient time to test an edible product that you're shipping all over the globe, is it?

Actually, yes it is.

Way to go, rocket scientists.

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