Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die... at least according to this wingnut

Pencil it in your calendars, folks, the doomsday cometh tomorrow, June 12th.

On a totally different note, happy 98th birthday to Jacques Cousteau!

Artificial sweeteners

Sugar makes you fat, oh wait now artificial sweeteners make you fat (or at least they made rats fat). Who would have thought that something that occurs naturally in food, although in highly procesessed concentrated form (although we don't actually eat much sugar in the form of cane sugar rather more high fructose corn syrup), would be healthier for you than an artificial chemical developed in a lab.


I think the artificial sweetener/corn industry is watching me, had trouble getting this to post.

FDA gets inked

Or rather they're beginning to study the health effects of getting inked - like answering the question where does the ink go when tattoos fade?