Actually it was an article about a very recent study by the Mayo Clinic.

Perhaps it should have been called “Ghostbustresses”??

This is way way up on the list of why we’re in the state we’re in. Probably number one.

That excessive intake of sugar is a cause of obesity and t2 diabetes is right up there with “water is wet”. Did you make a typo? Are you being sarcastic? Because, seriously...

in the same way that alcohol alone doesnt cause alcoholism.

No worries. I’m just all adamant when it comes to this anti-science food hysteria, and also I’m having a baby with an anti-science food hysteric. So there’s that. So I tend to backlash, but we all have to do what works for us.

I don’t think aspartame is even giving you gastric distress. If you’re a diet coke fan, it’s probably the caffeine. Seriously, the trace amounts of aspartame do literally nothing to the body, according to a billion double-blind studies.

Do what works for you, without a doubt, but for other readers of your post, know that the NE Journal of Medicine did a study that disproved a connection between aspartame and headaches.

As long as Food Boob doesn’t get anyone to outlaw diet soda, I’m good. Her zombie army loves saying “even regular soda is better than that toxic concoction”. Sure, Several teaspoons of a substance known to cause obesity and diabetes is much safer than trace amounts of a substance known to cause no harm.

Yup - exactly my daughter’s middle school tales. Any boy who shows up gets a speaking part, and tons of talented girls are in the choir, or left out altogether.

I saw this same thing written in some article not long ago. It’s fallout from US macho culture. Getting into acting, dancing etc as a boy is seen as “half queer”. But fewer hangups about that in UK/Aus. I see it first hand as my 14 yo daughter is hugely into performing arts. And it’s 80+% girls, and most of that small…

Unlikely that a typical street criminal’s parents said, “maybe you should perform crimes.” but if you could go back in time, ala Scrooge, you’d see lots of parental neglect, mixed messages, bad modeling, possibly even physical/verbal abuse.

There are very few Bad Seeds out there - think “We Need to Talk About Kevin”. Most shitheads in the world were warped into shithead-itude by their 18th birthday, through family abuse/neglect.

Most Mass residents only have to drive an hour to collect their bounty. So, yeah, even we have to deal with the nightly racket. In addition to the sounds of distant war from every town having their own little special show (and towns are like half a mile wide in Eastern MA).

Also, it’s not just “morons”.

Right?

I have the choice, easily, of not being near numbnuts with fireworks.

Sure, we should we bother protecting the 11 year old little brother of the pothead teen who bought a bunch of M80’s.

I agree. And yet, being a nervous nellie, if a pilot said “don’t worry - it’s completely safe” or whatever, I’d be all like “why did feel he had to say that? He’s hiding something. He doesn’t want a panic. OMG we’re all going to die screaming!”

If you’re like me, and have GAD (General Anxiety Disorder), the logic of the safety and the philosophy of “letting go” just can’t penetrate the reflexive jitters. The solution is