Current attitudes about artificial sweeteners reflect a "new understanding" of the chemicals in the same way that Jenny McCarthy reflects a "new understanding" of vaccines. The only good news for consumers is that these chemicals are somewhat more avoidable than vaccines are, and can be avoided if you choose to.

Anyway…

I like "Divorce Season" better anyway. That magical time at around age 35 when married friends start splitting up and becoming fun and crazy again.

My 14 year old neice is a huge gardasil promoter. That's because she watched cervical cancer kill her mom when she was 12. She nursed her mother for four years, as the cancer slowly took everything. She's the only teenager I know who knows how to administer morphine via injection and change an adult diaper. Why didn't…

Your headline seems rather misleading. Perhaps you meant to say "Not as controversial as expected" which implies that it's still perhaps controversial. The phrase "not so controversial after all" is generally used to mean that it's NOT controversial.

The problem with shows like this is that it greatly inflates the perception of risk by giving "balanced" and "equal" time to each "side." Whether or not Couric intends to, by giving equal time to people who believe (possibly incorrectly) that their child died from a vaccine to a position that says "this is totally the…

I’m going to be my usual bitchy self here and say:

As a rape survivor, I'd just like to point that I don't "relive it every fucking day," and that I think on balance I'd strongly prefer being a rape survivor to being a... murder survivor. :/

I just want to take a quick poll...how many of you recall the definition of consent and the importance of establishing it, being at all mentioned and discussed in your sexual education courses in public school?

"...the most heinous crime imaginable..."

That's not a Zombie Dildo.

Your disparaging comment is like bad medicine. You are now wanted, dead or alive. Have a nice day.

I concur that it wasn't a parody per se, but the Beasties have noted that much of the themes on Licensed to Ill were intended to be ironic, and that's obvious from their outlandish videos. Those were parodies of bro culture before bro culture even had a name. It's not like the Beasties were originally mega-misogynists…

Nope. If it's commercial, it isn't "fair use".

Plain and simple? It's an advertisement, meaning not fair use. Try again law school.

You don't know what you're talking about. Making a song parody for the sake of parody, even if you're going to make money off the song, can be fair use. Creating a parody to advertise a product removes it from fair use. There's plenty of precedent on the issue.

Uhm.. most people don't apoligise repeatedly for a parody and refuse to have their parodies replicated on new and greatest hits CDs. No, it wasnt a parody. Theyve realized that error as time went on.

But in order to qualify for fair use protection, it actually has to be a parody. Simply changing the words and inserting new words does not make it a parody. It has to comment on the work itself and transform it into something else. Therefore, most commercial works could not just rip off someones work unless they were…