Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Sep 15 2003
But, I Already have My Absentee Ballot
Well, if we thought the road to hell was paved with good intentions, we should have thought that things like this could happen.
posted at: 11:51 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Well, if we thought the road to hell was paved with good intentions, we should have thought that things like this could happen.
posted at: 11:51 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Supplementing Stupidity
I live in a nation where we're still trying to figure out how to stop subsidizing the tobacco growers, and where citizens are getting fatter and fatter, (even though we know that too much fatty food makes us fatter). People in the U.S. spend several billion dollars a year on coffee. And now there's a battle over whether or not to regulate dietary supplements. We (it will be "our" tax money that pays for this, you know) don't need another law. If people can't figure out that they need to research something (Vitamin C, ephedra, black cohosh, aspartame, spinach, sugar cookies) before they put it into their stomach, no bill is going to make them do it. We need to take some responsibility to make informed choices, and if we choose to ingest something anyway, we need to stand up and be adult about it, instead of expecting the government to watch out for us, and instead of expecting to sue the nearest vendor of the offending substance.
posted at: 09:08 | category: /Health and Fitness | link to this entry
I live in a nation where we're still trying to figure out how to stop subsidizing the tobacco growers, and where citizens are getting fatter and fatter, (even though we know that too much fatty food makes us fatter). People in the U.S. spend several billion dollars a year on coffee. And now there's a battle over whether or not to regulate dietary supplements. We (it will be "our" tax money that pays for this, you know) don't need another law. If people can't figure out that they need to research something (Vitamin C, ephedra, black cohosh, aspartame, spinach, sugar cookies) before they put it into their stomach, no bill is going to make them do it. We need to take some responsibility to make informed choices, and if we choose to ingest something anyway, we need to stand up and be adult about it, instead of expecting the government to watch out for us, and instead of expecting to sue the nearest vendor of the offending substance.
posted at: 09:08 | category: /Health and Fitness | link to this entry
