I received this email from Walgreens (link, screenshot), making a false claim about the flu vaccine, and it bothered me a lot, so I found their contacts page and wrote ’em! =============== I don’t mind subscribing to Walgreens’ email notices, because you might have a sale or coupon I’m interested…
Found these on the net: I am horrified that the cancer fundraising industry has grown up into an industry in and of itself (in bed with the U.S. government, no less). And it is a complete fraud! How do I know? Because I can name you 5 cures for breast…
I was browsing the English version of Der Spiegel today, and guess what I found! 09/01/2009 (English Version)Investing in Death Betting on US Life Expectancy Proves Risky By Christoph Pauly and Anne Seith in Frankfurt =============== Namely, banks are offering Europeans “financial products” of bundled life insurance policies, that they…
(This was the letter the Wall Street Journal didn’t print, but should have, in response to the WSJ’s bemoaning the public rejection of the hazardous CFL light bulb – archived here, screenshot here 1.1mb.) Nice try by Jeff Ball to try and sell Compact Florescent Light Bulbs to an unwilling…
I am stunned by all these news reports of Bill Gates actually unleashing a swarm of mosquitos on his audience! “Poor people in third world countries shouldn’t be the only ones getting malaria,” he says. What a smug-faced geek!! Most geeks outgrow their social backwardness, but obviously he never did!…
I can’t believe I’ve only JUST discovered Etsy.com! Where HAVE I been??? It’s where artisans of all types and interests hang out their wonderful handmade wares. All unique items you won’t find in Wal-Mart, with far less expensive listing fees, and with far less oppressive “rules” than eBay. So I…
At least not for the long term, because they are doomed to all collapse within 10-20 years. Why? Because pharmaceuticals will be, are being, rendered obsolete. The wonder of the internet is that you can catch a whiff of an affective alternative treatment for some major horror disease on mankind,…
Well, if you’re like me, a lactose intolerant person living in a lactose-heavy cuisine serving society, the odds are good you have a handy bottle of supplemental lactase (Lactaid®) rattling around in your purse or glove compartment, just in case you find yourself away from home when somebody serves you cheese or ice cream. But I no longer carry that rattly little bottle. Now I just reach into the nearest fridge for what I need.
