I posted a complicated post yesterday, so I’ll try to post a simpler one today. Tomorrow I’ll be back to complicated again, as I plan to tackle petroleum products in lotions and make-up, and that may take more than one blog post. But today — cookware. There have been tons of studies done over the [...]

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is produced by milling corn to produce corn starch, then processing the starch into corn syrup, which is almost entirely glucose (which isn’t so bad). They then add enzymes that change some of the glucose into fructose (which is very bad). Regular cane sugar is made of two sugar molecules bound [...]

We don’t go to the movie theater often, but I loved the first ten(ish) books of this series and wanted to see the characters brought to life on the big screen. I’ll list the bad first — Ranger was miscast, big time. Ranger is bigger than life, and he wasn’t all that special in the [...]

Here is yet another story about pollution in China. One of the many reasons our factories moved overseas is because it is so expensive for companies to be responsible from a pollution standpoint, and that’s pretty much a requirement in the US, while not so much in countries like China, India, Mexico, and Pakistan. I’m [...]

When we did it, it was the I600a, and it was the worst part of the process for us — both times. I understand the procedures have changed a great deal, so I’d like to open up the comments today for people to talk about what it took (or is taking) for them to get [...]

The first chart shows the size (in poll numbers) of the previous batches and this batch. Please remember each poll has to stand by itself, you can’t compare numbers from different polls. We can still get an idea of how the sizes of the batches have gone, but you can’t do a direct comparison. I [...]