"Reverse osmosis and sink-top filtering systems remove contaminants from tap water, but also strip out the good stuff, i.e. minerals. This is the advantage of spring water and water from aquifers - it has filtered down through layers of the Earth, absorbing minerals we all need."

I won't go into the differences between the minerals (including arsenic) coming from different aquifiers. But I will point out that many companies producing cheap bottled water out of municipal water supplies purify it to remove nasties like fluoride and chlorine, and then puts back in a set of trace minerals that some people find desirable. As a substitute for soda, I think it is a very good thing.

We have a Reverse Osmosis filter in our house. When we're out of the house, we often buy bottled water to drink. We keep the bottles and fill them up from the house filter for soccer games, trips and lunches. Leaving the labels on make our kids look hip too! We use the bottles till they wear out. I'm not personally concerned about plastic leaching--I'm sure I'm getting a lot worse stuff from plastic outgassing in buildings and vehicle exhaust.

However, natural spring sources of bottled water, as noted by some other folks, are quite evil. The huge amounts extracted dry up local above ground artesian sourced springs, which are quite rare, and return little if anything to local economies. Perrier tried to dry up one of our pristine rivers here in Wisconsin, but voters got the state to stop them.

So if your water is from a municipal system and subject to additional filtering, good on ya! Drink what you want.

It's better for you than soda pop.

Now, before we all start complaining again, I just wanted to point out that each disjointed, non-sequitur panel seems to be originally drawn, without photocopying any elements from one to another.

Isn't that special?

Having given a little credit, would somebody please explain to me what the hell is supposed to be going on? Now the world is about to explode!

What a piece of garbage. The question of whether whites would vote for Barack was answered with a vengeance in Iowa (where he won big) and New Hampshire (where he ran whisker-close in a state that had been all but ceded to the Clintons the week before). You don't get whiter than Iowa nad New Hampshire. Whole lotta us white folks is voting for Obama.

Bringing up this question only does service to the Clinton's corrupt desire to see this contest made into one of race rather than ideas and organizing. The article content (which wasn't bad, just boring since the answer is already obvious) is irrelevent. Team Clinton just wants that racial headline up there.

And Salon and Koppelman delivered.

I wish I was surprised. Instead, I'm just disgusted.

Inkjet printers need to shut themselves down and park the print heads over a seal to keep the ink nozzles from drying out and clogging up. Depending on your model of printer, that either means replacing the print cartridges (Lexmark, Hewlett Packard) or replacing the entire printer if the print heads are built in (Canon, Epson).

Either way, you'll be spending a lot more than $300 a year if you carelessly shut off your printer with a strip instead of a power button (Caviot: Most inkjects will put the heads back in a parked position soon after printing a job, but the delay varies. It isn't worth taking a chance).

Use the power button!

This whole deal is being generated by a website with a single front page and a link to another page that sells teeshirts. Which teeshirts, by the way, have no link to Hillary Clinton on them at all.

Making them nothing more than a generic dirty word item.

If "Noodles" hadn't hung his hand-lettered "I H8 Hillary" sign on the front of his puerile organization, nobody would have given a damn.

So by doing something easy and obnoxious like making up a very basic website and picking Hillary Clinton as the target, this schmoe gets all kinds of attention and links to his site and his teeshirts.

The only thing stupider than the mom's-basement-dwellers who came up with this scam are the hand-wringing do-gooders who are enabling this loser.

All he wants is attention, and $25 bucks for his crappy teeshirt. We should deny him both.

South Carolina is really looking bad, isn't it?

Now we hear whine after whine about how mean old Obama has turned the tables on our Dear Hillary and Bill, and wounded them, and it's so unfair how all the Obama supporters complain so much.

Cluephone ringing up: Obama supporters don't complain so much. There's just a hell of a lot more Obama supporters.

Clinton went low, and Obama stayed on the high road and left her in the mud. Now all she can do is whine about how she was just trying to toughen him up for the General Election.

Well, guess what? Obama learned elections on the streets of Chicago.

He's already plenty tough. Without having to be an asshole at the same time.