The FDA has approved the use of aspartame as an ingredient in over 9,000 food products, which in and of itself is not news.

What is news, however, is that these 9,000 products do not have to list aspartame as an ingredient in the product. So, you can buy something, after having read the label which gives no indication aspartame is in the product, and you are buying a product with aspartame in it.

Additionally, aspartame is an excellent preservative because when it breaks down, it turns into formaldehyde.

It is not "life" that will kill you. It is the food manufacturers who are adulterating what we eat who are endangering us.

This whole Jody Foster/Nicole Kidman thing is an excuse for Hollywood to produce the type of action films they believe are easiest for them to sell across the world.

This means minimal dialogue and lots of violence and explosions. Dubbing is expensive and audiences generally don't like subtitles. Also, images of violence are understood across all cultures. The target market is men between the ages of 12 and 28 whether they want to be the target market or not and whether or not they really like violence and explosions.

Hollywood has decided a certain type of movie is most cost-effective and is looking for a justification to make live-action cartoons instead of films.

This is all about normalizing the police state.

Yes. Celebrities do get special treatment. But we are seeing a lot of this. Nicole Richie doing 82 minutes in jail. Paris Hilton, sentenced to several weeks in jail, while ultimately doing less time. Britney Spears losing visitation rights with her kids. Ellen De Generes engaged in this puppy drama where the dog she gave to her hairdresser was taken by SWAT cops from the arms of a a little crying child because she was 11 years old and the head of the shelter thought small dogs can't be in families unless all the children are over the age of 14.

And people are buying it. Posting things like "she should have asked permission," "we have to follow the rules," well of course the police can take the dog, the child was 11."

I understand people need to think before they act and act wisely. And of course we should treat animals better in this country.

But a thug class is developing that is pushing us around for violating infractions of multitudinous rules.

It looks Adobe Photoshopped.

Um. Is too.

Who cares if you ruined your karma.

Just DON'T tell your wife.

This reminds me of the Bill Hicks routine where he rails against marketers. "You make sick, violent crap that is poisoning our world, kill yourselves."

So we get a movie about a woman who shoots her lover and then has sex with him while he is dying?

Didn't some of the decadent ancient Romans get off on having sex with a person whose throat they had just slit? But, oh how 18th century, the bohemian mistress uses a gun.

Assassinating people is not necessary to "maintain the balance in the world."

This is just more violent corporate-media crap designed to poison our world.

I just have one question: How can a blow job lead to a quarrel? Especially four times?

This makes me glad I listen to classical music . . .

Why didn't the people in the Tharu village come up with this idea on their own? It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to put 2+2 together like this and come up with this idea to save their daughters from slavery. It will be interesting to see if they fall back to their default position of selling their daughters into slavery in a few years. Then another Westerner can come along and save them from themselves again.

Tomreedtoon:

The reason why some women are "attracted" (if that is even the right word) to bad boys is because they mistakenly think someone that badass can protect them. These women don't realize such men will actually turn around and hurt them. It is a psychological affliction and normal women do not share an interest in or a desire for a rapist.

Promiscuity disguised as women's liberation.

To Xvandadu Hutman:

You are watching a corporate video.

This church sign's meaning could be misconstrued to apply to men and boys who kiss a girl. While the intent is to target a recent popular song about a girl kissing another girl, this message is just one more example of the religious right's demonization of female sexuality.

Boy am I glad I gave up watching television. It is so obviously designed to turn us into morons.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but did Cary Tennis advise that the answer to this person's plight is to go to graduate school?

At the age of 27, the individual asking for advice should start living, not getting in more debt and spending three additional years in college.

This didn't need to happen. The original 28 survivors expected that the would be rescued quickly and squandered their resources in the first few critical days of their ordeal. They ate and drank freely from the plane's supplies. They didn't ration the food and waited too long to conserve water and to keep themselves warm. By the time they realized what they needed to do, it was too late and they had to resort to cannibalism. Their upper-middle class backgrounds did not provide them with the basic survival skills need to survive an emergency.

Most people die withing the first 24-48 hours of an emergency. They do not conserve their physical energy or keep themselves warm; and engage in other wasteful actions. They refuse to face the seriousness of their situation and thoughtlessly consume the available food and water before the physical reality of their situation sinks in. We can all learn from this and thank God these people made it out alive to have 100 descendants.

I guess we are all going to have to learn how to use nature's herbal pharmacy to make our own birth control pills.