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Perhaps you’d prefer mediocrity for the blogs that you frequent?

Frankly, mjw, I don’t care. I don’t have all the time in the world to read every post in this blog and pick them apart for issues that are so minor that one wonders why one bothers with them in the first place. However for you, it looks like time is something that you have in abundance.

Also keep in mind that the guest blogger does not get paid for his/her posts, is, unlike Robert, not a trained journalist, is expressing how he/she feels about a certain issue while not thinking about the reaction he/she will get from the commentators in regards to something that he/she is posting. Now is that so wrong? I think not. Besides if one does not like a certain post, one doesn’t have to read and comment on it. Unless of course one has nothing better to do during a holiday evening, but to sit down at the computer and pick apart guest blogger posts.

Get a life, mjw.

I remember (but can’t document) at least a few “shocked” news stories a few years back showing that people who ate diet cakes and chocolates still carried around more excess weight than people who didn’t. No kidding! The diet cake is aimed at, and largely purchased by, people who are looking for a way to eat junk food and desserts and magically improve their health. The story of diet soda (Type I diabetes patients aside) is the same.

I was handed a Pocari Sweat after the sauna today and while waiting for my wife (45 minutes late!!!) I was reading the list of ingredients. i assume that as in North America, they are listed in order of percentage (ie, the first items are the main ingredients). The first two ingredients are different kinds of sugars (”white” sugar and glucose, I believe.) the third was something else, and the fourth ingredient, in letters at least three times larger than all the others, was grapefruit juice. I’m betting that there is very little grapefruit juice - probably less than 5%.
I asked my brother-in-law what the main ingredients were, and he told me it was grapefruit juice (although he wasn’t sure what grapefruit was). Wrong–the main ingredients are sugar and glucose!!
Interestingly, Wikipedia does not list grapefruit juice or sugar as ingredients in Pocari Sweat, so perhaps is Pocari marketing a different drink to Koreans?

But let me ask you this: what would you rather have? A blogger who gives so little thought to his posts as to render them virtually unintelligible? Or thoughtful prose that benefits from the virtue of an edit or two (dare I say sober second thought)?

R.Elgin had something to say and I wanted to know what it was. So I asked and he answered. Also, I think the owner of the blog has set a good standard in terms of linking references to earlier threads. Guys like R.Elgin can follow that with ease if they take but a moment to think about what they have written before hitting the send button.

Perhaps you’d prefer mediocrity for the blogs that you frequent?

Many developed countries are going bunkrupt due to ever increasing health care and pension costs. Smoking should be encouraged rather than discouraged if smokers spend less on health care and die rather quickly from the viewpoint of national financial health. Or at least pension premium and health insurance premium should be decreased for those who smoke.

Providing soda to your children is akin to child abuse.

Any questions ?