And what goes in laundry rooms? Why, soap boxes of course!

JB pulls out her soapbox and steps up on it.

Ahem. These are my causes. Some are worthy. Many are not.

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The cause of the day is . . . Aspartame! We all know and love aspartame. It's the sweetener that's used in diet sodas and sugar-free gum, among other things. Heck, we all know that things that are deadly poisons are yummy!

Um, deadly poisons?

Yeah. Pretty much. Check it out: aspartame is ten percent methanol. What is methanol? I hear you cry. Jet fuel. Wo-hoo! Let's all drink jet fuel! It's this stuff that causes many alcholics to end up blind or dead. How exciting! It's like playing Russion Roulette!

The other ninety percent of aspartame is made up of phenylalanine and aspartic acid. These are amino acids that are normally good for people, but without the other amino acids that are supposed to go with them, they become a neurotoxin. This aspartame stuff just gets better and better, don't it?

So, what does all this do? I hear you cry. Aspartame can affect people anywhere from two weeks to fifty years after they start taking it. The things aspartame causes have a very high ickiness factor. Drinking or eating aspartame can cause any of the following:

People who take a lot of aspartame in what they're eating and drinking can have up to as much as 250 mg of methanol daily. That's 32 times the EPA limit.

Aspartame wasn't passed by the FDA until President Reagan fired the person in charge, and put in Dr. Hayes. Dr. Hayes set up a Board of Inquiry to figure out how bad aspartame was, and when they said 'GET RID OF IT!' he went ahead and passed aspartame as safe anyway. He was under a lot of pressure, apparently. Didn't want to be fired. Can't say that I blame him.

If you want to learn more about this wonderful little poison, go read Aspartame... the BAD news! by Mark Gold. There's also a complete list of what aspartame causes there.

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This is my Stop Dr. Laura! cause. I actually think she occasionally has some good things to point out. But, um, she's a doctor of engineering, and she says too many bad things that overrule the good stuff she says. She's hurtful, and intolerant. Not someone I want around. Click on the banner below to check out the Stop Dr. Laura webpage.

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Devo is one of my favorite writers. He's just that good. And his artwork is positively drool-worthy. Yes, he is that good. But there's a problem. You see, Devo writes sllooooooowwwwlllyyyyyy. Now, as we all know that I'm an impatient little dragon, I don't like that. He needs to write faster. And as many people know, the way to make a writer write faster is to petition them (also known as feedback)!

Make Devo finish "Go" and "Frozen"! Haven't read those? That link on Devo's name will take you to "Frozen." This link will take you to Mooksville, Earth, where "Go" is archived.

This is a very serious cause. 'Cause, dangit, I wanna read those stories! Bad Devo! Bad!

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There is another writer who has astounded me. It's really unfair to astound me and then leave me hanging. When I last talked to her about this unfairness, she informed me that she has to re-write the first bazillion chapters of her story, "Greenland," in order to release the next bazillion chapters!

Agh! Unfair unfair unfair! Well, much like Devo, this is a Writer. And all Writers write faster when they're hounded. Kael has written part of "Greenland" and much of "Mischief and Mattresses," both mooky stories with original, absolutely adorable characters, Jack and Zach. "M&M" can be found at Mooksville, Earth and I don't remember where "Greenland" can be found. Sigh.

Anyway. Go! Write to this writer! Tell her you won't stand for anymore of this dilly dallying around! Hound her! Obsess over her! Huggle her until stories miraculously fall out! Go, my little warriors, go!!

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