I’ve avoided sodas for years now, mainly because I think they taste too sweet – and then as I learned more about high fructose corn syrup and artificial ingredients, I was happy I came to that conclusion in the first place.

Watched Food Inc. last weekend with the wife, and am pretty amazed at how soda is now cheaper than clean water. “Clean” is relative sure, but modern standards leave us with clean water costing way, way more than soda.

Pretty good reading, if you are into the topic of vaccination.

My favorite comment is this one (Posted by: LizP | 10/23/09 | 10:59 am), which pretty much sums up my opinion on the matter:

Ignorance abounds…There is NO way to know from whence your illness arises – people are contageous LONG before they exhibit symptoms of disease! People all around you, who appear entirely healthy (including individuals who have been fully vaccinated), are shedding bacteria and virus’ with every cough, sneeze, and spittle-drenched “p.” WAKE UP! There are not enough vaccines in the world to prevent you from getting sick. What prevents you from getting sick from your exposure to all of the “bugs” is your intact immune system, good health derived from unpolluted whole foods, pure water, ample rest, and regular exercise, practicing hand-washing excellence, avoiding close contact with obviously ill people, and keeping your hands off of your face and out of your ears! Just because you choose to down Big Gulps full of corn syrup, devour food-like processed and “enriched” products, and couch-camp, rather than avail yourself of good health practices, don’t expect me pollute my body to possibly lessen YOUR risk; your lousy health outcomes, regarding virus’ and bacteria will be a direct result of your own conscious decisions. Further, for those of you who feel opting-out of some or all vaccines should disqualify families from receiving medical care and health insurance — think very carefully, it is our healthy families, paying into the insurance pool and NOT USING regular medical care, who are carrying the burden of your pharmaceutical lifestyle on our backs. Without us, the risk-pool is far deeper and your costs will sky-rocket! If we were not paying outrageous premiums, for insurance which we don’t use, we would have plenty of cash to pay out-of-pocket for emergency care, in the event of an accident.

Note to site owner: Please turn on some sort of formatting capabilities in your comments – these huge jumbles of copy are tough to read and make all the responses look a bit hastily written.

So what’s your take? Is there a logical, reasoned angle that everyone will hopefully find, one way or the other? Or are there too many competing interests that don’t have our well-being as their top priority to allow that to happen?

Nice idea, going to plop it here just for giggles.

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Yes, I am naive, and expect to stay that way.

I live in NYC, and I am surrounded by humanity’s worst trash and refuse. Despite that, I have always had a reputation of being direct, honest, and never playing games (besides soccer).

Try it, and you’ll be making the world a slightly better place. No lies, no games, no politics. You’ll be happier, and folks around you will notice.

Sign me up, baby! This ride is one I’ll never get sick of.

Otherwise you can go back to a life of sulking, scheming and disappointment. Sucks to be you. And people like this do affect my day, as I still have to find ways to insulate myself from, well, jerks. That skill however was honed years ago on the playground – and so I put that long-lost knowledge to good practice.

And you should too. Go ahead, when you see someone do something that you think is awesome, don’t be too cool for school – walk up to them and tell them straight up that they just rocked in a special way. As you sit there on the subway, and you see someone playing with a new doodad that fascinates you, ask them how they like it, and why they got it in the first place. See someone in line at the register, and they are $0.45 short? Come on, man, lighten up your pockets and get that pesky metal out on the counter! Every three or four blocks or so, randomly high-five someone as they walk by.

Ok, this is not really naive in a strict sense, but these things are things you will start to do naturally when you practice deliberate naivete.

Even more exciting is that I can now test a video embed in WordPress 2.8, tee-hee!

So far the new major features in 2.8 disappoint – demanding hostnames and login credentials without really explaining what they are, or why they are needed. WordPress, you need a hostname for what? Don’t you already know the site you are running on, and know where your plugins/themes are being hosted? Silly.