Veisalgia (Hangover) Cures

I ran across a great article about hangovers today from howstuffworks.com:  Page 8 has an excellent recap of ways to diminish the effects of hangovers.

Here are a couple fascinating tidbits from the article:  

• Eating Fried or Fatty Foods helps prevent a hangover
• Taking a couple aspirin before bed can reduce a hangover in the morning
• Eggs, Bananas, and Fruit juice for breakfast help to ease a hangover
• Mixing different alcohols and drinks does lead to a worse hangover

Buy Mexican Pepsi!

One of the blogs I read just directed to this article about PepsiCo suing a Mexican company for distributing Pepsi made in Mexico to American consumers.  It almost reminds me of the coke zero commericial where they are trying to sue coke for “taste infringement” even though they belong to the same company.  I’m not really sure what the deal is with this lawsuit, but I would bet the Mexican Pepsi is much better than the American Pepsi.  Unfortunately, I have not had Mexican Pepsi, but I have had Mexican Coke, and it  is WAY better than American Coke.  

Mexican soda is better than American soda because they use cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.  The only reason American soda producers use high fructose corn syrup is because of the huge tariffs on sugar and subsidies our government provides to corn growers. 

I’m not a health expert, but I have heard from articles like this that high fructose corn syrup is worse than sugar for our health.  

You have to love a government that cares so much about its citizens that it will tax and subsidize a healthier, cheaper, tastier  alternative out of the market.  And when it still comes to the market at a higher price, good-old fashion litigation comes to the rescue to prevent us from having any choice whatsoever.

Anyways, if you can, please check the ethnic foods aisle at your grocery store and pick up some Mexican Pepsi (or Coke if there is no Pepsi), and tell the government just how grateful you are that they can effectively dictate which soda you are allowed to drink

Penn Says!

I’m a huge Penn Jillette fan…and what better way to satisfy my insatiable appetite for penn rantings this this new video service set up by Sony. Basically, they gave Penn a few cameras and he talks about whatever the hell he wants whenever something comes to his mind:

Here is a sample:

From Crackle: Penn Says – Bill Gates and Global Warming

Can it get any easier than this?

So Simon inspired me to start writing a blog…I didn’t realize it was so easy to get started with this fantastic wordpress website!

I just spent like 45 minutes trying to figure out if I could set something up on the web space provided to me by my ISP….Finally, I realized it wasn’t going to be possible to have comments for each individual posting…so I gave up and decided to check out wordpress….

About 5 minutes later, I got a blog!