Dennis Latham: Life, Fiction, and the Pursuit of Madness

Diet Soda Killer? I've seen two articles this morning on how bad a diet soda is for you. You have to be shitting me. All along they say you shouldn't have sugary drinks and now they are saying diet soda causes strokes and dementia...but when all the factors like smoking, age, weight, current medical problems, and health are figured in...the figures don't mean anything and are inconclusive. So in the end it's all bullcrap, probably promoted by the sugary drink manufacturers an d the sugar growers. They should be concentrating on the effects of mixing prescriptions and the many ingredients in the flu shots they now keep trying to push on people, who in nine out of ten cases get the flu anyway. Seems to me they would cause dementia and strokes more than any ingredient in diet soda. At age 70, I have a case of Type 2 diabetes, which they say is from exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. I was exposed to it...but I never got diabetes until I starte

Talk of Civil War in America There is always talk of Civil War in America. I just want to know if we all have to dress like we're in Road Warrior or a Goth Band to participate? What if you  don't live near a desert so you can drive around without purpose? Will the electric stay on so everyone can raid grocery and drug stores to grab stuff they don't need? If you don't have any weapons will a big stick or a ball bat or a knife really help? Can you reason with people who want to kill you and raid and pillage? Will little kids all have to dress like cavemen? How can you tell who is on your side? Will everyone just wear a blue or red Scream face? Will people still report to work if they have a job or will they have "closed for anarchy days". Will anything remain open? Since most families are divided now, will people shoot their own relatives over politics? What happens when there are no longer cell phones, internet, cable, and toilet paper? Wh