Last year I had a very concerned student inform me that all the Diet Coke I was consuming was killing me. Several girls chimed in that it was all over the innternet, that aspartame was deadly. So, we spent quite a bit of time doing internet research. Though literally thousands of articles were found proclaiming aspartame a killer chemical, they all, all, had the same source material, psuedoscience articles by Nancy Markle and Betty Martinin, who turn out to be one and the same person. I am not saying aspartame is good for you, but if it was the killer it was claimed to be, I'd a been dead long ago, or else I have immunity.

My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.