Bad Mickey

First of all, I'd like to thank all of my readers for their thoughtful and insightful responses to my first annual Reader's Survey. My staff is still analyzing the data, and we'll implement changes to You'll Have This in keeping with your suggestions.

Some days it just pays to read the news. Redux Beverages LLC based in Las Vegas has been selling and marketing an energy drink called "Cocaine." Seriously. Cocaine energy drink, by the way, contains no cocaine but does contain 1,100 mg of caffeine, an amino acid called taurine, something called guarana which is a stimulant from a South American plant, along with vitamins and other ingredients. Redux recently stopped shipping Cocaine and will change the name of the drink after pressure from the FDA and the attorneys general of Texas, Connecticut and Illinois, but they're still fighting for their right to sell Cocaine. Apparently, the FDA thinks that Cocaine energy drink will unfairly cut into the market share of legitimate cocaine distributors or something like that. I don't know which is more ridiculous--the fact that Redux is actually selling a drink called Cocaine or that the FDA and others are trying to stop them.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have reported in the New England Journal Of Medicine that promiscuous oral sex can carry a higher risk of throat cancer than smoking or excessive alcohol consumption. Here's the official report from the New England Journal and here's a snarky summation from The Register in the UK. I was going to write something clever here, but these guys did it much better than I could.

Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Al Aqsa TV has been featuring a television program with a Mickey Mouse look-alike (the link has been corrected) urging Palestinian children to fight Israel and work for global Islamic domination. When questioned at the Home For Retired Non-Digital Disney Cartoon Characters in Burbank, CA, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy had no comment.