What’s So Special About McDonald’s Fountain Coca-Cola?

McDonald’s customers often feel that a McDonald’s fountain Coca-Cola is better than other fountain Cokes. Why is this? First, I can tell you that McDonald’s fountain Coke is not likely to be liked better than a cold Coca-Cola straight out of the bottle or can, without ice. Ice is the key. It is rumored that … Read more

Plastic Alternatives for the Home

Plastic bottles and trash contaminating water

Plastic is a toxic scourge on our environment. It is polluting our oceans and poisoning the sea while filling up our landfills. The problem is that we are addicted to it. We absolutely must have the convenience of plastic. I’m shocked about how cavalier we have become even as we learn that we must find … Read more

Bad Reasons to Take Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Many people take vitamin and mineral supplements, not because they have a poor diet, but as added insurance against a lack of certain nutrients. This is probably not needed at all but the attitude is better safe than sorry and a little extra won’t hurt. The fact is, extra will not likely do anything but cost you money. … Read more

Hamlin’s Wizard OIl: The Cancer Curing Liniment

Hamlin’s Wizard oil, launched in 1861, was a famous patent medicine of the late 1800s and early 1900s meant to be used as a liniment. According to the ad shown here, it was a remedy of rheumatism, neuralgia, toothache, headache, diphtheria, sore throat, lame back, sprains, bruises, corns, cramps, colic, diarrhea, and all pain and … Read more

Homeopathy is Not a Drug and Other Babbles

Years ago a group from the 10:23 Campaign staged some public mass homeopathic drug “overdoses”. Don’t worry it wasn’t a Jim Jones thing. It’s a simple demonstration of the fact that no amount of a homeopathic drug can harm you because there is simply nothing in it but water and sugar. Such demonstrations are nothing … Read more

Does Flex Seal ‘As Seen on TV’ Really Work?

Does Flex Seal As Seen on TV really seal as well as the commercials suggest? This test duplicates some of the things the guy in the commercial claims are possible. The results were quite positive. Flex Seal is definitely a useful product for all sorts of sealing jobs around the house.