• The artificial sweetener aspartame, contained in products like Nutrasweet©, Equal© and many diet colas, causes a wide variety of ailments.

• Pepsi removed the phrase 'under God' from the snippet of Pledge of Allegiance it printed on promotional cans.

• Dr Pepper removed the phrase 'under God' from the snippet of Pledge of Allegiance it printed on promotional cans.

• Circulating an email petition decrying the treatment of women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan will improve their lot.

• US car companies have further donated generously to relief funds for New York, while most foreign car companies haven't done a thing.

• An email petition decries the plight of captive bears in China used to generate bile for various folk remedies.

• The web site Bonsai Kitten promotes 'preserving the long lost art of body modification in house pets' and circulating an email petition will shut it down.

• Budweiser (and Pepsi) pulled all their products from a California convenience store when a delivery man discovered its employees celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11.

• Comedian George Carlin (or rock muscian Ted Nugent) penned a list of 'politically incorrect' opinions, dubbing himself a 'bad American.'

• The United States Congress is considering a 5 cent tax on email.

• Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

• A movie portraying Jesus as homosexual is going to be released in 2001.

• Senator Hillary Clinton is the only politician in Washington, D.C. who refused to meet with a delegation from the Gold Star Mothers.

• Vice President Al Gore confused Bible passage John 3:16 with John 16:3.

• Vice President Al Gore has told 21 'lies' about his life and career.

• Fast food giant McDonald's is using imported beef in its products.

• Hillary Clinton and Bill Lann Lee (Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights) were campus radicals while attending Yale University and 'shut down Yale University with demonstrations.

• An email petition prefaced by a poem, 'I Went to a Party, Mom' or 'Death of an Innocent,' is being circulated by 'Mothers Against Drunk Driving' (MADD).

• Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the noted atheist, has proposed that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ban all religious broadcasting.

• An email petition claims that Congress is about to cut funding to public media outlets PBS and NPR and that circulating the petition will help save them.

• Jim Neugent complained to ABC about the pro-gay themes of its television series 'The Practice' and received a rude antireligious rant in reply.

• In an interview on 'Sixty Minutes', US Attorney General Janet Reno defines a 'cultist' as someone who 'has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ'.

• Members of Congress do not pay into Social Security and have a generous pension plan funded by exclusively by tax revenues.

• An email petition is being circulated to convince the Taliban, the ruling regime of Afghanistan, to stop requiring Afghani Hindus to wear a yellow badge to distinguish them from Moslems.

• Tommy Hilfiger reveals in an interview with Oprah Winfrey (or CNN's Elsa Klensch or Larry King) that he didn't design his clothes for black and asians (or other minority groups).

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