Is Royal Crown the only cola not evil?

I don't know the origin, but calling Coca Cola "the black water of imperialism" is one of my favorite evocative phrases.

Not being able to run a lottery seems like a failing new to imperialism.

It seems like lots of the world wants American money without having to deal directly with Americans. That's always been my goal too.

1: It was apparently created by a grocer pissed off at the price of Coke, so yeah, probably pretty non-evil as these companies go. Currently owned by Keurig.

That's kind of evil.

Turning coffee into a pile of litter.

Still, pretty mild compared to Coke and Pepsi.

Has Pepsi funded actual death squads? I'm pretty sure Coke has.

Coca Cola: Historically, were still better than many fruit or oil companies.

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Has Pepsi funded actual death squads?

One time they set Michael Jackson's hair on fire. That's not funding death squad bad, but its pretty bad.

Not if they knew what we know now about him.

Omg. One of Jammies students burned off a bunch of his leg hair in class today with an aerosol can and lighter. Apparently he was really freaked out afterwards, at least.

Burning hair smells so bad.

Kids today don't read the labels on aerosol cans which clearly say you aren't supposed to do that except to kill bugs hanging on a metal screen.

Are kids supposed to have lighters?

Like in class.

Yeah, to light the Bunsen burners in chemistry.

We had flint strikers for that.

OT: At a college fair. One guy looks just like John Michael Higgins, but I can't think of a way to bring that up.

My favorite is Paul Smith's College, which looks like it has Paul Smith at the booth.

Is Case Western good enough to make up for being in Ohio?

You could argue it's in Connecticut.

I would have if the rep looked like someone from Best in Show.

I have a friend here who's going to Case Western for law school in the fall. It is indeed a good school notwithstanding its marginal Ohio-ness.

My favorite is Midwestern State University, because it sounds like it was made up for a movie to avoid copyright issues.

You could imagine it to be in Ohio. But it's in Texas.

The "Western" in Case Western refers to its location relative to Connecticut.

Lots of things are west of Connecticut.

"Western Reserve" in particular. Also being at same latitude as Conn. (It was part of the west-to-the-coast swath.)

Ob. Geographic trivia: The townships are 5 miles square instead of 6 (surveyed a nd established before 6 became the standard).

Many fewer things are west in Connecticut, but CWRU is (arguably) one of them.

Right, it's the "Connecticut Western Reserve" and was claimed by Connecticut up until 1800, much later than most western claims of the original colonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Western_Reserve