Sugar is Sugar

Old Dog's link sounds a little paranoid but, like most stories, there is probably some truth in it.  People have been arguing about sugar for as long as I can remember.  By some accounts, sucrose (cane sugar) is supposed to be bad for you, but fructose (fruit sugar) is supposed to be okay, unless it's high fructose corn syrup.  I looked it up once, and the only discernable difference between regular corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup is that high fructose corn syrup in more concentrated so they can use less of it, which saves them money.  Nevertheless, high fructose corn syrup seems to have replaced cane sugar on the PC crowd's shit list.  Cane sugar used to be raised by slave labor, and it might still be in some parts of the world, which is one of the reasons it used to be considered politically incorrect, but I'm not sure why they're currently down on high fructose corn syrup.  Then there's beet sugar, which is made from sugar beets.  I have never heard anything bad about it and, as far as I know, it's chemically indistinguishable from cane sugar.  

Ethanol was allegedly put into gasoline to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, this at a time when half the oil produced in the United States was being exported.  Last I heard, the development of fracking technology was supposed to have practically eliminated our dependence on foreign oil, but they're still putting ethanol in our gas.  I don't think it's harmful to modern cars and trucks, but it's supposed to be bad for anything that has a carburetor instead of fuel injectors, which includes small engines like lawn mowers and chain saws.  Two stations in Cheboygan sell ethanol free gas, at a higher price.  It's like when they first put lead in the gas and raised the price, and then raised the price again when they took the lead out.  Unbleached flour is like that too, more expensive than bleached flour.  How can they justify charging more for not putting an additive into something?

Our whitetail deer generally shed their antlers in late December or early January.  Our regular firearms deer season is November 15-30, which is timed to coincide with the peak of the rut (breeding season).  Archery season runs from October 1 to December 31, so some of the late archers might run across an antlerless buck.  Legal antler requirements vary from one Michigan county to the next.  Separate licenses are also sold for antlerless deer.  Each county has a different antlerless permit quota, based on how crowded the deer are perceived to be, and successful applicants are chosen by a random drawing.  In Cheboygan County I am allowed two bucks, but one must have four or more antler points on one side.  I was drawn for an antlerless permit this year as well, which doesn't always happen.  I understand that deer are overpopulated in some parts of the state, but not here.