Who Will Kill The Evil Germs? By Mark Morford

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Microwave your sponge, kill bacteria dead. Note: Does not yet work on people. Or life

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Is it over yet? Is there some sort of end in sight? Can we all emerge from the dark cloud of sheer ongoing terror in this country regarding germs and bacteria and sundry microscopic things that seep into your toenails and eat away at your eyeballs and steal your basic cable?

No, no, we cannot.

Here is a new study, from the University of Florida. It proves that you can indeed kill almost every hint of bacteria on your average rancid germ-filled household sponge by simply nuking it for two full minutes -- which will, if you try it, turn your sponge into a smoking smoldering extraterrestrial WMD device you cannot touch for about an hour lest you scald your fingertips and wonder what the hell a basic household sponge is made of that it doesn't actually catch fire or liquefy after two minutes in a microwave. But hey, at least everything's dead.

This is, of course, good news indeed, given how sponges are apparently astonishing factories for bacteria and the kitchen sinks they often hang around in are reportedly the absolute best (read: warm and wet, and not in the good way) places for germs to fester and breed and given how lots of people get sick every year from (apparently) licking the sink and given how we have very much become, after all, a quivering, twitching, germ-obsessed nation. ...

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