I always thought Mick LaSalle was a big 'ol asshat. This just cements it:

A couple of weeks ago I got some nasty reaction to my review of JUST WRIGHT, the new Queen Latifah movie in which she is the romantic lead. She plays an average woman who becomes the love interest of an extremely desirable man -- an NBA superstar who could presumably have ( Read more... )

I have never liked Jamie Oliver. Back in the day when he was on the Food Network I found him annoying and pompous. Then he donned the fat suit and televised the autopsy of a fat man ostensibly to show us fatties how we are killing ourselves, because, you know, he really cares so much about us and our health and not about sensationalist tactics to ( Read more... )

There is a troubling article about increased maternal deaths related to pregnancy here. The writer plays up the supposed dangers of the obesity in pregnancy in the first paragraph, though if you actually read down you see that the evidence points to the insane c-section rate as the primary culprit (duh!). Serious editorializing going on always ( Read more... )

10-27) 21:12 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Three pieces of an emergency repair to the Bay Bridge's cantilever section made over Labor Day weekend snapped and crashed onto the upper deck of the span late Tuesday afternoon, striking three vehicles and forcing the indefinite closure of the region's busiest bridge ( Read more... )

I could almost laugh at these idiots if I didn't a.) think there were far too many of them, b.) they weren't holding signs with things like "We came unarmed this time" and c.) there weren't palpable levels of racism present.

WTF?

Seriously, WTF is up with committing oneself to being so damned ignorant and hateful?

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Really.

This is just straight-up crazy, fucked-up, bullshit. The presence of confederate flags, blatant racism, and total disrespect for what actually happened under the Nazi regime just makes it all even more infuriating. Of course, every single person in those photos is white, white, white. It is all just appalling.

The ignorance just ( Read more... )

There is a lot on my mind that I haven't had the time nor energy to fully articulate here. My life really isn't all about food and cooking, after all, but sometimes that is the easiest stuff to post. In short, some things that are churning in my brain that should become full posts soon are ( Read more... )

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If anyone wonders why my cranky-pants have been glued on all week it is largely because of the blatant, willful ignorance and idiocy embraced by asshats like the woman in the video ( Read more... )

I am saddened, but not surprised, that this happened in a community very close to where I grew up. The racism and sexism, while alive and well all over the country, is palpable amongst the good 'ol boys in the Central Valley. It disgusts me. What disgusts me further is the contention that the "jokes" weren't racist and that they had no racial ( Read more... )

I have to say I am surprised at the super-supreme media coverage of Michael Jackson's death. I get that he was influential and important and his death was a surprise, but apparently I missed the Jackson fan-train a long time ago ( Read more... )