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“No one cares more about the environment than oil companies,” said Steven Colbert on The Colbert Report last night. Check out his sketch that poked fun at the expiration of the offshore drilling ban. Colbert tells the audience: “A lot of people talk about loving the earth. But how many of them actually penetrate it?” [...]
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Good morning, party people! It’s probably not quite time to tune up the violins, à la the Titanic, but if we haven’t actually hit an economic iceberg, we’re in awfully cold water.
AIG has (seriously, thankfully, even for those of us without any actual “investments” or “money in the bank”) been floated a lifesaver by New [...]
Brian Frank discusses the politics of fatness in America in the context of recent anti-Big Fat legislation here in L.A.
The Food and Drug Administration ruled Thursday that it is safe for humans to eat meat and milk from cloned animals. Although the meat and milk from cows, pigs, and goats will probably not hit supermarkets until 2008, I must say I am a little weirded out.
Okay, so the likelihood of me ever eating beef [...]
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Fast food is tasty, cheap, and utterly hideous in every way. And now it’s a film.
Yum.
Industry plus food equals serious yuck. But how else do you expect to feed 7 billion people?
Dumpster food-refuse isn’t all totally gross. Couldn’t we, like, cook it up and serve it to people? How American is that!
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