Archive for the 'Society' Category

For a brainy model with a hot new cookbook, marriage to a literary superstar creates opportunities—and problems. Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi now has an empire in the making, but Salman Rushdie won’t be part of it.
A Taste of Fame: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
Overrated host of an overrated TV show. I get the feeling that she [...]

The truth is that the Bible is way more soap operatic than people who have never really read it think. Lots of sex, lots of intrigue, lots of violence. Power is an aphrodisiac like no other, and to many of the “faithful” there is no power greater than that of the religious leader. A pastorship [...]

There is this notion that children are somehow “innocent”, that you come into this world with a clean moral slate, and only because of your environment do you become an evildoer. The fact is even infants are selfish and self-centered. They believe the world revolves around them and that only their needs matter. That’s the [...]

Gourmet BS

Harold McGee, who first bonded rigorous science to popular cookery in his 1984 book, “On Food and Cooking,” was doing a run-through for Thanksgiving dinner. His culinary investigations did not end with the book’s publication. He has spent the last 10 years working on a revision, just published by Scribner. Illustrating some of his new [...]

Security guard posing as officer demands sexual favors
A security guard posing as a police officer tried to elicit sexual favors from a woman early Saturday and threatened to write her boyfriend a hefty ticket if she didn’t comply, authorities said.
This guy has a brass set. Note that “he moved the woman to his car” [...]

9 Most Racist Disney Characters

“They get in their big F-150 trucks, park right in front of us, smash on the gas, blow their horn and say get the f— out the way you black b—-!” she said.Thursday’s fight led to one arrest and another person charged with hitting a staff member.Student say all that could’ve been avoided if police [...]