“You should just smile and *#@%&*$ blow me!”
According to Radar Online, that’s what Mel Gibson allegedly told his ex-girlfriend (and a couple of other things, too, including that she needed a bat to the head, and he could put her in “a rose garden”). Following the release of an 8-minute tape where Mel is believed to be heard making this and similar [...]
Is restaurant food dangerous to your health?
According to Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Americans watch a lot of cooking shows, but we tend not to cook. Instead, we pop corporate-produced food items into microwaves or boiling water. When that seems like too much work (and apparently it does seem like too much work), we [...]
News Flash: Girls don’t get pregnant by themselves
Teen pregnancy rates in the United States are up for the first time in years. The New York Times attributed this sad finding to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit research group: While teenage pregnancy rates for whites remain far lower than for blacks and Hispanics, the pregnancy rates increased for all [...]
Taken: Not just a mindless thrill
I’m not usually a fan of shoot-em-up movies. But then one of my favorite actors, Liam Neeson, whom I haven’t seen in ages, showed up in Taken, and I bit the bullet (heh, heh). He compelled me to buy a movie ticket for the first time since my 13-year-old daughter and I went to see [...]
