Junk Food becomes High Brow. Chelsea opened up the very first classy McDonalds in a complete revamp this month. Vinyl seats, bright lights, chic black uniforms. What really bothers me is do they actually think this will attract a different audience? I mean if you want soggy fries won’t you be heading for the dollar [...]
The most recent controversy that seems to have sparked a media frenzy is Adam Lambert’s performance at the 2009 American Music Awards. His raunchy performance, including simulating oral sex with a male dancer and making out with a male keyboardist, received numerous complaints and even caused a cancellation in his Good Morning America appearance. In [...]
Consumer wars deep in America. With an all time high in unemployment and a lacking in income opportunities, ordinary Americans are buckling down and spending cheap, assuming they spend at all. Welcome to the titans clamoring over each other to get their paws on these gutted critters. Amazon versus Walmart. Both are large and endured [...]
The world is capitulating in Noblesville, Indiana. To be frank, we can’t understand why the book is even selling or why people are willing to wait hours to be close to some witch called Sarah “You betcha” Palin. But this is America after all and that should tell us enough… The facts according to Huffington [...]
Depression and self-loathing in Korea. According to the Associated Press, the recent suicide of Korean model Daul Kim, 20, in her Parisian apartment marks a mysterious string of suicides amongst Korean celebrities. Apparently, her death brings the suicide death toll to 9 this year. One has to ask why this is the prevailing wisdom of [...]
Why the Yanks prefer to ignore their pain instead. You might not know it but India has been one of the most dynamic countries in the world in recent years. With 8 percent annual growth there has been a shifting in social dialectics. It only used to be the ultra rich and ultra poor but [...]
Growing up in America, many of us have been exposed to racism in one form or another, usually only from one side of the fence. Characteristics that define each culture and race often go by unappreciated or misunderstood and seem strange to many Americans of a differing ethnicity. For a time, it seemed the nation [...]
Trying to figure out at whom to point the finger… Pursuant to last week’s mass shooting at Ford Hood, defense agencies are scrambling trying to figure out why they weren’t warned that there was a freak amongst them. Early reports have it that the major was in touch with Islamic clerics. This should have immediately [...]
Life can become unbearable when big, fat, white men don’t get their way. It seems Robert Benmosche, current head of tax guzzler AIG, has been threatening to throw temper tantrums and even resign if the world that came to his rescue doesn’t get out of the way and let him do what he needs to [...]
Another chapter in the story of public figures being a little too, well, public with their private lives. This time, however, it’s not Lindsay and her Daddy. It’s an altogether unexpected newcomer to the scene: Barack Obama. When little Malia Obama, just 11 years old, came home with a catastrophic 73 on a recent science [...]
