Ever since doing a full split on the ropes in “No Retreat, No Surrender”, Jean-Claude Van Damme was a martial arts sensation. His movies quickly found a successful template; someone he knows gets hurt/killed/raped, he trains in The Orient and uses his newfound montage-ability to defeat the bad guy using a jump spinning ballet kick. [...]
read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency has always been a political beast - it is political appointees accountable to whatever administration is in power, not the electorate. President Richard Nixon created it, that should tell you something. read...
read moreMark Bittman of the New York Times has never seen a paper about a miracle vegetable he didn't coo over - as long as it's about his friends in the $29 billion organic food industry. And he has never seen a study showing no benefit to organic food where he didn't suddenly put on his skepticism monocle and find all kinds of methodological flaws. But he hates biology in that special way only a...
read morePETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is mostly famous for exploiting live naked human women to protest the exploitation of dead food. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but not much about PETA makes sense. They deny science but apparently they love technology – especially if it will annoy hunters. They have [...]
read moreIt may be an example of greenwashing, but a Swedish burger chain now enjoys 11-15% profit margins, about 4 times that of their competitors, after going on a marketing blitz that encourages their customers to buy less beef and more veggie, fish and chicken burgers. Regardless of how scientific their menu's carbon footprint stats may be, the strategy worked. It got free promotion from vegetarian...
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