What a turd-burglar. Thanks for reducing all of the world into simple black and whites. Things were getting too complicated for Bourdain? The way this man revels in his own waste, sexism, and elitism is just so unattractive. I'm not a vegan and would never be one. I have my likes and dislikes in the world of food, but am always up for something new. I sometimes buy organic, but can't always afford to. But above all else, at least I care about someone besides myself.

The sad little rah-rah-rah that other self-obsessed and equally righteous flesh-eating, cosmopolite, yuppies will get from reading this makes me sad. Bourdain is but a media-hound who seems to know that soon his shock-jockeying will run dry and he will be a nothing once again. I had a bit of respect for this man when Kitchen Confidential came out, but now I see he has just become a one-trick-hack. Bourdain has become what he hated so much.

I hope others can see past the fundamentalism of both the militant vegans and the nihilistic snobs like Bourdain to find a middle path where food still has taste and life still has meaning.

I worked for a number of years on an organic farm in California where we hand milked out own grass fed cows. These beauties created the most amazing un-pasteurized un-homogenized milk I ever did taste. A batch of ice cream I made out of some fresh colostrum is - hands down - the best thing I have ever eaten in my life.

Despite my fond reminiscing, I recognize that raw is not the best answer. This article begins to approach the complicated nature of food politics. Raw milk isn't always the best, nor is über-processed milk. There's no such thing as having absolute progress - we would do well to reexamine many of the assumptions of the industrial food chain.

I just gotta say, I hate lightning comparisons... like most, this one is incorrect. According to lightning safety, each American has a 1 in 600,000 for lightning. According to the CDC, each American has a 1 in 10,000 chance of getting shot.

Sigh. Mother nature just can't get a break.

Sources:

http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/probability.html

http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html

Finally a tech blogger which isn't just giving me trite reviews of different products, but actually covering tech and the news. Your posts this week have been so much better than anything I've seen in this space in months. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I was initially shocked by the numbers. 200,000 is a lot. But looking at stats with the census bureau, in 2006 there were about 73,000,000 people under 18 in the US. That means that assuming each one only got one surgery (and I would be willing to bet in actuality these surgeries tend to group) only 0.2% of them got any sort of surgery. No good, I will agree, but not an epidemic.

Gawd. This bull shit doesn't matter. Stop giving Rush a platform, stop trivializing politics, start writing about things that matter again. Every one of these posts about Rush makes me just that more disappointed about the state of the news media. This isn't news unless you say it is. So stop acting like some blowhard matters. He doesn't. There's war, death, economies crumbling, icebergs melting and countless tiny things that deserve attention before this.

Please write about things that matter.