Since fast-food has been on my brain lately, I couldn’t help but comment on the recent headline that is jolting Americans. It appears, according to a recent AP article, that one of the greatest things we can do to prevent Global Warming from getting worse is to clean up America’s piss-poor diet and exercise routine.

It really makes sense when you think about it. Our glutinous demand for fattening foods causes far more damage than it may seem.

First of all, our lazy asses should walk down to the Kentucky Fried Chicken, instead of driving. More cars on the road means more pollution, more smog and more carbon.

Second of all, feeding our selves with deep-fried-processed carcass in turn feeds the Mass-Mechanized-Slaughter-Industry. Mass-factory slaughter is not only unhealthy for the land (such as the contaminating of the water supply with an-imaginable amount of animal urine and feces), but the processing plants are infamous for pollution, not to mention it puts the small town farmer, the backbone of America, out …

I don’t normally recommend movies. People’s tastes vary so dramatically that it is often a pointless task. However last night I saw Fast-Food Nation. I expected a comedy like approach to fast-food, a la Supersize Me, or perhaps an advocacy film that beats you over the head with the ideals of being a vegan. Instead what I saw was a dramatic, intense and realistic mirror image of America’s unsustainable system of mass-mechanized-slaughter, illegal labor and corporate greed. It’s not a feel-good movie, however Fast Food Nation is the kind of film that should be mandatory viewing, especially for people who joyously indulge in their fast-food without a thought in their minds as to where it comes from.

I never read the original novel, although many around me did, I really had no idea that the story had very little to do with fast-food, and more to do with how and where America gets its food. The film is primarily a scathing look at the meat packing industry and the system of fast-food outlets that peddle the low-grade beef to the …

I always get a bit of a kick watching black and white logic fall on its ass. It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Black and white logic tends to be the refuge of simple minded people, you know: “you’re either with us or against us” style thinking that dictates all decisions can be made simple when you see it as either black, or white. This logic is a staple of our own fearless leader, George W. “the W stands for War” Bush, and is struggling these days to make his stubborn theories on Democracy work.

Unfortunately for him, it comes at the expense of looking the fool.

Today Bush spoke about the difference between the U.S. hardline on Burma, and the relatively mute response to Pakistan President and military chief Pervez Musharraf’s seizure of power. Musharraf’s recent suspension of his nation’s constitution is the ultimate destruction of Pakistani democracy, and our support of this matter is the ultimate bastardization of Bush’s pledge to support the flowering of democracy abroad. Get this: Bush claimed the difference is that Pakistan had been on the path to democracy …

One dictator our beloved ideologically inept el Presidente Bush failed to stop is Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. While Bush rationalized the ailing war in Iraq by declaring the deed to stop a brutal dictator who"gassed his own people” and “hated freedom” as the noblest of the noble deeds a nation can do, Bush defended his relations with this dictator as necessary for the War on Terror. Meanwhile Pervez Hilton over there began to work behind the scenes making provisions against a potential backlash to his rule.

Yesterday that work came to fruition as the deeply unpopular “president” was faced with the possibility of losing power. He struck hard and fast, declaring martial law and arresting many of his biggest enemies, even going as far as to black out non-state-run television and arresting a Supreme Court justice.

It is the kind of move a CIA-backed Latin-American dictator would play at the height of the cold war, consolidating damn near absolute power while the U.S. slaps his wrist.
“Bad Musharraf, Bad!”
The desperate dictator has had everything go his way with the U.S. until now, since Bush may be forced, due to ideological …

Halloween has become a major holiday in this country. I can’t help but feel as if that this is a reflection of our cynical times. The decadence is abundant in all forms: sexuality, consumption of junk-food and spirits, greed, selfishness, excessive capitalism and encouraging bad behavior. It is a holiday you would expect the evangelical Right to assault, and yet, it has become a rare opportunity for Americans to be open about our decadent nature, rather than repress it as we always do. If we looked in the mirror a little more often than we do today, I think we’d see that we wear that Halloween mask far more than we think we do, and I’m glancing over to the Right side of the spectrum on that one.

Halloween, like many holidays, demonstrates a major facet of the American lifestyle, while it may not be a uniquely American holiday, we celebrate the holiday in a uniquely American way.

Halloween is a celebration of life and happiness. It’s these little things that keep us going each day, so let us enjoy this holiday in truest American fashion: be bad tonight, than wake up, feel …