20.Nov.2011 Funding Hate
Update: Yelp cut my post on Lassens new store in Los Feliz, but apparently they can’t stanch the flood: Lassen’s Los Feliz on Yelp Down to 1 and a half stars now. It started for me with Carl Karcher, founder of Carl’s Jr. He was a “conservative” supporter of all things hateful. After hearing about [...]
09.Feb.2011 The Joy of Snus
I am a tobacco user. Once again this week, I had to go to my HMO and be told “you are a smoker.” Once again I had to explain: “I am a tobacco user.” Quite tedious. After the decades long attack on cigarettes in the United States, smokers of Pipes and users of smokeless tobaccos [...]
06.Aug.2010 Religious Freaks Strike Out
…in both senses of the phrase: striking out at the rational world, where the everyday lives of all of us absolutely disgust them; striking out when trying to defend their hates and prejudices in court. Judge Walker’s Decision on Prop 8, was a thorough beatdown on the idea that we can, by a simple majority [...]