Michael Schnier

So what does Ezra Levant do? He inquisitions a PETA rep while eating chicken wings, and says everything written by his Sun colleague but opposite. The animals on Ezra’s Bizarro-world zoo are treated well and, look, he has a short clip of them… standing in cages, not doing much of anything. Journalism at its finest. As if brief moments where nothing bad happens in view can ward off complaints of small cages, rotting carcasses, poorly trained staff, and public safety threats from disease (all mentioned in Platt’s article).

I have been informed that the food hosted at the event included, “a variety of items which included plant based foods, i.e. salads, veggies, as well as fish.” (Salads? How about some falafel on wholewheat pita?) I still lack information as to what other foods may have been available at the event that may have set Steve-O off. I am informed that the Association would have liked to have had a dialog with Steve-O.

I wasn’t happy with TMZ’s reportage of the American Diabetes Association’s response to Steve-O’s criticism of their Celebrity Go Kart Tournament. TMZ’s coverage of the reply begins and ends with a short paraphrasing of an unnamed American Diabetes Association representative. Essentially: “there is no rule that you can’t eat meat if you have diabetes — every person is different, and should be on a meal plan that works for them.” I wanted more depth, so I contacted the Diabetes Association.

I don’t know why, but speaking of juices: the AOL luxury blog Luxist seems to be drooling over the lobster press. (Does AOL still print those useless CDs?) It’s not clear to me why anyone needs a $40,000 device to extract bodily fluids from a lobster. Never mind one that requires two attendants to operate. Before any one of my readers has to address the cruel and needless scalding of lobsters… couldn’t they just use a sheet of tinfoil and a really heavy book? Perhaps there’s a reason there’s only five of these monstrosities.

This book is just as much about “the world’s most prolific bicycle thief,” as the media has called him, as it is about the society he lives in. Kenk is at its best when it reaches beyond Kenk, using him as a focal point for society’s consumerism.

A headline for an article in Tuesday’s Daily Mail reads “Real men must eat meat, say women as they turn their noses up at vegetarians.” Of course, the article’s content is not quite as dramatic as the punchy headline promises. The study Fiona Macrae seems to be referring to, Meat, morals, and masculinity, by Matthew Ruby and Stephen Heine, doesn’t actually cover romantic desirability.