Anti-Americanism
I just read a bloody stupid article in Forbes Magazine. I have never read Forbes before, so I'm not entirely sure if stupid articles are common place. Maybe it's just a right leaning magazine. The article is by Paul Johnson, a British historian, and he argues that anti-Americanism that's widely shared by Europeans, is simply racist envy. Some of the constructs he uses to defend his opinion are ... well ... bloody stupid. He argues European intellectuals envies American democracy. Two things wrong there ... 1) Americans have a democracy. They don't. It's not one person one vote. The popular candidate doesn't actually make it into power. Take the last election for example. 2) That the populist opinion is necessarily better than the intellectual. Just look at the American population. The intellectuals are outnumbered by bible thumping, gun toting, rednecks. This is a good thing for the world's most powerful country? I can go on and on ... just read the article for yourself.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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