World Wide Wednesday
Deep Routes
- For the New Yorker, Andy Borowitz delves into famed porn star Jenna Jameson’s decision to endorse Mitt Romney for President:
The actress, who appeared as the character Holly So Tightly in the film Dirt Merchant, seemed unconcerned by the controversy swirling about Mr. Romney’s bank accounts in Switzerland and the Caymans: “I’ve put my assets in plenty of foreign places.”
Ms. Jameson concluded her presser by reiterating her fulsome support of the G.O.P. candidate: “Mitt Romney will do to all of America what I have already done to half of America.”
Readers older than I am: did you ever think you’d see the day when writing like this would appear in the New Yorker?
- Bill Maher reviews the film ‘Too High to Fail’ for the New York times:
The “war on drugs” is America’s longest war. It has cost taxpayers $1 trillion in the last 40 years, Fine notes, and it has turned our nation into “the most highly incarcerated society in history.” In 2011, a global commission on drug policy (whose members included Paul Volcker, George P. Shultz and former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico) declared that “the global war on drugs has failed.” Sixty-seven percent of Americans agree. Antonin Scalia and Pat Robertson are now to the left of President Obama on pot.
In a way, the author of a polemic on marijuana policy suffers from the odd case of having too many facts on his side. To a person coming to this subject pot-agnostic, it might seem as if the issue is being loaded. No, it is loaded. As Fine points out, the real addicts of the drug war are the law enforcement agencies that live off this senseless game of cops and robbers.
Quick Reads
- How to pair Cool Ranch Doritos with soda. When did Cooler Ranch become Cool Ranch? Has this been a thing for awhile? I missed the memo.
- 34 now-kind-of-sort-of celebrities that were on Seinfeld. As my friend Stephen pointed out, Sarah Silverman is a GLARING omission on this list.
- Olympic divers superimposed on top of toilets with facial expressions implying that they are taking an epic dump.
- A Facebook fan site for Katy Perry’s rack.
- I would probably classify this Newsweek cover as plagiarism…
Food Porn
My friend Adam, who writes I Eat Detroit, had this shawarma at Budapest Grill. I want it badly right now.
AMAZING Peking Duck from Sun Wah in Chicago:
