Beauty

YouTube – Miss Teen USA 2007 – South Carolina answers a question

There is little doubt that this young woman’s public humiliation is being exploited by the neanderthal institution of “beauty contests” to gain free publicity for an event that hardly gets any attention anymore. Women will feel vindicated. Men will drool over a woman who is clearly beautiful and manifestly dumb and pliable. And, the entire ruse might actually work.

One question is, will she get her fair shake? Probably. The other question is, what does this do to the credibility of the “smart is the new sexy” billboards that have cropped up all over the skyline of the primordial soup?

Come, Swim in LA’s Cess Pools

Best (and worst) beaches in the U.S. – Today Show – MSNBC.com

The primordial soup prides itself on being a heavenly place, a paradise of a big city by virtue of its location on the Pacific coast, its eternally sunny climate and its “casual” attitude.

Look closely, however, and you will see that the “casual” attitude is a ploy to hide the aggression that roils inside everyone, and that the city’s largest tourist attraction and crown jewel, Venice Beach, remains one of the nation’s filthiest. Considering the fact that, after 50 years of operation, the Hyperion Treatment Plant has not managed to remove this stigma from the promordial soup’s beaches, one begins to grasp neglect that the prevailing “casual” attitude has cultivated in this city.

And, just to think that it used to be worse.

Working too Hard? You Had Better not Be!

Interesting news about the office workaholics | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com

This fact alone can potentially explains so much about the primordial soup: the long work hours, the unnerving sexual frustration that everybody exudes, the practice of sexual predation that passes for “dating” in this city and the emergence of the largest pornography industry on the planet. Yes, people work very hard in the primordial soup because hardly anything else ever works here.

Did Dick Cheney Arise from the Primordial Soup?

Bad bosses get promoted, not punished? | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com

By nearly all accounts, this is the standard M.O. in the primordial soup.

And, this begs the question in the title of this post. Or is it the case that the primordial soup acquired its ways from Cheney’s ilk?

Ving Rhames, Slave Owner?

Ving Rhames’ Dogs Kill His Maid

The primordial soup is the mother liqueur that gives rise to sensational lives and deaths. It is with some frequency that the sensational lives are intertwined with sensational deaths, and on this day, Ving Rhames’ quote about his special breed of slave-keeping dogs is raising the mauling of his housekeeper by his dogs to the level of a sensation so powerful that it just might overshadow the misfortunes of Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie.

The primordial soup changes everyone. Once immersed, no mortal can survive its influence.

California Elections Go from Mediocre to Ludicrous

State decides to secure electronic voting machines – Los Angeles Times

It seems as if Debra Bowen, California’s Secretary of State, is screaming “Damn it! We can be a greater laughing stock than Florida, and we ain’t gonna quite until we are!”

Brooklyn Cheese

I have no inkling as to why Brooklyn cheese is in any form a desirable variety of cheese, but this pizza delivery outfit that services Beverly Hills felt it was necessary to boast about its use of “Brooklyn Cheese” on it’s New York style thin pizzas.

It is a sign, indeed, that one is living in the primordial soup. WhereFlyer from local Pizza delivery restaurant in Beverly Hills else would those who have boasted about the California style brick oven pizza express any desire for a style of pizza that is outdated and, in this instance, clearly artificial. As expected, the people in a state where the dairy industry has spent billions advertising California cheese are craving more and more cheese from places that are known for cheese: Spain, France, the Netherlands. Yet, there are so many who crave a cheese with no pedigree, no reputation and no real existence. And, they descend upon Los Angeles–the primordial soup that accommodates them–in droves.

Stay tuned for kosher pork.