News Videos

I have a complaint.

I get most of my news from the internet. Lately I have seen A LOT of videos on news websites. That's not so unusual, but what's different is that they will post a headline - usually involving some kind of mystery, and then they WON'T include a way you can read about the news, you HAVE to watch the video, or you don't get to know what the mystery is about.

I just saw a headline that read "Should You 'Friend' a Parent on Facebook? A father & son found out the hard way that their relationship wasn't meant to exist on the social media site. Find out why." and I thought, "Wow! What happened to them? The dad found out his son was a drug dealer or what?" So I clicked on the headline, only to have a video window pop up. Usually, I just close the video and go on with my life, but this sounded like a really juicy story - it was on the front page of MSN and everything. What terrible Facebook event caused a rift in the bond between father and son? The dad posted a picture of his now 26 year old son when he was one, sitting on the toilet.

I would put a link here so you can see how unnewsworthy this entire story is (it originally aired on the Today Show) but I don't want to give them the satisfaction.

Take that, news video people.

French Veggies

I have been a vegetarian for more than six months now (for a year before that I was eating only birds and fish) and I love it. It did take me thirty years to finally make the switch however. What held me back for so long was my love of traveling, and especially my desire to live in a foreign country. I didn't want to go to another country and miss out on trying all of its local foods. I did my share of traveling and living abroad, however, and am now happily veggie.

I have not, however, visited France yet, though I have eaten enough French cuisine to satisfy my sense of curiosity on the matter. When I do go to France, I have no doubt I will be able to eat very well, especially considering my love for bread, coffee, dessert, wine, etc. I can also buy food at a store pretty easily with my one semester of college French. What will I eat, however, when I go to a fancy French restaurant?

In answer to that question, I recently discovered this article on Yahoo news titled: "Meatless in Paris: Dining for Vegetarian Visitors." Please read it if you are interested.

For more info. on going Veggie (why not try it?) go (here).

Bon Appetit!