Archive for February, 2009

A Chef At Large

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

In order to better organize my consulting and lecture work, I have set up a web presence under achefatlarge.com
Currently I have two blogs running: Phantom Of The Op-Ed and A Chef At Large: Travel. To keep things tidy I am creating a new blog: Thought For Food. The new organization of the three will be as follows:
Phantom Of The Op-Ed: General topics and opinion bog
A Chef At Large: Travel: Travel Blog
Thought For Food: F&B Related News and Opinion
I will be moving some of the posts in the current two blogs around to tidy things up a bit, and all will be linked through the master site achefatlarge.com which will be consulting related, but also a portal for all my web pages.
Any questions?

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Old Shoe

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

I see on my CNN web page that another shoe has been tossed…”in protest.” This one aimed at Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboao. In case you forgot the last most recent shoe was cast at George W. Bush.
I was just commenting on episode 91 of Skepticality regarding a couple of inebriated foul-mouthed girls-gone-wild who tried to storm the Discovery Institute to hurl scorn and disdain at ii and it’s occupants.
I am often one of the first to chirp up, in Post-man-esque (Costner not Troisi) rhetoric, that “stuff’s gettin’ better, all the time.” But these recent events disappoint me.
What has become of the legacy of non-violent protest that has this year gained us such a remarkable victory as Barak Hussein Obama, as president of the United States?
To me the shoe throwers only hurt their own position by resorting to violence, as the drunken frat girls only damage the reputation of the skeptical community by being such boors. The first is clearly assault and the offenders should be punished for such. The second, is harder to file, but is disdainful none the less.
If you have better ideas, really better. Ideas that will prove to improve the world, life for humankind, that should be enough. You need not and should not muddle them up with bad behavior.

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