Nigella Lawson Update
Last summer when I posted about cookery/lifestyle celeb, Nigella Lawson, I have to admit I was quietly hoping for an update like this, but wasn’t sure I would get it. However, Lawson not only divorced the idiot who used physical force on her, in a public restaurant last summer while photographers shot photos, but she left the nasty bastard without taking one cent of his money and declared her own independence.
Lawson also testified that her ex-husband was threatened by her own financial independence in their relationship. When an attorney referred to her divorce as “unfortunate,” Lawson quickly snapped: “I don’t regard it as unfortunate.”
Well done, Lawson! She also looks great in the photo.
You can read more here. The link to my previous post talks about what Lawson went through last summer.
Walmart Sucks
In the eighties there was a Tom Cruise film, Rain Man, where Cruise’s emotionally challenged brother had a fixation on K-Mart. At one point in the film Cruise loses control and tells the brother, “K-Mart Sucks.” When I found an e-mail this morning talking about something Walmart allegedly did to an employee this past Thanksgiving, it reminded me of that old movie for some reason.
Change.org is a web site where people and groups can go to start petitions online in protest of something they think is unfair and unjust. In this case, a guy’s mom filed a petition at Change.org for something Walmart allegedly did to her son and she’s looking for support. I know nothing about this, but I thought I would pass it along for people who have had experiences like this before with any large corporate structure that makes billions on the blood and sweat of people who make barely enough money to pay their oil bill.
From my inbox, with links to change.org:
I’m not sure about whether these petitions work or not, but it’s interesting to see that we do have alternatives these days to spread the word when we think something unfair has happened. In many ways it’s another form of free speech we didn’t have in the past.
Putin Gay?
There’s a new book out that claims Vladimir Putin is gay. I didn’t say allegedly gay because I don’t consider being gay defamatory in any way. If someone claimed I was straight and they were wrong, that wouldn’t be considered defamatory, and I think it’s time to point this out.
In any event, here’s what they say about the Putin book:
He suggests his propaganda experts put out the rumors to hide his ‘latently gay’ sexual orientation. The author also says the 61-year-old president prefers animals over humans.
It’s not the first time something like this has happened, where a closet case has turned in a complete opposite direction because he/she is filled with such self-loathing they can’t accept who they are. But again, whether he’s gay or not seems to be a huge issue in Russia, as if there’s something inherently wrong with being gay. And since I don’t believe there is, the only significant thing about this story is the self-loathing angle…if Putin is gay.
In any event, Putin’s spokesperson said this:
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has flatly rejected the allegations. He said: ‘Belkovsky’s remarks are lacking any basis, or as we say it in Russia: They are total rubbish.’