Food Buzz New York Times reports that 96.4 billion pounds of food is thrown out each year. Yay wasteful consumerism! This is a great way to stimulate our economy! Buy lots of food and just throw it away! It’s not like anyone is going hungry, right?
Movie Buzz The casting director of Shelter, a Julianne Moore/Jonathan Rhys Meyers horror movie about to start filming, was fired after putting out a call for inbred-looking people to play West Virginia hillbillies. West Virginians were not amused. We wonder, don’t they have makeup artists for that sort of thing? Interestingly, a British government minister only got a slap on the wrist for his recent comments about British Muslims’ inbred look.
Culture Buzz Miss Teen South Carolina answers a beauty pageant question about American ignorance by showing off some of her own. Watch as Miss Upton attempts to answer the following: “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?”