James’s Blog

What a relief.

Remember how SARS started? The Chinese government is at it again. From NYTimes:

A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China, but international and Hong Kong authorities said today that the Chinese government is providing little information about it, or about the contaminated wheat gluten that has caused deaths and illnesses in other animals.

The lack of even basic details is reviving longstanding questions about whether China is willing to share information about health and food safety issues with potential global implications.

The Times also reported over the weekend that contaiminated Chinese medicine killed over 100 people in Panama. It’s ironic that the same government that is reluctant to share information about its own disease outbreaks can stop Taiwan from joining the World Health Organization. It’s disgusting when a UN agency puts people’s lives and health in danger in order to appease insecure big countries.

Neill Cumpston writes a review of 300, which I haven’t seen yet. He doesn’t like the dude-ity too much.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (“DUDE-ITY”)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they’re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this – IT’S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can’t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

Wetzel’s Pretzels gets a mention in the review.