In a recent interview, the very-pregnant-due-any-day Angelina Jolie made it clear that she wouldn’t hesitate to pick up a gun to protect her fam from an intruder.

The mother of four (soon to be six), along with her live-in boytoy Brad Pitt, is currently residing in a palatial French mansion, and preparing to give birth to twins. Despite rumors that Ms. Jolie will not be giving birth until August, word is out that a team of nurses from L.A. have already hopped over the pond to France.

Her protective “instincts” are obviously on high alert, and Angie is definately ready to kick the ass of anyone who tries to tangle with her (seems to be an odd admittance, given her stature as a goodwill ambassador to the UN, don’t you think?). Read More »

And here it is – the finale that no one really cares about.

I’m calling Thing 2 for the win since he flew her ass out to France for this.

T2, Sinceer and Black are the last three standing either in France or in Fort Lauderdale, I still haven’t figured this out. Someone’s going home in the morning, which means that we’re probably in for a sloppy, whiny night. I guess Black and T2 are going to gang up to get Sinceer and her forehead out.

And I was totally wrong – there was no sloppy ‘please don’t eliminate me’ hook up. Flav sits with them as they eat breakfast and pretends to be saddened by the decision that he was to make. He has three tickets in his hands – one to Paris, one to Monaco and one to LA.

T2 and her ginormous gold hoops are going to Paris.

Black hopes that Flav sees her for who she is – if who you are is that pair of massive breasts, then you’re set.

Flav makes Sinceer and Black give him reasons why they should go to Monaco with him and I refuse to listen to this. Apparently Flav doesn’t want to hear it either since it’s a lot of screaming and no words. Read More »

According to the World Bank, global food prices have increased by 75% since 2005 and 45% in the last nine months. In the past two months, the cost of rice, a staple food for over half of the world’s population, rose by 75%. The price of wheat has risen 120% during the past year.

Deadly protests and rioting over these increasing costs are occurring throughout Africa and Asia.

In Haiti, where 80% of the population survives on less than $2 a day, mass demonstrations turned deadly. Rioting in Les Cayes killed 4 and wounded at least 20. A few days later Haitians attempted to storm the presidential palace in Port-au- Prince shouting “We are hungry!”

In Egypt, where over 33% of the population live on around $2 a day, police took over a textiles plant to prevent a widespread strike over rising food costs. The military has been enlisted to bake bread to curb the growing anger. Read More »

In several previous posts I discussed the intense controversy surrounding the upcoming Beijing Olympics. In recent weeks the traditional international journey of the Olympic Torch has served as a flash point for clashes between supporters and protesters.

Ironically, this torch relay was supposed to be the largest in Olympic history—a showcase of international cooperation and sport. Instead, it has become a testament to international outrage over China’s human rights abuses, especially over Tibet.

March 31: A huge carefully scripted ceremony at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square sent the torch off across the globe

April 3: In Istanbul, Turkey, the Uighur expat community staged demonstrations against Chinese persecution of their “brother” expats in Xinjiang. In February 2007, for example, an Uigur activist named Ismail Semed, was executed on the shaky grounds of attempting to “split the motherland” and possessing explosives.

April 6: Massive clashes occurred between Free Tibet protesters and police during the London relay. Thirty-seven protesters were arrested including a man who tried to snatch the torch away from one of the runners. Another tried to put out the torch with a fire extinguisher. Read More »

• Think you’re going through a dry spell? “The average [amount of sex oppourtunities] in the engineering school is probably like once a semester.” Tragic. (Miami Herald)

• The French Prime Minister’s son likes poop. And Facebook! And embarrassing his family! (Telegraph.co.uk)

• “Having women well represented in the corporate boardroom can help improve financial performance.” Maybe with that extra money we can all get paid equally…maybe? (Yahoo!)

• Why is it that I could feasibly post a variation of this story everyday? Stop the madness! (Telegraph.co.uk)

• Some fat guy ate 21 pounds of grits and won $4,000. That works out to be about $190 a pound. It was for the glory, people! (seattlepi.com)

There are a lot of things about France that, despite trying hard to understand, I just can’t wrap my head around. First—tight pants. The men there wear the tightest pants you have ever seen, and it is not cute. Not at all. In fact, it’s really disturbing.

Second—Serge Gainsbourg. Monsieur Gainsbourg is a French icon—a singer, songwriter, film writer, philanderer, sex god. Actually you might as well think of him as the second coming of the Messiah. People there worship him, and I can’t quite figure out why.

I haven’t heard a ton of his music—French music is another thing that I don’t get. It’s almost good… but not so much. And Serge is just about the farthest thing from sexy that I can imagine. Ok—in his younger years he wasn’t so bad, but I imagine he wore really tight pants too.

His daughter Charlotte, on the other hand, personifies French beauty. She is just stunning. And talented. Serge rocketed young Charlotte to fame at the tender age of 13 by recording a duet with her called Lemon Incest. Yup, you read that right.

He also wrote a film for his young daughter in which she was stripped down, and crawls seductively into bed with her loving, doting father, The whole thing is just weird. Which makes it kind of amazing that she seems so normal now.

Charlotte has been acting in French films for decades now winning awards all over the place. Check out The Science of Sleep if you’d like to see her acting chops—the movie is great and she stars opposite the adorable Gael Garcia Bernal.

In the 80’s she recorded her first solo album, and since then has made numerous appearances on others artist’s records. She sang backup on Badly Drawn Boy’s Have You Fed the Fish, and appears in Madonna’s What It Feels Like for A Girl (she does the spoken intro).

But she finally released another solo album—5:55—and in my opinion, it’s beautiful. Charlotte is shy on the mic—apparently in order to record, she had to sing with a sheet over her head That shyness comes through, but it makes the album somewhat mysterious, and haunting. It’s almost as if Charlotte is letting you in on a little secret. Read More »

File this under S-I-C-K.

A French website, advertising a farm called Le Petit Singly, claims to sell a special type of cheese…made out of human breast milk.

The site—which is in French, therefore making it impossible for me to truly know what’s going on—claims that women’s breast milk has a light “hazelnut” flavor and every single one of their wedges is certified organic (which means the women who “donated” had to be on a vegetarian, organic diet themselves).

If you want my two cents, I think the whole thing is a hoax. Who in their right mind would donate extra boob juice so someone could make it into cheese?

I can actually believe there are people out there who would want to try it, but unless these mothers are making bank, I can’t imagine anyone allowing some farmer to curdle milk that came out of their breasts. Is nothing sacred anymore?!

Just grab a nice slice of cheddar and leave the B Milk to the babies. They’re the ones who actually need it.

If you’re lucky, you’ll be studying abroad this summer instead of taking a load off and “relaxing” (aka being unemployed) or working at Barnes and Noble (which is how my summers typically go). To avoid such occupational plagues, I decided to go to France last summer even though I didn’t really know French and I hate cheese. Nevertheless, I learned a thing or two about our neighbors overseas and being an American on old, foreign soil.

1. Blend in. The problem with studying abroad is that the experience tends to lack authenticity — You go abroad only to find yourself surrounded by more Americans than in America. And these Americans can be fairly “exotic” themselves (in my program there was a tribe of Mormons).

In many cases American students abroad make no bones about their nationality and flaunt it by traveling in large, loud groups, bumping and grinding in discotheques, speaking odd Franglish and buying bottles of champagne by the crate to drink in the streets. My best advice is to stray from the American wolf pack and try to pass as a native. It’s a fun challenge that prompted a man to feel me up on a bus in Paris because he thought I was German. Close enough. Read More »