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Maxim Sci-Fine

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Maxim have put together a new list entitled, Sci-Fine: Geekdom's Baddest Babes. Nice to see Tricia Helfer and Grace Park getting mentions, but more pertinent is Natalie also making the…

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Top Chef Tonight

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Natalie's Top Chef appearance is on BRAVO tonight, but if you can't wait for then, Just Jared have a great pictorial preview of tonight's episode. Padma and Padme together at…

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Meat Eaters Bite Back

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This update is a follow up to yesterday’s Huffington Post piece in which Natalie wrote about the book Eating Animals and her own thoughts on the topic.

Now, I am a meat eater. I don’t smoke, I never drink alcohol by choice (I relent in certain rare social situations), I don’t do drugs, and I don’t even drink coffee. But damn, I love a good hamburger.

So if any group is being targeted by that piece, its whatever group I’m in (30 minutes ago I had chicken pieces on sticks…why is everything better on sticks?). I disagreed with certain aspects, I thought some thoughts were very nicely written while others were a little weak, and at the end of the day I thought, “I’m not going to be putting down the steak knife anytime soon, but good for you for having that commitment to do so.”

What I didn’t feel was any kind of offense or outrage, yet it seems that that is exactly how some people took it. So I read the “rape” paragraph again and I just really struggle to see how anyone can make that leap from an over the top analogy to “Natalie thinks I’m as bad as a rapist for eating meat.”
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Tuesday Tidbits

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Today we have a special celebrity edition of mini updates. - Is Natalie a friend of Ivanka Trump? Apparently Natalie attended her wedding in New Jersey, although the groom is…

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