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24 Sep 2013

Conflict Kitchen

photo cred | Today

There are two ways to attract me to your restaurant. 1. The food itself. 2. The reviews I read about it and other people’s experiences eating there. Conflict Kitchen is a concept that got me curious because it is a restaurant that changes its menus to reflect the country that is currently conflicting with the United States. Their current focus? Cuba!

I think one of my favorite restaurants back in Seattle – Coastal Kitchen – has a rotating menu, but the fact that you can learn a bit of history, culture, and politics from eating at Conflict Kitchen is exciting! Conflict Kitchen is located in Pittsburgh, PA. Check out their website and current menu here.

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09 Dec 2010

What do you think of when…

You begin to type your state into Google. This is the United States according to autocomplete. It’s unfortunate that Washington State’s autocomplete refers to something that belongs to Washington DC. How embarrassing.

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28 Apr 2010

China Playing Dirrrrty

This past Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee made the decision to strip China’s Gymnastics team of their bronze medal after discovering one gymnast was underage during the 2000 Olympic games.

The United States will be receiving the bronze instead. (YAYAYA!)

It turns out that during the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia, one of their athletes was only 14 years old. According to the rule book, you must be at least 16 – not pre-teen status basically.

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This is how it begins.

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30 Sep 2009

The 7 deadly sins. Party in the … USA?!

According to Wired Magazine, they have highlighted the most wrathful areas in the United States in the form of a map. That would include, lust, greed, envy, pride etc.

Lust – # of STD cases reported per capita

Dangggg southern part of the country.

Check out the rest of the sins here

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04 Aug 2009

Clinton Saves the Day!

Today, journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were finally pardoned after their arrest in North Korea on March 17th.

Former President Bill Clinton, made an unnanounced trip to North Korea today to meet with the country’s leader Kim Jong ll to negotiate a release on these two women.

And I’m not going to give my summary because Yahoo news did it a lot better here

But this is great news, I’m glad this has been resolved.

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05 Jun 2009

Rubina Ali writes her own memoir

I don’t think the Slumdog Millionaire child stars could ever stop amazing me. These kids have gone through so much in their lives. The movie brought them great success, but nonetheless they are still living in the slums. Recently, the young star who plays young Latika in the movie had her home demolished by authorities in India. However, on July 16th, she will be releasing her memoir in the UK and the United States.

A statement from publishers TransWorld promises, “(Ali) tells her own incredible story, from playing marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar in Mumbai, to dancing along to the Bollywood films she and her family watch on their old television se