So, do you need proof that the American car industry is a goner? Or that America, as a force for what’s awesome and cool, is dead? Or, that the generation that is “twee,” has claimed victory?

Behold GM’s official dance routine performed at the LA Auto Show – set to the song “Chevy Volt and Me.”

I’d fetch a bucket.

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So there you have it: the official car for fragile flowers, those Narnian fauns conceived at the Lilith Faire, who steer with tiny hooves, listening to Dido, desperately clutching a worn copy of Deepak Chopra’s latest caftan caper.

Sure, the “car” is tiny – but there’s enough room for the yoga mat, a bag of Craisins and a papermache sculpture of the tree nymph you did at the Learning Annex (it helped you get over the hypnotherapist who dumped you).

I kid – that’s not the type of person driving a Volt – because they can’t afford this sanctimonious sardine can. (more…)

So, I got another letter from Deepak Chopra’s son, Gotham – regarding my response to his previous missive about my Gregalogue on his dad claiming his meditations caused a recent quake. HIS NEW letter is REALLY long, so, I’ll just respond to bits and pieces. [his letter is in bold, my responses are in "not bold."]

Gotham and Deepak Chopra

Dear Greg:
Before you pass too much judgement on the Chopra Center and all of the various treatments you’vE already concluded have no benefit – or are too expensive – you may want to speak to someone who’s been through them. That’s what a journalist would do.

Goth, for ten years I worked in health mags, so I can smell new age clap trap a mile away. I know what catch phrases like “holistic” and “healing” mean. They mean “Pay me tons of cash for crap that does nothing but make you poor.” And believe me I don’t want to talk to anyone whose dumb enough to fork out thousands at the Chopra Center. Chances are they will show me pictures of their cat’s aura, while drinking their own urine.
Onto the next part of GC’s letter…. (more…)

So Deepak Chopra, otherwise known as “the dude full of poop,” has finally taken responsibility for something awful that isn’t one of his books. I am referring to Sunday’s 7.2 earthquake along the border of Mexican and the United States.

He wrote to his Twitter followers (who I like to call Twits, because anyone following Deepak, has to be one):

“Had a powerful meditation just now — caused an earthquake in Southern California.”

Later, he added:

“Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake.” “Sorry about that.”

I suppose this passes for humor in the Chopra household, or he might have been serious. Either way, it’s kinda odd. If he’s kidding, then it’s always nice to see a practitioner of peace joking about an event that kills a few people. (more…)

Deepak Chopra is a deep thinker. Fooled you! Apparently some people think he is, however, foremost among them himself. And possibly his friends at the Huffington Post, where they recently posted not the usual pseudo- spiritual blabber he peddles on Oprah but rather a critique of Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties, Evil Right Wingers, and ultimately the entire American people. No, really. And it is quite an interesting piece, but not for the reasons our guru suspects. 

Chopra begins, complaining about Sarah Palin’s latest ‘seductive untruth’ delivered at the Tea Party convention: 

Her complaint about the Christmas bomber “lawyering up” wasn’t about finding the right policy against terrorists. It was a come-on to the Tea Party’s prejudices, egging them to believe that what Muttalab deserved was a dose of good old fashioned torture.   (more…)

So yesterday on the Huffington Post, Deepak Chopra published yet another anti-American screed – this time lamenting the fact that we’re the last remaining superpower. He says the world would be a better place if the US just packed it in as a leader, and to quote Lennon, “give peace a chance!” In it he writes, “America leads the world in arms dealing, starting wars, and developing new methods of mechanized death,” conveniently leaving out all the incidental stuff that comes with being a heavily armed, supercool, superpower. Meaning, saving millions of lives by ending world wars, getting rid of dictators, stopping famine and assorted civil conflicts, and preventing mass disease. Chopra also hilariously vomits that, “Peace is achieved by being peaceful, no matter what the military-industrial complex claims to the contrary.”

Tell that to the Iranian voters, jackass. (more…)

So apparently the Obama administration will be announcing a review of our terror alert system put in place by George W. Bush after 9/11. You know the thing: it’s made up of five delightful colors designating increasing levels of risk: green, blue, yellow, orange and red. But many people–not just Democrats–think it’s time for a reevaluation. And I couldn’t agree more!

New Age guru Deepak Chopra

But if we get a new system, I think it should incorporate Obama’s own philosophy on terror, which he espoused in the debates prior to the election. He had stated that we should bear in mind the root causes behind terrorist behavior. And, with this sensitivity in mind, I believe the system of colors–which reeks of racism, anyway–should be replaced by levels of indignation. (more…)