President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan will include $300 billion in tax cuts for workers and businesses.

John Travolta’s son, Jett, died from a seizure at the age of 16 this past Friday. The family was vacationing in the Bahamas. The family released this statement on Sunday.

Professor Lang, of the United Kingdom’s Food Council says that the current food production system is outdated and doomed to fail as the population increases. Lang advocates incorporating methods that work with biodiversity and within the environment’s comfort zone.

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson brought in the New Year with a bang. Apparently the two started fighting while hosting a New Year’s Eve party in Miami, and didn’t stop till they boarded the plane back to L.A. Looks like someone didn’t get their kiss at midnight, and we all know what that means…

Speaking of calling it quits, Kelly Rutherford (Lily, mom of Serena on Gossip Girl) is not only pregnant, but she has filed for divorce from her husband of two years, Daniel Giersch. Unfortunately for Kelly, the German entreprenuer has a history of winning courtcases, he beat Google in a court battle over the domain gmail.de. This means Germans are deprived of gmail addresses, instead they have to use googlemail.

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Recent studies indicate that high blood sugar may cause you to forget your mother. The facts (as substantiated in test groups of monkeys, rodents, and prune-y old men): Spikes in blood glucose levels cramp blood flow to the dentate gyrus, a memory control panel located in the hippocampus (which is just north of your face). In addition to the elderly, these findings also identify overweight kids – right, Mary-Kate? – and those with Type 2 Diabetes as primary at-risk candidates.

Ah, the proverbial light bulb. Suddenly we understand why the ladies in that 90210-spinoff (picture above) refuse to eat. Duh, they just don’t want to flub their really well-written lines of genius dialogue. Thusly, we take you inside the actor’s refrigerator, where one might uncover culinary delights such as purified oxygen and algae. Nothing never tasted so green.

Now, if we may, an experiment: Make a list of all the people, places, and crimes-of-fashion you want to forget. And every time you see any one of ‘em, take a big swig of maple syrup. Observe: Carrot Top. Swig. This house. Swig. Canada’s eco-friendly, eye-traumatic Olympic apparel. Glugglugglugglug…

Irene, Shih Spoke

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If we were Miley Cyrus, our New Year’s Resolution list would read as follows:

1. Tell Dad/Billy Ray to stop using that mayonnaise conditioner. Sweet niblets, it smells!

2. Call up Annie Leibovitz and see when she’s free for a full out nudie photo shoot (tastefully, duh).

3. Dump Justin (Jason? What’s his name again?) and subsequently make a plea for Nick Jonas’ undying love and affection.

Sadly, we’re not Miley, so our resolutions don’t count and hers do. She claims her big goals are to “eat healthy” and to “exercise more.” We wonder if Miley knows getting’ dirty with Justin (Jason?) counts as exercise. We’re guessing Billy Ray taught her that little fun factoid long ago. Them hillbillies, always lookin’ for a way to get down and dirty!

We’re sending dear Miles a little gift package in honor of the New Year, and we’re definitely putting this organic cotton nighty in there. Justin (Jason?) will love the low cut mini dress. We’ll cue the violins when our gift pops up on Miley’s myspace page in a few weeks.

Sarah

Ferragamo is going green! Finally, someone other than Stella McCartney has taken to designing eco-friendly high fashion. The Italian fashion house has created a line of biodegradable bags for Spring under the name Eco Ferragamo, in order to highlight the company’s focus on global conservation. Now, if they could work on getting the bags below the $1000 mark…

The New York Public Library wants to make some money, and they’re thinking we all need tiaras. Now, that’s not something I’d normally argue with (everyone deserves a tiara!), but the tiaras are being designed in honor of the Princess Diary films, which just doesn’t make sense. I love Anne Hathaway both pre and post rats nest hair, but I don’t believe the movies merit an auction. However, LC designed one, so maybe I’ll bet on that.

Speaking of LC, her girl Whitney’s show, The City, debuted Monday night on MTV. The fashion is way covetable, but Olivia Palermo is a) annoying, b) malicious and c) seemingly dumb as dirt. Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to insult a “social.” I wouldn’t want to fight Olivia, but only because her face of makeup might fall off and then I’d have to see the real her. EESH.

Purchase a LA GARÇONNE tee and 25% of the selling price will go to The Girl Effect, an organization that encourages the power of adolescent girls in the developing world to bring social and economic change. We can holler at that.

What did you wear on New Years Eve? I wore a blue dress from Forever 21 that, I admit, wasn’t green (if only I could afford that zippered Philip Lim, soo hot and soo ecofriendly). However, our recent stalkage of the Forevs website revealed this green tote. Grocery carryall, anyone?

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Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. Bristol Palin’s genetic extension has inspired a deluge of morbid fascination. In addition to cha-chinging $300K from People Magazine for a premiere photo shoot, tiny Tripp has also begun to entertain inquiries about his perfectly (sub)standard Amurrican name.

Mayor Panto of Easton, Pennsylvania, is ready to pop a vein, er, cork, on what he deems an ode to his city; Easton Apparel, a top manufacturer of hockey equipment, may also lay claim to the infamy. We, however, think the above conjectures, um, palin comparison to the likelihood that he was named for Easton (a town in Bristol County), Massachusetts. And “Tripp” probably comes from the Latin root of when they all took a tripp to there.

Governor-hockey-mom-maverick-nanny-granny Palin, last seen scorching the globe with her hot campaign-funded suit jackets (and she says global warming ain’t anthropogenic), has yet to comment.

Irene, Shih Spoke

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In a recent interview, Johnny Depp admitted that he spent much of the nineties sauced, in an effort to deal with his meteoric rise to fame. Though celebrity substance abuse is nothing new, we must admit we were oddly relieved to know that Depp was drunk when he agreed to do movies like Benny & Joon, Cry-Baby, and Don Juan DeMarco. Knowing he was inebriated helps to somewhat excuse him from his participation in these movies. The only unfortunate thing is that Depp’s poison of choice was not as environmentally friendly as some of the alcoholic beverages being produced today. Global beverages firm, Foster’s Group, has been developing ‘green’ beer that has a zero impact of carbon emissions that are generated during the lifecycle of beer, from the picking of the hops to putting the empty bottle in a recycling bin. If you’re going to be tanked for an entire decade, do it up right.

Carolyn

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Hello, 2009! Nothing like a good wake and bake to take the edge off. I’m talking about my sticky buns. It was a late one last night and getting a taxi was a fucking bear. I thought my manhood was lost completely after ten minutes of fighting drunken maniacs in the freezing cold for the ZERO cabs on 14th Street. Maybe that was some sort of karmic punishment for going to Pop Burger at four in the morning.

2008 has to be one of the most historic years ever, right? We elected Barack Obama. I could stop there, but a lot of other stuff happened. Some of it great, some of it tragic, and I think we covered it all. Like TV’s Gossip Girl; the collapse of the financial markets; the Olympics in China; the ascension of Disney stars like Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers; Heath Ledger and “The Dark Knight”; the cyclone in Burma; the Giants winning the Super Bowl!; fuel versus food; terrorists in India; it’s Britney, bitch; Sarah Palin; and large hadron colliders?

2009 has a tough act to follow. If the Obama Administration reasserts America’s might and brain capital in the electricity department, that would be a really good start. And I hate to sound all commie, but if the private sector fails to address certain environmental issues, we don’t have a laissez-faire free market system. The government can and should gently nudge industry in a less destructive direction. They’re an easy target, but if the American auto industry were subject to stricter standards set by Clinton or Bush, do you think they would have fallen behind so many of their foreign competitors?

Well, the holidays are over and so begin the most depressing few days of the year. We’ll never be able to wear cheesy 2000 glasses ever again. I just don’t see how you could make “2010” work as a pair of novelty shades. And lastly, don’t you hate it when you’re out and a fun song comes on, and a circle of people envelops you, and before you know it you’re in the middle of an impromptu dance battle? Thank god for the Flying Charleston and the Crip Walk.

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Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol gave birth to son Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Sunday. Even more interesting than the baby’s name is the tabloid bidding war for the first pictures of the bundle of joy. Or should we say lack of a bidding war. There wasn’t much interest in the pics until baby daddy Levi Johnston’s mother was arrested on a drug charge a couple weeks ago. Reportedly, People Magazine won the pictures for $300,000. There is no word on what they are going to do with the money, but we hope they at least pay for a decent lawyer for the grandmother since she is the one who got them such a good price. Now, as if teen parenthood and soon-to-be in-law drama isn’t overwhelming enough, Bristol will have to face the age old diaper debate—cloth or plastic. But she may not have to choose at all. A new product, gdiapers, are flushable diapers that can also be thrown away guilt-free. They will break down in a landfill in just 90 days instead of the 500 years it takes for disposable plastic diapers to disintegrate.

Christine

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Ever since Holly Madison left the Playboy mansion, she’s been quite busy. Girlfriend didn’t waste any time finding herself a man after Hef officially confirmed that he didn’t want any children. The man she found, however, was an odd choice: Criss Angel, Mindfreak, aka, the weirdo “magician” who’s made the rounds through most of Hollywood.

Holly’s cohort Kendra recently got engaged to her footballer boyfriend, and Holly simply couldn’t have Kendra with the annoying laugh getting all the attention. She and the freak were spotted “looking at rings” in Vegas. Holly’s reps claim it was a birthday present, and we’re breathing a collective sigh of relief. We always liked Holly. She seems semi-normal, underneath the fake boobs and fake face.

Criss was seen whipping out his credit card for the “gift”, so only time will tell if it’s more than just a birthday token of affection. Maybe by the time he really proposes, he’ll use a biodegradable credit card from Discover to purchase the wedding jewels. Cause everyone knows you get extra karma points if you spend green by using something green.

Sarah

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For New Year’s Eve, the hot spots always seem to be, well, hot spots. Whether for work, like Lindsay and Sam who hosted a NYE party in Miami, or play, like George Clooney who is lounging somewhere on a beach in Cabo right now, NYE means fun in the sun for celebrities. Beyonce and Jay-Z are celebrating in the Caribbean, Jen and John are in Cabo, Mariah Carey and Nick Canon are in St. Barts, and Gerard Butler is in Miami to ring in the new year. Hopefully these stars are taking proper precautions and wearing sunscreen. Though sunscreen is important, it is often made of harsh chemicals. A new all natural supplement by Lyc-O-Mato’s is made from tomatoes and helps fight free radicals and harmful UV rays. This supplement is a move in the right direction toward alternative, safer skin care.

Christine

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