Guys with earrings who piss in the garbage can

Rules to live by

As I set pen to paper here, I'm thinking about how my cooking channels viewing has changed over the past decade.  Shows that I couldn't get enough of, like Emeril Live and Iron Chef, no longer hold my interest.  My new favs are found on the Travel Channel. Andrew Zimmern's  Bizarre Foods , Adam Richman's Man v. Food,  and Anthony Bourdain's  No Reservations.  All three are about eating, not cooking food (a fact that just struck me.  Ahem)  Anyway, last night Anthony Bourdain is in Nicaragua , which linked clip stops short of what I want to tell you.  Bourdain is dining with this young Nicaraguan host, and is positively intent on revisiting The 1980s Sandnista revolution (which left Nicaragua as the poorest nation in the central America).  The kid says he is too young to remember those bad days, and Bourdain responds: "Everything I knew or heard about that era was colored by my distaste for Reagan and Oliver North." Why did he do that?  I was already a little leery of him for wearing an earring, and since he's a Manhattan guy, had I bothered to think about his politics, which I never did, his chance of being a Liberal asshat was on the order of 100 to 1.  Anyway, I flicked channels, and did not watch the two new episodes that followed. Not because I wanted to exact some kind of revenge.  Because now,  whenever I see him, the first thing that will come to mind is that crack. He and I could never share the same table, because if we did I'd be compelled to bring up Reagan, and that conversation could only end badly.  Maybe I'll get over it in time. But why pee in garbage can to begin with?  If you're an entertainer looking for the biggest possible following?