Vegan Strip Club, Really?

Yesterday I watching the news and heard that Corey Booker, the Mayor of Newark NJ who is running for Senate had a controversy brewing because he was responding to tweets from a stripper.   I don’t think this stripper identified herself as such in the tweets so how was he supposed to know?  Especially since this particular stripper works in Oregon and not at just any strip club, at the country’s first vegan strip club.

Now Corey Booker is single so he is not cheating on anyone and as far as the news reported he did not tweet out any salacious photos like some other Yankee politicians, so where is the story?  It has got to be the vegan part that is driving all this news.  Vegan is the new black, no connection to Booker who also happens to be African American, which used to be the old black.

To me vegan is the new hip too, look if Bill Clinton can give up cheeseburgers, that means not ever eating neither the cheese nor the burger, then it is hitting mainstream.  What I am confused about is what vegan has to do with naked women?  Are the strippers who work there vegan and don’t like one dollar bills that have buffalo hot wings remnants on them tucked into their g-strings?  Sure the hot sauce could sting, but the hot is from chilies and they are vegan.

It seems to me that if you want to make news you either declare yourself vegan, you take off your clothes, or you tweet something outrageous.  If you do all three you are sure to make all three morning news shows.  So I am declaring myself right here and right now, NOT a vegan.  I am keeping all my clothes on for the good of the human race.  And even though I have a twitter account I don’t think I have actually ever tweeted anything other than one test message two years ago.  No news here!

I am perfectly happy for people to eat what ever they want, but I am getting tired of the vegan announcements and attention people are getting for forgoing eating all animal products.  Good for you, but I don’t care.  I wonder if Mr. Booker would have been caught up in this non-controversy if the stripper who tweeted her support for his candidacy had just worked at a regular old seedy strip club that served sausage-on-a-stick, I think not.