April 03, 2010
— Jack M. You know what you call it when you interview one crank and make sweeping generalizations with no basis in fact?
Besides a MSM story about the Tea Parties, I mean.
You can call it a lot of things, I suppose. "Intellectually lazy" comes to mind. "Vapid" could apply. "Insulting" seems appropriate.
But what do you call it when you do the above while gratuitously inserting cult of personality passages designed solely to attest to the benevolence of the ruling cartel?
You call it "Propaganda". And today the Baltimore Sun's Jill "Pravda" Rosen reveals she certainly would feel comfortable asking you to believe that Kim Jong Il just finished his round 38 strokes under par. Now, I know what some of you are thinking. Who is Jill Rosen? And why are you punching down by deigning to cover some fluff piece in the Baltimore Sun? I mean is an article entitled "Parents Cutting Down on Easter Candy" really worth a blog post?
And I answer: Shut. Up.
No...I really answer: "Yes, it is." Because even though this is a nothing-burger of an article written by someone who is probably a recent graduate of journalism school and trying hard to be promoted to writing classified ads, it is revealing of many of the institutional biases that exist within the dominant media culture.
Look at me spouting all these big worded observations. Next week, I'm going to wheel out a "virtual chalkboard" and go all Glenn Beck-ish on your asses.
Let's break this story down, shall we? Pretend I'm that guy who does the 90 minute Star Wars reviews, except that I have known the touch of a woman.
MSM Trick Number One: Establish the Crank as the Relatable Lead Character:
When she was growing up, Jen Kitchen's Easter baskets were "always, always, always" brimming with candy - the foil eggs, the jelly beans nestled in synthetic grass, the sturdy chocolate rabbit.
She was your average all-American girl! So relatable! I think I really like this stranger of whom I've never heard of before. Please tell me more about her.
MSM Trick Number Two: Have the Crank Do Something Goofy to Pique Your Interest
But this weekend, her three young children will get nothing of the sugary sort in their baskets. No cream-filled eggs. Not one Peep. "Not even one little jelly bean," the Mount Airy mother says.
Wait? What? Are her kids being punished? What the hell is this? Is Jen Kitchen a complete bitch? There has to be more to this story than what we are being told...
MSM Trick Number Three: Make Something Most People Would Laugh At A Serious Statement of Principle, and, if possible, diminish Christianity as an added bonus
Instead, Kitchen's twins, who are almost 4, and her 2-year-old son will get baskets stuffed with movies, dolls and plastic eggs jingling with pennies. There will be soap bubbles and sidewalk chalk to encourage them to get outside and celebrate spring. And for snacking, she's tossing in granola bars, raisins and mini-boxes of Kashi cereal.
Kashi cereal? Really? Really? Hey folks...if you are one of Jen Kitchen's neighbors, I would advise you to steer you children away from her house on Halloween. She's obviously the one kook on every block that tries to force UNICEF pennies on your kids in lieu of sweet, sweet, tootsie rolls.
But what bothered me the most about this passage wasn't the ridiculous gifts that Jen Kitchen gives to her little kids. Truth be told, I don't really care what the heck she gives them. I don't know the brats. What hit me was Rosen's subtle redefinition of Easter.
Did you catch it the first time? Kitchen's children were being given "soap bubbles" and "sidewalk chalk" to commemorate not the Resurrection but to "celebrate spring". In poker, that's called a "tell." As in "I'm telling you, this Kitchen woman seems like a crank." Not that you would get that directly from the article championing her, though. You kinda have to read between the lines.
This year, parents like Kitchen are joining the food police and pulling something of a citizen's arrest on the Easter Bunny, seizing his candy and forcing him to reconsider his longtime gifts.
Parents? Really? How many besides Kitchen are doing this? How do you know that this is some kind of craze sweeping the nation? What evidence do you offer to show this isn't just the isolated action of some local goofball? Wouldn't you be able to measure if this were true by checking to see how candy sales are doing nationally? Do you have anything at all on which to base this contention on Miss Rosen besides your desire that it be true?
MSM Trick Number Four: Never waste a chance to kiss up to the regime. It might get you access down the road.
With the warnings on childhood obesity and first lady Michelle Obama's ever-present messages on healthy kids, more parents have apparently decided to pass on the sweets and start new, sugar-free Easter traditions.
How the hell did Michelle Obama get into this story? Did Kitchen cite Obama's "ever-present messages" as the source of her inspiration to ruin her kids Easter? You don't quote her doing that. And where are these "ever-present messages" anyway? I haven't seen any of them. I have seen a lot of Michelle Obama (Ed note: really, how can you not?) touting the need to donate to Haiti relief. But I'm pretty sure I've only seen a handful of news stories talking about "childhood obesity" stuff. Does a handful of mentions "ever-present messaging" make?
Probably not. But it makes it look like Americans are boldly responding to Michelle Obama's clarion call for immediate action. Which is exactly the point, isn't it Miss Rosen?
MSM Trick Number Five: Bury the Lede Because it's Inconvenient to the Story Narrative
The nascent health push, which has yet to put a dent in the nation's candy consumption, has candy makers unfazed.
And there you have it.....80% of the way down the article, the key measurement which could validate the entire premise of this article (Jen Kitchen is a one woman microcosm of Americans responding to Michelle Obama's leadership) shows the entire thesis to be.......bogus.
Nice work, Miss Rosen. You are truly a Seinfeldian reporter. You just wrote a whole article on nothing.
MSM Trick Number Six: Shift the Focus off of the Fact that the Narrative Arc of the Story is Badly Broken by bringing in an 'expert" to validate the writers emotional need to have it be true anyway
The article closes with some goofy "fat camp" operator talking about how many kids are fat and blah, blah, blah.
Im not gonna excerpt it (fair use and all that) but I've linked the Rosen piece so if you really want to see it you can.
The whole thing is just sad, really. Who would have thought that in the land of the First Amendment, you could learn more from reading around a news article than by reading it directly.
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Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 03, 2010 03:50 PM (+h5Yt)
And they say the Right is against fun.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 03:53 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Blaster at April 03, 2010 03:54 PM (Ye+70)
Posted by: People's Republic of Baltimore at April 03, 2010 03:54 PM (5HEMF)
Posted by: nevergiveup at April 03, 2010 03:56 PM (753lI)
And everyday, we get more of the same on the nightly news.
I say we take the authors advice and turn off all the MSM feeds and get outside more - like more trips to the range.
Posted by: USCitizen at April 03, 2010 03:56 PM (eNLJG)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at April 03, 2010 03:56 PM (QeWQ8)
Posted by: The Blue States at April 03, 2010 03:57 PM (ucq49)
Posted by: ErikW at April 03, 2010 03:57 PM (LXF3Z)
Hey, they are at least as full of self esteem as twinkies.
A thank you would be nice...
Posted by: The NEA at April 03, 2010 03:57 PM (bgcml)
Only after the Raid's cleared out. The "low irritant, fast kill" kind.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 03:58 PM (c0A3e)
stuffed with movies
I though the violence (but not sex. sex is good!) in movies was far more damaging than candy?
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at April 03, 2010 03:58 PM (NA7sd)
Oh, this is where Christ, uh, led his people out of Egypt, right?
Posted by: Jill Rosen at April 03, 2010 03:59 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: Baltimore Sun Write at April 03, 2010 04:00 PM (+h5Yt)
Posted by: Jack M. at April 03, 2010 04:00 PM (Ncr1R)
We always had stuff like that in our Easter baskets, too, next to the (hollow, and usually too cute to eat) chocolate bunny. Worth noting that neither bubbles nor chalk are aerobic activities.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 03, 2010 04:00 PM (RwvOw)
Posted by: NotAMolly at April 03, 2010 04:01 PM (ADJFU)
Also in the plastic eggs (which Jen made sure are made from recylced plastic) will be a copy of Mein Kampf to, you know, broaden her kid's minds about different ways to lead a country. Jen doesn't her kids growing jingoists.
Posted by: This is Coffin at April 03, 2010 04:01 PM (00r+V)
Posted by: eman at April 03, 2010 04:01 PM (3fzoU)
Moses helped...somewhat.
/Seriously, Jen Kitchen, there isn't a problem with you wanted to "celebrate Spring". But the spring equinox was March 21st...why ruin Easter?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:01 PM (c0A3e)
No Easter Basket is complete without a carton of Camels, 2 six-packs, a box of condoms, and a pair of handcuffs.
You forgot ladles!
Posted by: Evil Ladle Cabal at April 03, 2010 04:02 PM (Gk/wA)
No, you haven't. Stop making stuff up.
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 03, 2010 04:02 PM (trjej)
The piece was 100% fluff. But there was a picture of our heroes in one of their McMansions (which oddly lefties love to hate almost as much as they love to live in). In the picture you could see paper, folders, computers, and imported Italian water.
That's right, our enviro-crusaders were importing their drinking water from another continent.
And no one at the LAT noticed...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2010 04:03 PM (bgcml)
Was that before or after the TRO?
I don't load the boy's Easter basket up with sweets. First off, he's not that fond of them. Secondly, I get more bang for the buck giving him toys and games. But yes, there is the eternal chocolate bunny. Always.
Bottom line (for me) anyway, is that candy is expensive, at least as expensive as little toys and puzzles if not more so.
Long gone are the days of "It ain't Easter 'til one of the kids pukes up a bunch of Peeps"
Posted by: mpur in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:03 PM (tr6Dy)
You can't say Easter. That's mixing church and state. It's just a spring holiday with bunnies and colored eggs. Or in this case, Kashi cereal and sidewalk chalk.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:03 PM (gofDd)
I once got a breast-plate and a sword (alas, both plastic) in my Easter basket. That poor little sapling...
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:03 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: George Orwell at April 03, 2010 04:03 PM (AZGON)
if possible, diminish Christianity as an added bonus
If you saw Obozo's weekly address it is supposedly concerning Easter. And, of course, he mentions Muslims and Hindus. What the fuck does that have to do with Easter? Easter is a Christian holy day. I'm telling you, this is not my country anymore. Not the country I grew up in. It sickens me.
Posted by: Pocono Joe at April 03, 2010 04:03 PM (N4IQd)
.
... I teach Sunday School, and I approved this message.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at April 03, 2010 04:04 PM (ruzrP)
And no one at the LAT noticed...
Notice what? That we both get our water from Italy?
Posted by: LA Times at April 03, 2010 04:04 PM (Gk/wA)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:04 PM (yfJ6g)
Perhaps this is religious bias by a Joo who doesn't believe in Christ (Dah huh, by definition she doesn't).
So Jill, if we had Matzo in our passover basket, would that have worked for you?
So, why doesn't anyone call out this religious bigotry? Just axing?
Posted by: Kemp at April 03, 2010 04:05 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: ErikW at April 03, 2010 07:57 PM (LXF3Z)
I knew I should have gone with the brussel sprouts.
Posted by: Jen Kitchen at April 03, 2010 04:05 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: Star Trek Nerd from Topeka, Kansas at April 03, 2010 04:05 PM (+h5Yt)
Posted by: Banhammer survivor at April 03, 2010 04:05 PM (ucq49)
My dad loves Peeps. Every Easter he buys them as soon as they go on sale. I think they're nasty and would much rather microwave them until they explode.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (gofDd)
It's not to "celebrate" it as much as to degrade it.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (c0A3e)
"Truth exists, The Incarnation happened." 5 words that sum up all history.
There has been a strong athiestic trend in all written stuff. Especially for kids.
Find one reference to God in an average modern cartoon or character for kids
Even Dora and Diego, the sterotype Hispanic, there is nothing remotely religious.Who hasnt been to a hispanic's house, and the mother has a shrine, full of statues and candles. Try and find that at her mother or grandmother's house.
and dont even get me started on Thomas, where the Reverend is mentioned as a beekeeper, and who rescues a steam tractor from the scrapper. But nary a prayer.
I think we need kids stuff with religion, if for nothing else but to piss off the liberals.
Posted by: Cromagnum at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (UGrme)
Every year I buy a box of Peeps bunnies, even though I can't eat more than one anymore. I think they remind me of my grandmother.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (RwvOw)
Posted by: Jack M. at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (Ncr1R)
Posted by: Fish at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at April 03, 2010 04:06 PM (NA7sd)
Posted by: Thrifty Heeb with a sweet tooth at April 03, 2010 04:07 PM (8WOM0)
So you were supposed to be a Roman centurion? That explains an awful lot...
/jk
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:07 PM (yfJ6g)
MURDERER!!!!!11111!!!!!!1111!!!!1!
Posted by: PETA at April 03, 2010 04:07 PM (Gk/wA)
With the warnings on childhood obesity and first lady Michelle Obama's ever-present messages on healthy kids, more parents have apparently decided to pass on the sweets and start new, sugar-free Easter traditions.
We're all going to miss the days when Michelle Obama's ever-present image was on Jumbotrons everywhere you go.
Posted by: Cicero at April 03, 2010 04:07 PM (KrRnU)
I like to ask the Lefties that at Christmas. Um, if it has no bearing on you, why ruin it for everyone else? No one says you have to celebrate the holidays.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:07 PM (gofDd)
Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them.
Besides, the Blade of Olympus >>>>>>> "the touch of a woman".
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:08 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: George Orwell at April 03, 2010 04:08 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:09 PM (gofDd)
Here's one of my presents to my 97-year old mother for Easter.
Goo Goo Clusters are old time candy and mom loves 'um. Screw Jill.
Posted by: Fish at April 03, 2010 04:10 PM (M5t+h)
The last laugh will be on the daringly unconventional Jen Kitchen when her retarded kids go full Biden and eat the sidewalk chalk and drink all the soap bubbles.
Posted by: Cicero at April 03, 2010 04:10 PM (KrRnU)
We're all going to miss the days when Michelle Obama's ever-present image was on Jumbotrons everywhere you go.
Posted by: Cicero at April 03, 2010 08:07 PM (KrRnU)
Don't forget exactly 50% of magazine covers every farking month.
Maybe I am mistaken, but isn't she going to be the prime boss in Doom 4?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2010 04:10 PM (bgcml)
Dr. Mike Bishop, who runs the national chain of Wellspring weight-loss camps for children, would like parents to figure out that a candy-less Easter could be a welcomed change.
Kids! Flee now!
Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2010 04:10 PM (Gk/wA)
How about a chocolate iPad?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2010 04:11 PM (Gk/wA)
It's because they're all control freaks with their heads jammed up their asses.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:11 PM (gofDd)
The last laugh will be on the daringly unconventional Jen Kitchen when her retarded kids go full Biden and eat the sidewalk chalk and drink all the soap bubbles.
Posted by: Cicero at April 03, 2010 08:10 PM (KrRnU)
Hey, it works better the metamucil, and why are you criticizing the one part of Obamacare I wrote?
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2010 04:11 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: chorus boy #2 at April 03, 2010 04:12 PM (KdA1d)
Exactly. If Christmas & Easter are really a lie, then they are harmless.
/But I don't believe they are a lie.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:12 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Mr. Proggressive at April 03, 2010 04:13 PM (+h5Yt)
lol, no. I think I was supposed to be He-Man.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:13 PM (c0A3e)
Kinda related: An actress friend of mine was working on a short film that a couple of hispanic guys wrote/produced/starred in. It was a POS, all about gang bangers scoring weed and fucking up. All through the script they're dropping F bombs and MF bombs. She comes in for her bit part as a pissed off mom, busts in the room and screams "Jesus Christ! What is wrong with you bastards?" The guys yell cut and admonish her, telling her not to take the Lord's name in vain.
She's a libtard and an atheist, and she simply did not get the distinction.
Posted by: mpur in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:13 PM (tr6Dy)
Ten Commandments is the one with Soylent Green saying, "nyeahhh, where's your God, now, Moses, nyeeeaaahh?"right?
Posted by: This is Coffin at April 03, 2010 04:14 PM (00r+V)
Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Meteors, Bacons, and Really Really Expensive Scotch at April 03, 2010 04:14 PM (erIg9)
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2010 04:14 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: George Orwell at April 03, 2010 08:08 PM (AZGON)
I went to a lefty art museum recently. Ugly exhibt after ugly exhibt. And I'm not saying this as an art snob - the works were intentionally ugly.
Except for a beautiful oil painting. A serene winter lake iced over.
Well, this piece stood out so I walked over to read the placard.
So and So Pond in the winter, shortly after two boys fell in and drowned to death.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2010 04:15 PM (bgcml)
Anxiously await the liberal inspired broccoli and carrot filled tomatoes shaped like Easter eggs to fool the kids. The Obama kids are on to the scam and won't be fooled by Aunt Zetuni, the liberal sage and black Easter Bunny bearing gifts of vegetables and tofu.
Posted by: Fish at April 03, 2010 04:15 PM (M5t+h)
Fine, harmless, right?
Quick: what's the only association of silver coins with Easter? You, there, in the back.
I didn't check to see if the package contained 40 of them or not.
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 03, 2010 04:15 PM (fEoAc)
I agree, & part of its message is closer to that of Easter. [That is, if taken in a positive sense.]
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:16 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Mr. Proggressive at April 03, 2010 04:16 PM (+h5Yt)
I agree, & part of its message is closer to that of Easter.
Indeed, It was a film about salvation, wasn't it? Redemption? What was it about?
Posted by: This is Coffin at April 03, 2010 04:18 PM (00r+V)
Posted by: eman at April 03, 2010 04:19 PM (3fzoU)
Oh man, I so wouldn't have even made that connection. (But I'm not religious.) If that was deliberate, that's pretty snarky.
Kind of related, in one of my classes in high school we had to read Devil in a Blue Dress. The beginning of the book makes some sort of analogy with 40 pieces of silver and not a single person in my class knew what it meant, except for me. And I know some of those kids were religious types so I was surprised no one got it.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:20 PM (gofDd)
I bet Jen only has micro-orgasms.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2010 04:20 PM (KdA1d)
40 pieces of silver? Is that the right number?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:21 PM (c0A3e)
What, did Barry raise the cost of that too?
No, it was 40 pieces before Judas paid his fine for the Obamacare mandate.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 03, 2010 04:21 PM (P33XN)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:21 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2010 04:22 PM (S2ZGk)
Posted by: The Drizzle at April 03, 2010 04:22 PM (DZgJg)
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2010 08:14 PM (Mmw0q)
Wow. Dude, spacing is SO important.
Posted by: mpur in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:22 PM (tr6Dy)
I love gelt, but it's not something I expect to see in my Easter basket. And I thought it was Hanukkah?
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:23 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2010 08:14 PM (Mmw0q)
BUNK
Posted by: The guy that says BUNK at April 03, 2010 04:23 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2010 08:14 PM (Mmw0q)
newsletter?
Posted by: Unclefacts, Summoner of Meteors, Bacons, and Really Really Expensive Scotch at April 03, 2010 04:23 PM (erIg9)
Redemption. The novel tells the story of Jesus, & the movie does that too, though to a lesser extent. I would have to say the film is a bit more about action & heroics by Charlton Heston. But it's definitely a great film.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:26 PM (yfJ6g)
What, did Barry raise the cost of that too?
Posted by: eman at April 03, 2010 08:19 PM (3fzoU)
Inflation
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 03, 2010 04:27 PM (F09Uo)
sad? beyond pathetic. it is lost on no one that the media, supporters and Democrats are not just spreading propaganda but idiotic propaganda. They might have suckered more than just the empty headed trolls if they hadn't gone so completely over the top and spouting absurd nonsense. They don't even keep it in the realm of suspend your disbelief.
MSM: Pravda for Dummies -written by idiots, repeated by idiots and believed by idiots.
Posted by: molre than 2 brain cells here at April 03, 2010 04:28 PM (0cUgO)
Prognostication: Within six months, the Internet will be taxed by Obama, and the IRS will be the enforcing agent. Bastards.
Posted by: Fish at April 03, 2010 04:28 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: ParisParamus at April 03, 2010 04:28 PM (rgdra)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:30 PM (c0A3e)
14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
Matthew 26:14-15
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:30 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2010 04:30 PM (S2ZGk)
Posted by: Pravda at April 03, 2010 04:30 PM (0cUgO)
Posted by: Salem at April 03, 2010 04:31 PM (86rbG)
I'll take "People who have been watching the media closely since Ronald Reagan was elected" for $200, Alex.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2010 04:31 PM (eNxMU)
Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2010 04:31 PM (S2ZGk)
There's a column in the Orange County Register called "Ask a Mexican." He's guest hosted on radio shows from time to time, too.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:32 PM (gofDd)
One remarkable thing about leftards is their deep, almost Puritanical (in a perverted way) streak of anhedonia and hatred of pleasure. As if the only way for a leftard to have fun is to prevent others from having any.
And in a surprisingly satisfying way, I feel glad that those same people will eventually kill themselves off due to their dark embrace of abortion.
Posted by: ErikW at April 03, 2010 04:33 PM (g5ba2)
Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2010 04:33 PM (S2ZGk)
Actually, there was Win Ben Stein's Money. That was a great quiz show.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2010 04:34 PM (KdA1d)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:35 PM (Wh0W+)
Posted by: eman at April 03, 2010 04:36 PM (3fzoU)
I'm surprised they made a 4th season of The Tudors. It got tedious after season 2.
Did anyone see FROM PARIS WITH LOVE? I liked it.
Posted by: This is Judas' Agent at April 03, 2010 04:36 PM (00r+V)
Posted by: ParisParamus
at April 03, 2010 08:28 PM (rgdra)
I'm trying to make sure *you* eat healthy so *you* stop costing us so much money on health care.
I can eat whatever I want.
You far rightwingers just don't get it do you?
Posted by: Michelle Obama at April 03, 2010 04:36 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2010 08:34 PM (KdA1d)
Doesn't count. He's conservative.
Posted by: Self hating Jews at April 03, 2010 04:37 PM (YX6i/)
It'd better be good. RLM posted a twit-pic of the cover of AoTC covered in blood...
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:37 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Ktnxbai at April 03, 2010 04:38 PM (+76Io)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2010 08:34 PM (KdA1d)
That stupid creationist guy? Wait, he had like a gameshow? And he was like wicket smaht?
Uh, I need to go lay down.
Posted by: Some brilliant liberal at April 03, 2010 04:39 PM (bgcml)
/I've been around Hebrew-speakers, but they only spoke ancient/classical Hebrew.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:40 PM (yfJ6g)
Wait. She has a speaking role?
Posted by: mpur in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:41 PM (tr6Dy)
Actually, there was Win Ben Stein's Money. That was a great quiz show.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2010 08:34 PM (KdA1d)
My favorite was the Gong Show featuring Gene - Gene The Dancing Machine.
Posted by: Fish at April 03, 2010 04:42 PM (M5t+h)
Hopefully they'll stop after Henry dies. Unless they're really going to just start making things up.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 04:43 PM (gofDd)
Whoops, forgot to put NCIS. But, yes, she attempts to speak in Hebrew (at times) on the show.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:44 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:44 PM (c0A3e)
No one heard from you then, though. I figured you were camped out by either the store or the mailbox.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:45 PM (yfJ6g)
By the mailbox, since I pre-ordered it online. Ah..I remember that day I got the game like it was only yesterday...
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:47 PM (c0A3e)
Butler! OK Duke would rather beat MSU, a hometown underdog is hard to handle
First we have to beat the turncoat Yankee West Virginians.
We're going to confuse them. Give them tooth brushes before the game with their mother, er sister's name on them.
Course they won't know WTF a toothbrush is, but someone at halftime will tell them.
Go Duke!
Posted by: Kemp at April 03, 2010 04:47 PM (2+9Yx)
I dunno, I am intrigued by how Elizabeth, daughter of that devious whore Ann Boylen, got to be queen after Mary's short reign. What a strange turn of events.
Posted by: This is Judas' Agent at April 03, 2010 04:48 PM (00r+V)
I know, I was being a smart ass cuz I don't think she got the part because of her command of Hebrew.
She's from Chile originally, isn't she?
Posted by: mpur in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:48 PM (tr6Dy)
See Communications Corruption at the White House. An excerpt:
Some journalists seem to be putting their self interest above their responsibilities to the public as well as their employers.
As Howard Kurtz and Glenn Greenwald have both commented, many White House correspondents and other top tier journalists want to write Obama books.
[...]
But the kind of books that sell need "inside access" and this is something that the communications team at the White House doles out minimally, and increasingly, only when favors are part of the arrangement.
What I have learned after discussions over the last several days with several journalists who either have regular access to the White House or are part of the White House press corps is that there is a growing sense that access is traded for positive stories -- or perhaps worse, an agreement that things learned will not be reported in the near term.
The White House is working hard to secure deals that yield fluffy, feel good commentary about the Obama White House. One American White House reporter used colorful terms to describe the arrangement. The reporter said, "They want 'blow jobs' first [in the press sense]. Then you have to be on good behavior for a bit or be willing to deal, and then you get access."
"Axe" and "Gibbs" know who needs access to get their books pushed forward.
They know who will pay for play -- and are taking notes on who has been naughty and nice in their reporting.
We've seen the level of actual propaganda (via Breitbart and Beck) this White House is distributing. It has nothing on Chavez except that it isn't using troops to shut down opponents yet. It's doing everything short of that. Meanwhile, Jean Rosen et al. gladly follow along hoping they'll get their piece of silver and join the Marxist class should it take hold.
We live in interesting dangerous times. Enemies aren't at the gate; they're manning it. The moron horde is going to need to keep punching down to emphasize the game and smoke out the truth. Well done, Jack M.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 03, 2010 04:49 PM (swuwV)
No, it's where the resurrected Jesus rolls the stone away from his tomb, sees his shadow and we get six more weeks of Winter.
Posted by: Vile Roman at April 03, 2010 04:49 PM (iBzKc)
Posted by: pat at April 03, 2010 04:50 PM (vZL64)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 03, 2010 04:50 PM (KdA1d)
O/T - Consumer bankruptcy filings hit their highest monthly peak in March since Congress overhauled the system in 2005. The number of filings rose to 149,268, 34% higher than FebruaryÂ’s filings, according to data from the National Bankruptcy Research Center. The March tally was also 23% higher than the same time a year ago.
Don't believe everything you read from the extreme right wing because as your president, all the numbers are positive and recovery is just around the corner.
Barack Obama, President for Life
Posted by: Fish at April 03, 2010 04:51 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:52 PM (c0A3e)
"I got a Hebrew teacher and didn't rest or sleep for 48 hours," recalled the tall, slim, dark-haired actress. "I wanted to do the language justice. I want to apologize to all Israelis if I didn't succeed, but boy, did I try."
Sometimes she will switch over the Spanish, & you notice how much more comfortable she is with it. I love it when she sings in Spanish, too. She's a great singer.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 04:54 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 04:55 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 08:30 PM (gofDd)
Sorry I'm late. I was busy paying off the Romans.
Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2010 04:56 PM (wU8a6)
I just like the whole package. Beautiful, smart, kicks ass. What's not to love?
Posted by: mpur in Texas at April 03, 2010 04:57 PM (tr6Dy)
Sorry I'm late. I was busy paying off the Romans.
Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2010 08:56 PM (wU8a6)
Thanks for keeping your end of the bargain. Now I have a savior. Props!
Posted by: Editor at April 03, 2010 04:58 PM (YX6i/)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:01 PM (c0A3e)
So if you have a buddy you think of as a brother
And you bang that same buddy's sister
Is that outcest?
Just Askin'
Posted by: Beto at April 03, 2010 05:02 PM (H+LJc)
He's not fat in all of season 3. That really annoyed me but I guess they can't put Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in a fat suit.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:02 PM (gofDd)
is this you, Kratos?
Hey wait, how will we know? I mean are we just soposed to sit here refreshing the page like every five min or something?
Posted by: This is Judas' Agent at April 03, 2010 05:03 PM (00r+V)
That joke, every Easter. Always makes me drag out the "Jesus was a Jew, lest we forget" line./It has nothing to do with you, just an irritation due to a few anti-Semites I know.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:03 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Red Letter Media at April 03, 2010 05:03 PM (YX6i/)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:04 PM (c0A3e)
I love the Jews for Jesus movement. They crack me up. Our local Jewish morning drive talk show guy said, "We have a name for the Jews for Jesus people. They're called Christians."
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:05 PM (gofDd)
Good thing you've never read the CBS: NCIS message boards. You see, there's a big argument about whether she's a traitor to the US....
/Yeah, I know, it was rhetorical. But some people really hate her guts, I don't know why.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:06 PM (yfJ6g)
I found a solution to that problem.
Posted by: Henry VIII at April 03, 2010 05:07 PM (KdA1d)
Posted by: eman at April 03, 2010 05:07 PM (3fzoU)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:08 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: sandbagger at April 03, 2010 05:08 PM (IOKTj)
Posted by: Glenn Beck at April 03, 2010 05:08 PM (YX6i/)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:08 PM (yfJ6g)
What?!?!? No!!! eleventy!!!!
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:09 PM (c0A3e)
/I've been around Hebrew-speakers, but they only spoke ancient/classical Hebrew.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 08:40 PM (yfJ6g)
No one "speaks" classical Hebrew. It is strictly liturgical and there is no difference in pronunciation since the switch over in the late 60's in America to the Sepahrdic prounciation a la Israeli Hebrew.
de Pablo's accent? So-so. A lot of Argentinians live in Israel, and there is a decent-sized Chilean Jewish population down there as well. The are entire communities of Mexican and South American Jews in Israel.
So she could be an emigrant from Latin America.
Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2010 05:09 PM (wU8a6)
Posted by: bergerbilder at April 03, 2010 05:11 PM (S1Ttj)
I hate the anti-candy freaks. They spoil everything. Jill Rosen's kids are going to be begging their next door neighbors for candy and every chance they get they'll mainline sugar, all because of her. I saw this when I was a kid with my friends whose parents didn't let them have candy, and I see it now with the kids in my son's class.
Jill Rosen--you are creating monsters, I hope you feel good about your damn Kashi and sidewalk chalk.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 03, 2010 05:11 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:12 PM (c0A3e)
I knew those kids growing up, too. And their parents were always so self-righteous about it. "Well, MY child doesn't eat anything unhealthy." Sure, lady. That's why he traded me an apple for my chocolate bar, right?
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:13 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 09:12 PM (c0A3e)
Big shit. I have the Rifftrax.
Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2010 05:13 PM (wU8a6)
No one "speaks" classical Hebrew. It is strictly liturgical and there is no difference in pronunciation since the switch over in the late 60's in America to the Sepahrdic prounciation a la Israeli Hebrew.
Oh? Well, they are all Bible scholars & pastors. I admit, it's all over-my-head.
de Pablo's accent? So-so. A lot of Argentinians live in Israel, and there is a decent-sized Chilean Jewish population down there as well. The are entire communities of Mexican and South American Jews in Israel.
So she could be an emigrant from Latin America.
She's from Chile. They coached her for hours. I think they hire ethnic Israelis for the other parts, though.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:14 PM (yfJ6g)
wherestherum at April 03, 2010 09:13 PM (gofDd)
I WAS one of those kids. Daddy was/is a health nut. Tried to make us eat wheat germ on our breakfast cereals. Take your vitamins, including those ones that smell like shit and are the size of golf balls. For years, I didn't know what white bread tasted like. I was the only kid in elementary school with a wheat bread sandwich.
Needless to say, my eating habits today are atrocious.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 03, 2010 05:16 PM (P33XN)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:18 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Cicero at April 03, 2010 05:19 PM (KrRnU)
My mother was like that, bragging to my aunt about she never let us have sweet snacks, monitored our portions, etc. We're all fat as adults (except my anorexic sister), my cousins who got to eat whatever they wanted--including bucketloads of cookies and candy--are normal. Admittedly, my mother was pretty eating disordered--repeated Weight Watchers cultist, would buy Oreos in town and finish the bag off on the way home, hiding sweets in closets, etc.
This is why I look forward to Sasha and Malia's memoirs in about 25 years, after their gastric bypasses and years of therapy. Michelle Obama's creepy need to control other people's food intake while not controlling her own, and publicly shaming her children for being "fat" seem really familiar.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 03, 2010 05:23 PM (RwvOw)
I'm so sorry. My aunt is a health nut and doesn't believe in microwaves because of the radiation. When I was a kid she stayed with us for a month when my mom was laid up with appendicitis. Needless to say, it was a month of health food hell.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:24 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:26 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 09:18 PM (yfJ6g)
UT/Austin has had, since Abe Zilkha came in the early 70's, an excellent Hebrew department. You can take a decent series of Biblical Hebrew courses via the University of Wisconsin extension department.
I'm playing around with learning some Classical Greek right now. I took Russian at college, so there are some similarities. I bought the "Athenaze" course books. I'm going through the Cambridge course boioks on Latin right now, when I have some down time.
I just wish that I took all that in High School, but they stopped teaching the classics back in those days.
Posted by: TexasJew at April 03, 2010 05:26 PM (wU8a6)
Posted by: SlaveDog at April 03, 2010 05:28 PM (W+E+o)
Why does it taste so bad when it's supposed to be good for you?
One of my favorite healthy cereals is this one: http://tinyurl.com/5nj2z7. It's actually pretty good and doesn't taste like cardboard.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:29 PM (gofDd)
Your aunt is Dennis Kucinich?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 03, 2010 05:29 PM (Gk/wA)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 03, 2010 05:30 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:30 PM (c0A3e)
Heh, well, she votes R so she has that going for her. She's actually very, very conservative and very, very religious. She also doesn't believe in vaccines to which my cousin (her daughter) snarkily said, "My mom doesn't believe in science."
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:32 PM (gofDd)
My alma mater is a Christian college & we have a pretty good Biblical Studies Dept. [It's no longer great now that the archaeologists & Old Testament scholars are no longer there, but it's good.] I also went to a classical Christian high school, & 2 of my teachers went to Westminster Seminary & were taught by the theologian Dr. Cornelius van Til.
My pastor was 1 of the 2 teachers, & he taught me Greek. Brutal. The Greeks manage to jam a textbook-full of meaning into a word just by changing the tense.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:33 PM (yfJ6g)
I'm required to eat all that health-food stuff. It's annoying. Can't they make it taste like anything?
Two words, lemon and garlic. That's your new salt and pepper.
If anybody bitches, tell them that it's not your fault that cancer has made them hypersensitive.
Posted by: ErikW at April 03, 2010 05:33 PM (pL71T)
Except for the ones the First lady wears. Her boob belts look like the saddle girth they took off of My Friend Flicka after she was rode hard and put away wet.
Posted by: I have a Boob Belt fetish at April 03, 2010 05:33 PM (iQIaw)
wherestherum at April 03, 2010 09:24 PM (gofDd)
He uses the microwave, thank god, but he decided a week or so ago that he can't use cooking spray anymore because of hexine. This after thirty or forty years using it. Whatever.
We used to make cracks all the time about his food tasting like cardboard. He'd get mad. Fortunately, my mother didn't buy into any of that crap. We were still stuck with some of the stuff (like the wheat bread), but it could've been a whole helluva lot worse. Like "starting your day with a heaping spoonful of cod liver oil" worse.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 03, 2010 05:34 PM (P33XN)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:36 PM (yfJ6g)
Butter tastes better anyway.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 03, 2010 05:36 PM (RwvOw)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:36 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: newser at April 03, 2010 05:38 PM (X2eW0)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:39 PM (yfJ6g)
223
When I was a kid I hung around the Sinclair gas station doing odd jobs for soda and chips
Tractor wheels were a common repair then
One Saturday I had earned a soda and was biking home when a tractor tire being filled exploded
It killed everybody in the garage
I survive because I left six seconds before
Posted by: Beto at April 03, 2010 05:39 PM (H+LJc)
Heh. My aunt was asking my mom about non-stick cookware because she heard it could be toxic. I don't know if she stopped using it or not; I didn't take a close look at her cookware last time I saw her.
My aunt is horribly skinny and not the good kind. I think it's her diet. I remember she made a carob cake when she was down here. Ugh, it was nasty. Granted, she and her son are allergic to chocolate (the horror, right?) so I understand why they substitute with carob. She will eat meat, at least, and we had prime rib for Thanksgiving instead of turkey. I think she just makes sure everything is organic. I'm pretty sure she only shops at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:39 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: SlaveDog at April 03, 2010 05:40 PM (W+E+o)
/
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:41 PM (yfJ6g)
Well, I thought my vengeance was over, yet I still have this desire to use the Blade of Olympus on a lot of living things.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at April 03, 2010 05:42 PM (c0A3e)
Amy's is really good, too. They make those frozen meals in a variety of cultural cuisines. I like the tamales and enchiladas. There's also a southern version with collard greens and sweet potatoes. It's all vegetarian and pretty darn tasty.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:42 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: emaugust at April 03, 2010 05:43 PM (E8wmM)
I'm pretty sure she only shops at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
My father is too cheap to shop at Whole Foods.
Me going to Whole Foods is like the scene in The Omen when Damien's parents try to take him to church. If we got as far as the parking lot, someone near me is losing an eye.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 03, 2010 05:43 PM (P33XN)
Can Michelle be FLOTUS and Supreme Court Justice at the same time?
Posted by: SlaveDog at April 03, 2010 05:44 PM (W+E+o)
OK, we'll pretend that you have known the touch of a woman.
Posted by: notropis at April 03, 2010 05:45 PM (lU9vr)
Soap bubbles? How do you package those things?
Anyway, I hope this Kitchen character included SPF 153 sunscreen for her kids, otherwise child services will have to drag her batshit crazy ass away for forcing her children to burn to death in the sun ... and using sidewalk chalk on sidewalks is illegal in many areas.
So, once the kids are picked up for graffiti and the mother is hauled away for tricking her kids to go out into the dangerous, nasty sun, this happy family with the pathetic gifts will all be spending time in separate jails. What a shame ... yeah ...
But then Rosen can write a whole series of articles about the dangers of holiday gift-giving (even for the best intentioned of leftards) and why such capitalist traditions should be stricken from our society, under penalty of law.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at April 03, 2010 05:46 PM (N49h9)
Next year they get condoms too
Posted by: Beto at April 03, 2010 05:47 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 03, 2010 05:48 PM (yfJ6g)
Can Michelle be FLOTUS and Supreme Court Justice at the same time?
We're checking with our distributors on the availability of heavy black canvas.
Posted by: Virginia Tent and Awning at April 03, 2010 05:49 PM (pL71T)
I like Whole Foods. Their produce is pretty good, but everything is so damned expensive. I use my own bag just so I can get the 5 cent bag refund.
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 05:49 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: robtr at April 03, 2010 05:54 PM (fwSHf)
"When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them." - Chesterton
Posted by: Noel at April 03, 2010 06:21 PM (Hh13R)
more parents have apparently decided to pass on the sweets and start new, sugar-free Easter traditions.
The kids of the temporary census workers (the oil that keeps the machinery of America going don'tchaknow) baskets will be brimming with treats.
Posted by: RWC at April 03, 2010 06:28 PM (mPZZT)
Oh, and we are going to celebrate the Risen Lord with Joy!
( and lots and lots of jelly beans )
Posted by: An American Auntie at April 03, 2010 07:02 PM (Glxw+)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at April 03, 2010 07:19 PM (N49h9)
Posted by: 16 year old virgin at April 03, 2010 07:51 PM (mg/vv)
259: celebrate the risen Lord with jelly beans? Really? Really?
we are certainly doomed .....
Posted by: glennbeckishot at April 03, 2010 08:04 PM (r4AFz)
Posted by: Jack M. at April 03, 2010 08:42 PM (Ncr1R)
Posted by: Robert at April 04, 2010 02:23 AM (4vhx9)
It seems to me that the Tea Party people are allowing themselves to be suckered by the MSM.
With the OJ Simpson jury and again with this healthcare legislation and with other issues, too, it seems to me that it is/was all about black people sticking it to whitey; i.e., specifically, WASPs.
But they're slyly turning it around and deceitfully projecting their own malevolence onto whitey; i.e., specifically, Tea Party people, accusing Tea Party people of being the racists, when, in fact, black people are the racists, who are again trying to stick it to whitey. Do you get my drift?
By not allowing criticism of black people on this website, Ace is playing right into the hands of blacks, again enabling them to stick it to whitey with impunity.
Oh well, it's Easter. So we're not going to sweat this petty stufff today. A proper perspective is that jelly beans and chocolate Easter Bunnies somehow seem more important today.
Happy Easter.
Posted by: Brian & Dianne at April 04, 2010 05:12 AM (ITzbJ)
What passes for journalism today, just making up stuff.
Happy Easter everyone. Rejoice, He has risen.
Posted by: czekmark at April 04, 2010 05:47 AM (WqdjW)
If you live in Delaware, you can't buy candy anywhere without giving your money to a Hindu clerk.
Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at April 04, 2010 07:16 AM (mHQ7T)
Anyway, I also sent some workbooks with stickers and some foil stars. My sister is a horrible speller, and my mother is a bad grandmother. I always had a feeling the twins would have trouble learning to read in public school. It was my hope that my sister would sit down with her children and help them learn to read and spell; maybe she would get it right herself the second time.
She just let them run around the house putting gold stars on everything. It really bothered me, and I tried to be really tactful as I said, "That's why you're fat and illiterate. The stars are rewards for when the children learn something or work hard. You don't get stars for nothing, and you don't let the kids run all over the house with them. Exercise some responsibility and sit down with your children and give them the love and attention you never got growing up." And it's true. My sister's eating disorder was her sad cry for attention. Nobody paid her any mind, and she moved out at seventeen.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 07:30 AM (mHQ7T)
I never liked Grimaldi's much. It's the kind of place Obama supporters love, though. "Authentic" but really just made to look that way.
The original Patsy's is still open on 116th Street, and it's the best pizza in the city. The Grimaldi nephew is just burned that he didn't get anything from the franchise getting bought, and he can't even use the name. It's a different oven, a different recipe, and I would go so far as to say Lombardi's is better pizza.
roadfood DOT com /Restaurant/Reviews/2333/patsys-pizzeria
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 07:45 AM (mHQ7T)
That's Grape Nuts, and I love that shit. Kashi is like Sugar Smacks without the sugar, so just smack, I guess.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 07:47 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 07:51 AM (mHQ7T)
JackM already punched you down, you racist. Right here...
Now, I know what some of you are thinking. Who is Jill Rosen? And why are you punching down by deigning to cover some fluff piece in the Baltimore Sun? I mean is an article entitled "Parents Cutting Down on Easter Candy" really worth a blog post?
And I answer: Shut. Up.
No...I really answer: "Yes, it is." Because even though this is a nothing-burger of an article written by someone who is probably a recent graduate of journalism school and trying hard to be promoted to writing classified ads, it is revealing of many of the institutional biases that exist within the dominant media culture.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 07:59 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 08:06 AM (mHQ7T)
I ain't going to blame the fine people at M&M/Mars, Hershey, or Cadbury for my health.... now where did that egg laying rabbit go to... here bunny, bunny, bunny...
Posted by: Pat J. at April 04, 2010 08:15 AM (lm/q+)
Posted by: wherestherum at April 03, 2010 09:49 PM (gofDd)
As a company, I like Whole Foods a lot and have an undying loyalty that was forged by my roommate who moved from Denver when they opened a store here to work as the dairy manager. His boss was named Wendy, but she had a lesbian nickname tattooed to her knuckles. I forget what it was. But she teased the guys about staring at the lady shoppers' puckered nipples when they came through the cooler section. "Would you hit that? I'd have that bitch paying my rent." But I learned about the other perks of working at Whole Foods, as well.
It's just so inconvenient having to wait in line FOREVER just to get a few items. But I do my holiday shopping there. Except this year, I bought a bunch of stuff at the farmer's market already. I'm having huevos rancheros for brunch and orecchiette with brocolli rabe and sausage for dinner later.
Happy Easter, morons!
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 04, 2010 08:25 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Brian & Dianne at April 04, 2010 10:52 AM (ITzbJ)
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Posted by: TerryGhee at April 04, 2010 03:01 PM (cWFdY)
ummpf looks like shit,
hpmmf smells like shit,
urgh tastes like shit,....
must be shit.
Posted by: rumcrook™ at April 04, 2010 07:26 PM (60WiD)
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