12/31/08
12/30/08
Not fud, just yes
But there is still no denying the similarities. One useful idiot just had a more practiced handler.
12/29/08
Yes, I'm a bitch
But I have to say I can like someone without condoning behavior. That's what editors are for.
12/27/08
12/26/08
12/23/08
I wondered if I was the only one
wondering if a reporter had not dipped into the eggnog before overwriting.
Not fud, just worth remembering
I still recall our Brazilian friend hysterically packing up to move back home during this frenzy. Nothing since 9/11, my ass.
Not fud, just infuriating
And he had the unmitigated gall to tack an MRI onto his "sympathy" tour. Can Jan. 21 come fast enough?
HFS
Bad enough the errors were on what looked to be a blog post. In print? I guess all the layoffs were not just on the letters page.
12/22/08
12/20/08
Christmas makes people
fucking crazy. This is actually a pretty good story, but what a waste -- all that effort for no good cause. And 11 pounds of butter for 500 dozen cookies? Talk about loaves and fishes. . .
12/19/08
12/18/08
Go, internets
For some reason this post -- and the comments it elicited -- gives me absurd hope that the stories behind the promotions will finally be told. Eat your almonds, they said, and next thing you know we have a Torturer in Chief.
12/13/08
12/12/08
Not fud, just good
And the steaming pile in the middle of the definition of sociopath is the guy running around polishing his legacy while trashing the country and getting trashed in torture reports.
12/11/08
Spoiler
for anyone who hasn't seen "Slumdog Millionaire;" otherwise, a trip to Mumbai without the sensory overload.
12/10/08
Not fud, but excellent
Socialist in chief (and it is telling that everyone takes Medicare and it's a fight with Blue Cross).
Once upon a time
saying this would have gotten a writer covered in simian feces. Today it's just accepted as fact.
Not fud, but telling
The one advantage formerly arboreal media apparently has, and the NYT decides to tuck Sports into another section so you can't throw the damn thing out.
12/9/08
My suspicions
about the Archway/Mother's cookie debacle might not be so wacky. Big business is taking advantage of the "everybody's doing it" offense.
12/8/08
I was joking
about his sobriety, but this would be fascinating if the answer weren't obvious: Non-Republicans are always held to different standards. We never got to see who blew his dad, but today everyone's having a good laugh at Monica. Pisco sours all around.
12/6/08
Not fud, but almost revolutionary
Imagine adding a reporter with expertise on another beat to a dull political story. You actually get expertise and context.
Not fud, but thank allah
someone said it, and incredibly well. Everyone's dancing around as if she only got the aftermath wrong. The sumbitch was eating pretzels at the switch.
12/5/08
Drink up.
It's good for someone. Attaturk's motto "in like douchebags, out like colostomy bags" gets truer every day.
12/4/08
Calling Martin Parr
See more Adam "Ghost Panther" McKay videos at Funny or Die
(Filched from the unlikeliest snark trove)
Funny how wrong
resonates more than right. I would never have heard of these if they'd been tasteful.
Is it any easier
if it's food insecurity rather than the H word? (Saw this in the Journal of "lucky duckies," not the NYT.)
Not fud, but excellent
I was wondering how you can "create" a legacy in the last dirty days of the most incompetent reign ever. I was looking for the wrong hero in the piece.
12/3/08
Good take
on a thoroughly recycled story by a guy who has clearly not bought movie popcorn since FDR was on the teevee.
Craven
but it has its moments, including the photo. This kind of comment-seeking, though, is like a Roach Motel.
12/2/08
Recycle the red covers
'cuz they're worthless. Admittedly, I have not been to Hong Kong since it was on the verge of being handed over, but if this is really the one three-star on offer let's all head to Flushing.
12/1/08
Not fud, but good
Almost takes away the bad taste from the interview that nearly ruined Thanksgiving.
11/29/08
Now they tell me
But we would have had no vodka to serve if I'd known this. Wonder if aguardiente would work?
11/28/08
11/27/08
11/26/08
11/25/08
11/24/08
Not fud, just essential
reading, especially for everyone quaking at the idea of having to wait a week to see a specialist.
11/22/08
11/21/08
One big reason
not to fly in Canada. Maybe they should allow smokers to use the lavatories again because they are "disabled" by their nicotine addiction.
11/19/08
11/18/08
11/17/08
11/15/08
11/13/08
Is there anything sadder
than a fake Thanksgiving turkey? Especially one that sounds like a sex toy, with a cavity for stuffing?
Not fud, but good
Has Biden been spirited away to the underground bunker already? Or is moose chili media bait?
11/12/08
Get out your duct tape
The Thanksgiving hysteria on the internets is truly astonishing this year. It's only a turkey dinner, for yams' sake. Yet every online (and formerly arboreal) outlet is treating it like Y2K all over again. I hate writing about it, but I love doing it because it is totally the easiest meal of the year. Heed what you read elsewhere at your own risk.
11/10/08
11/8/08
11/7/08
Reflections
on the food pyramid, which, in the wake of my squandering three days studying it, is more mystifying than ever.
11/6/08
California
has its priorities straight, so to speak. I guess the Mormons weren't threatened by chicken abuse.
11/1/08
The view from the top
But I disagree about meat. People will give up orange juice first because over-subsidized flesh is just too cheap.
Race to the bottom
when McDonald's becomes the role model for presidential elections. . .
(And having been pilloried my whole life for my first and last names, I know it's not nice to make fun of others', but doesn't Eagleburger sound like something the Caribou Killer would eat? No wonder he did a skinback.)
(And having been pilloried my whole life for my first and last names, I know it's not nice to make fun of others', but doesn't Eagleburger sound like something the Caribou Killer would eat? No wonder he did a skinback.)
10/31/08
10/30/08
10/29/08
An ebbing tide
does no one any good. My consort and I quite liked this place. And it would have gotten an IWHGB if it had been more geographically convenient.
(Gleaned from the obsessed)
(Gleaned from the obsessed)
10/28/08
10/25/08
10/24/08
10/23/08
10/22/08
Tuscan candidates
Brunello: "When young, unstable; when older, unreliable." Sounds like the guy everyone wanted to have a beer with eight years ago.
Be afraid
These are considered improvements on the deep-fried Twinkie. Alligators die for state fair fare?
I always wonder
if I were on the hate train if he were American, but he seems to be fighting the good fight.
The power of positive eating
May be flawed, but it's a start -- "fizzy diet drinks" score higher than hot dogs.
10/21/08
More on Wasilla beer
Sullivan is right about who else is being outed in this election. And I can trace the beginning of the end to the Reagan years, when an editor at the NYT came charging over to the copy desk after seeing a story on feeding the homeless in DC: "We can't run this! It makes Washington sound like Calcutta."
Goodbye, truth. Hello, Chimp and worse. Karma's a bitch.
10/20/08
Not fud, just scary
Come to think of it, though, maybe it's more Republican election fraud: This would give pregnant women two votes.
10/19/08
10/18/08
Torino, discovered again
But the kicker has to be the most horseshit ever tacked onto a story. How in the world would a writer know what older people were going home to dream about in a city where she can't pronounce the pasta names? (Also like the reference to panini sandwiches. Sorta like frutta fruit. Copy editors need to get out more.)
10/17/08
I thought this
was a parody. A day's worth of calories in one little gulp?
(Filched from Wonkette, which had the legit link, too)
10/16/08
I wonder if the guy
who takes a motorcade to the Starbucks in Sedona is aware of this. Only arugula is elitist, though.
Just back from the grocery store
where the only sale posters anymore advertise beef and other meat, and I found this excellent take.
10/15/08
Why do I suspect
Holy Foods might not be opening near me after all? This is a sign of serious hurtin'. And also proof that clipping coupons is not what the budget-conscious are doing these days. Sacrifice that ink.
10/14/08
10/13/08
Throw enough money at a food
and it will get healthier and healthier and healthier. (Yeah, I know it should be "more healthful," but that doesn't read.)
Dissing Ferran Adria
I'm not alone in my amazement at the stunt Sunday Sillies allowed. Forget the post. Go straight to the comments.
Talk about missing the point
Finally, a story comes close to revealing why all street fairs are alike. But rather than talking about the unnamed "three production companies," it natters on about whether or not people like the damn things. Maybe they should have killed Metro rather than simply burying it.
Another day
another nutrition report that omits a crucial detail: Who paid for the study advocating Vitamin D supplements?
10/11/08
Not fud, but scathing
He is a prick. And playing with fire.
Juan Cole also weighs in as everyone should have: What's wrong with being an Arab?
And Atrios noticed this great question.
10/10/08
I think she's found a cure
And not a chemical, geographical cure, let alone sugar or shopping, drinking or dropping.
(Filched from Altercation, where Fridays are the best days)
Let's hope
the citizenry can afford pumpkins in a few weeks. They weren't cheap at the farmers' market this a.m.
The end of roadside eating
as we know it? What amazed me in researching a story this week was how expensive these mass-market restaurants are. Fifteen dollars for an effen chicken Caesar?
For real perspective, though, click through the slide show. Yikes.
10/9/08
Not fud, but scary
How do they cram the genie back in the bottle once they've lost and go back to their multiple homes? Pow's sugar mama can always steal drugs to get her through the night. What the hell are we supposed to do? My friend's casita in Uruguay is going to be as crowded as the A train. . . .
Blame the Simpsons
for lulling us into thinking the eavesdroppers on our payroll were only picking up pizza orders in their snooping. At least in "The Lives of Others" they didn't laugh.
Not fud, but LOL
Is it my imagination
or is the white daughter eating for two? Mom must be so hungry she's turning uglier.
Not fud, but worthy
Just unfortunate that this did not have to happen. One little man has destroyed so many lives.
10/8/08
When tamales collide
Who knew New Orleans was a hotbed of what I grew up eating in Arizona? Be interesting to see how the real deal evolves there with immigration.
(Gleaned through links starting with Marco on a photographer who put his life to amazing use)
I'm not going to link
to the travesty, but I will say: Johnny Rotten he is not.
This loser who sold us the Chimp eight years ago this time should be in stocks in the American town square, pelted with rotten tomatoes if not simian feces, not given front-page space to babble. Too bad he can't be shipped back to Texas, too. Some of us are neither forgetting nor forgiving.
10/7/08
Better late than never
And I definitely gotta start reading faster so I can put this info to use when I meet key characters at parties, even if they can't hear me or vice versa.
And to think food coverage gets dissed
Editors at least decide whether a hot dog-eating contest is a story. Or fajitas 20 years after the fact.
10/6/08
10/4/08
10/3/08
Maybe I need to move to America
The prices are much lower out there on Main Street. I'd be happy to pay only 10 percent more when even crappy Kraft Cheddar is 10 bucks a pound now.
10/2/08
Beware
the series of tubes: This is jaw-dropping stupid. (Love the typos, too: litter cheaper, buger restaurant.)
My outrage meter is broken
but this is still pretty amazing: The FDA tries to clean up its image rather than the food supply. And all roads lead to Alaska.
10/1/08
9/30/08
Either it changed, or I did
because this place was pretty bad last time I went. Still sad to see it go; where else did the bartenders always greet me every few years as if I came in every night? (Note to the misty-eyed, though: In the mid-80s Columbus was anything but "a rough stretch." Can you say Silver Palate? We fled north in '86 because it was too trendy to navigate anymore.)
(Filched from Eater)
9/29/08
I thought this shot
of Newman's Own's founder looked familiar. For some reason it's missing the Bob Sacha credit/Life magazine September 1988.
9/28/08
9/27/08
And where was the fraud?
Hanging out in a bar in Philadelphia? Are they serious? And I love how they are not voters but "fans."
9/26/08
9/25/08
Not fud, just gag-worthy
Personally, I've had about enough of "leaders" who laugh at their subjects.
9/24/08
9/23/08
9/22/08
Eat a big breakfast
I hope I can do this next month but wonder . . . Last time I recruited I was a sophomore in college and did it for the money only, in between covering anti-war demonstrations in the streets for my college paper.
9/21/08
Not fud, but sobering
The merde touch spreads.
But it's not totally hopeless.
And Jeebus, where has this woman been hiding her fire while the fur-clad fraud has been hogging the limelight? (Filched from Driftglass.)
9/20/08
Not fud, just disturbing
We the people may be getting sunk into debt up to the next generation's eyeballs. But Per Se will always be booked.
Long but chilling, with this kicker:
"What I do know is that an injustice so grave and extreme that it defies words is taking place; that the greatest beneficiaries are those who are most culpable; and that the same hopelessly broken and deeply rotted institutions and elite class that gave rise to all of this (and so much more) are the very ones that are -- yet again -- being blindly entrusted to solve this."
Long but chilling, with this kicker:
"What I do know is that an injustice so grave and extreme that it defies words is taking place; that the greatest beneficiaries are those who are most culpable; and that the same hopelessly broken and deeply rotted institutions and elite class that gave rise to all of this (and so much more) are the very ones that are -- yet again -- being blindly entrusted to solve this."
Not fud, but damning
He does whatever his captors want.
Update from Anonymous Liberal by way of Steve Benen:
"Then again, if we bring the same approach to health care that we brought to the banking industry, maybe in eight years or so, our health care system will completely collapse and the government will have to step in and take over. Voila! A national health care system. Brilliant."
9/18/08
Not fud, but I'm starting to envision
Ronee Blakley. . . (In character, of course. And with McSame getting escorted off instead.)
Not fud, aside from the bananas in the republic
At least we already know what it's like to live with a Third World health care system.
9/17/08
Not fud, just scary
Maybe we should be talking about how being without a kitchen table for 5 1/2 years sorta robs you of your integrity. Most dishonest campaign ever.
9/16/08
9/15/08
9/12/08
9/11/08
9/10/08
Not fud, but amazing
that newspapers think ethics are all about forbidding spouses from putting bumper stickers on reporters' cars. We're doomed, I say.
9/9/08
Better late
than never. Just found this and am more convinced than ever that she is not a pit bull in lipstick but a Go-Fuck-Yourself in drag. That said, the bigger threat is the the crazy creep who found her on vpilf.com.
This explains
who makes ads for McBush: Zombies who will sell anything for a salary. (Call them Lysol-loaded douche bags.)
9/8/08
Not fud, but important
This is why we are mired in so many messes. The always-wrong right rules the airwaves.
9/6/08
Talk about
locavorism.
(Come for the food. Stay for the ephelant. If this is what they're doing in college, no wonder old pharts are getting canned right and left.)
(Come for the food. Stay for the ephelant. If this is what they're doing in college, no wonder old pharts are getting canned right and left.)
What's astonishing
is that the bar is set so low, and the shitstorm still erupts from meat producers.
All that eating in Italy
didn't do Panchito much good.
"There are a few exceptions to the decline of Chinese food in U.S. urban centers. . . . We read recently about a reputedly excellent new place in the city's Garment District, but on closer inspection, Szechuan Gourmet turned out to be a sloppy, indifferent rendition of the great, hearty food of the earthquake-plaged province . . . The ma po dou fu at Sezchuan Gourmet was muddy in flavor, beef-starved, with barely a shred of green."
9/5/08
The decline and fall
of the American dream in a nutshell. Being the meat in the sandwich generation might have an upside.
9/4/08
Not fud, just enlightening
As the Brits see it. Why do the Goddites not believe in one nation under?
9/3/08
9/2/08
One that got away
Good piece on Indians going back to their native diet for health reasons. But I wonder what they used for vegetable oil thousands of years ago.
9/1/08
8/31/08
8/30/08
Considering they think
women have "the collective IQ of a Tampax," it's amazing they didn't choose a box of chocolates.
(Gleaned from the Boy Wonder)
Not fud, but good
Of course, I'm prejudiced because my consort was involved. Even so, if I had any money I'd be investing it in Kleenex.
8/29/08
Not fud, but funny
And why am I convinced he picked someone from Alaska to counter the Hawaii cachet? You know you're old when you remember when America had only 48 states.
While my friends and I
were eating great orzo salad and sausage and smoked salmon sandwiches and eggs in garlic sauce . . .
8/28/08
8/27/08
Not fud, but insightful
I got a sense of this from reading the blogs all week, not from watching the teevee on my small screen, but once again, I suspect the "pros" are missing a story. A big story while NYC Friedman whimpers about getting left in Beijing's dust.
Not fud, but pretty amazing
Isn't this the party supposedly appalled by the breakdown of civilized civilization?
Not fud, but amazing
The old guy gets away with stuff that would have sunk any Democrat. And to think he could avoid all of it just by learning to use the series of tubes like other septuagenarians.
You can't go back
to first grade again. Funny, though, I also once worked with a couple of people who voluntarily ate pink Sno-Balls every day. The kind from the vending machine, not the urban dictionary.
8/26/08
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