Gullible Americans

always thought you had to drink the bottled water in Eutopia. Then again, my consort and I got very sick in a chateau in the Loire after drinking the tap stuff no one else did. 

I'll still eat the stuff

but finally with a guilt smidge -- never worried about the ducks. 

Hard to argue

until you wonder why diet sodas will be exempt. They ain't exactly health drinks. 

One obit

Biff Grimes should have written. This is pretty effen lame.

Speaking of copy editors

Count the screw-ups, starting with the villains in the piece ending up with a company. Jeebus White. 

Sorta fud

if you think potatoes. Nicely done. 

Why they fear kebabs

They might have competition for their finest restaurants:

". . . The sautéed veal with asparagus was at least as good as any I've had in New Jersey, but the breaded and deep-fried lamb chops were teamed with breaded and deep-fried artichokes. All we needed was pommes frites and a cardiologist." 

(I was so much older then.)  

Funny to think

of people freaking over peanut butter and happily eating cheap bacon. 

Despite where this ran

on the page that reeks of old Kristol lies and fresh Dowd inanity, this seems persuasive. I never worry about eggs from Knoll Krest or pork from Flying Pigs, for good reason. 

I wonder if this could have been avoided

with tax cuts and a more business-friendly environment? 

Allah forbid

anyone has to confront how the vitello meets the tonnato.

It's a jungle

in the grocery store.

Or not. 

A better idea

than restricting salt. (Last graf seems dropped in from another story, though.) 

I wish

this was better-written, but it needs to be said.

Mr. Updike

goes to Lutece.

Also not fud, just LOL

And right on, considering how many of us never saw the protests at the 2001 inauguration in our hometown paper. 

Sometimes you have to die

for people to realize you're alive. (Too bad the copy editor pierre'd out in the penultimate graf.) 

So who on the Sulzberger masthead

is a regular at Le Cirque? The coverage has been slobbering. 

I wondered if I was the only one

wondering if a reporter had not dipped into the eggnog before overwriting. 

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.