This is genius. I really can't stop laughing.
Food
Elon James White gets his bougie on with "We Brunch Hard"
Los Angeles Eats, Sites and Events, 2009 Edition
My family just got back from our annual vacation in Los Angeles where I have both family and friends...and every other year (including 2009) a conference at UCLA.
This year traveling was marginally better because we flew into Burbank airport, which is considerably better than LAX. And flying Jet Blue meant there were no stopovers. In general I have not found Jet Blue's prices competitive, but this year they were, so we tried them out.
This time we rented a Nissan Altima hybrid. It got us about 32 mpg in the city...not as good as we once got in a Prius, but a tad better than we once got in a Honda Civic hybrid. My wife liked to drive both the Prius and the Altima...but not so much the Civic in comparison.
As usual, one of the best things for me was hanging out at UCLA, a place I have hung out around since I was a young boy when my mother had an office in Bunche Hall (which we always called "The Waffle"). Bunche Hall and the sculpture garden are part of my childhood memories. South campus and the medical center are part of my grad school memories. And the whole campus is, to me, kind of the Platonic form of a university campus. But I wrote about that last time we had a conference at UCLA.
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Weapons of judicial destruction
Republicans have never given me this much to work with; because had I written a post about how white-supremacists in the GOP are afraid of the consequences of having a Justice who eats patitas de cerdo, I would have been mocked and derided.
One cannot make this craziness up. From Conservative Whispers To Hill Reporter Of 'Concern' About The Impact Diet Will Have On Her Jurisprudence :: TPMDC:
Slightly gobsmacked, I called Bolton earlier today and asked him whether this was for real--whether any conservatives were genuinely raising this issue. He confirmed, saying, "a source I spoke to said people were discussing that her [speech] had brought attention...she intimates that what she eats somehow helps her decide cases better."
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Candy Really Is Dandy
Get ready for this bumper sticker: EAT CANDY. LIVE LONGER.
Here is another sweet spot in the US economy. Americans are buying more candy and that seems like a good decision. Financial insecurity is driving many people to candy, without regard to future health costs and risks associated with obesity and tooth decay. This gratification, stress relief strategy also occurred in the Great Depression. Apparently human behavior has not changed, despite the wide use of antidepressants and ready availability of all kinds of comfort foods. Candy is a relatively cheap and enjoyable fix for stress that even the financially strapped are willing to spend money on.
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Sarah Palin's turkey
I cannot get enough of Sarah Palin's cluelessness. I swear, it's just magic to me how she is lost in the happy-go-luckiness of her ignorance. Especially since she had just previously pardoned a frigging turkey at the same poultry farm.
As commenter teoleftfeet said over at Metafilter, "There's something very very surreal about government leaders sparing the life of a being and then ignoring the slaughter of others. Very very surreal."
Ignorance is indeed bliss.
Yet what's really over the top and had me literally rolling on the floor with tears streaming down my face was that the guy in the background comes back to do the unspeakable behind her all over again.
That's what we call chutzpah.
What do you crave when you're sick with a cold?
White rice cooked Puerto Rican style and and maduros (fried sweet platains).
What about you?
