I eat a Burger King burger now and then, but I’m not sure I want to spray myself with their new cologne, Flame by BK.
Apparently it’s meat-scented. This is a joke, right? A whopper?
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December 21, 2008
Eau de beef
December 18, 2008
Squeaky Clean Oregon
Recent events have people speculating on the most corrupt state in the union. Illinois, Louisiana??? Via Yglessias we have a chart of public corruption by state over the last 10 years.
No major surprise here with Louisiana at #1. But I didn’t think Oregon would be absolute cleanest state in the union.
October 22, 2008
What not to wear, GOP-style
Apparently the GOP spent $150,000 on a makeover for Sarah Palin and her family in September. C’mon! The regular folks who appear on What Not to Wear buy “a whole new wardrobe” for $5,000.
October 21, 2008
Latte Wars
I’m from the Pacific Northwest (Starbucks territory) but I just visited the East Coast and was struck by the popularity of Dunkin’ Donuts there. Now Matthew Yglesias (location: DC) reports that Dunkin has taken the LEED, so to speak, in energy efficient stores. Among other things, a new store
…will have an on-site Earthworm Casting facility, [...]
August 7, 2008
Remembering Fawn Hall
I was surfing the web for info on the Iran-Contra scandal recently. I think it was because Iran-Contra seems like the template for the Bush/Cheney regime: contempt for Congress and the rule of law, a generalized worship of all things military, and an unbelievable incompetence. In any event, I stumbled on this, a [...]
August 7, 2008
What would Reagan do?
Conservatives are in a funk these days. W’s approval ratings hover at 30%. The GOP is about to nominate for president someone who once called Rush Limbaugh a clown and Jerry Falwell “an agent of intolerance”. Everyone knows it’s a Democratic year.
What’s a conservative to do these days?
In the case of The Heritage [...]
July 31, 2008
Culture War – Turkish style
I just finished reading the novel “Snow” by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. The central conflict in the story is between the protagonist, Ka, a educated, secular, urban, European-leaning Turk who travels to a rural city of Kars. There he encounters fundamentalist Islamists, Kurdish nationalists and others who feed on the resentment many of the [...]
January 26, 2008
Perspective
The Gaza Strip is in the news again:
“RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 23 — Gunmen destroyed vast sections of the seven-mile-long barricade that divides the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday, allowing tens of thousands of Palestinians to stream across the border and revel in a day away from a territory where Israeli restrictions have stifled [...]
January 10, 2008
No comment
From a Reuters report:
“Passing through a tiny “Door of Humility”, U.S. President George W. Bush made a pilgrimage to the traditional birthplace of Jesus on Thursday in the West Bank.”
December 22, 2007
And the winner is….PANTONE 18-3943
Wine makers have us describing the taste and smell of wine (fruity, bold, nutty with a hint of leather). If Pantone, a company that describes itself as “the world-renowned authority on color” has its way, we will be describing colors as well. Here is their 2008 color of the year,blue iris. As [...]