Stations of the cross
Cross? Yes I am.
I would probably go to the co-op up the street more often were it not so heavily infested with hippies. Slow moving, aisle-blocking, filled with the beauty of spring and about as quick to get to any other given point, fucking hippies.
So slow the second-fastest moving person at the co-op today was a one-legged young woman who crutched her way through the store at light speed compared to the label-examining, produce-sniffing, slack-brained organically driven shoppers who were rivaled in their slowness only by the granola-breathed volunteers clogging the aisles and slowing down the check out process.
There’s a reason why Boomers of my age bracket were willing to be called freaks. Any name was fine but hippy because hippies are, um, you know.
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Start with Jerry Lemaine today. I dare you. And click to the second page because they couldn’t cram all the atrocities into the lead graf.
With the possible exception of North Korea, I cannot think of another nation on earth that treats visitors and foreign residents so poorly, or which does so as consistently and mean-spiritedly. Each and every day we tell thousands of people who weren’t born in this country to fuck off, eat shit and die, and I’m past being embarrassed by it and am now just enraged by our betrayal of our own immigrant roots to the shrill caterwauling of our xenophobic Becks, Hannitys and Limbaughs and their hordes of empty-headed followers.
Not that we treat our own much better, not if by our own you mean the frail and elderly. And god help the kids (especially in Ohio).
But still, things are getting better [that case impacts Jerry Lemaine's], and we have prospects for still more improvement on the horizon. However slowly some are coming to their senses.
Unless, of course, you’re a ring-kissing Catholic. Or worse, a Rwandan Priest. Neither Obama or Pelosi can do anything about spiritual shackles. (And no, apparently the Pope cannot be impeached but I think the Church has other ways of fixing these things that make impeachment seem rather mild.)
Leave it to the Catholic League to make things worse. Each day they get closer and closer to becoming indistinguishable from Fred Phelps and his whelps.
And lets not forget that 1995 vibe out there. [More from Dave Neiwert and Rachel Maddow (video)]
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Garrison Keillor on all of the above and why you should feel free to disregard bloggers like me (or maybe not me, per se).
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Unsurprisingly, wingnut paranoia over the census may cost them seats in Congress.
Fucking maroons.
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It should go without saying, but sometimes when cops shoot someone, that’s a good thing. From the Daily Glean:
It was a wild scene in Cottage Grove Tuesday as a cop was dragged almost 600 feet by a guy who suddenly decided he wasn’t going to put up with a traffic stop. The cop involved ended up shooting and killing the driver, with the guy’s wife and 11-month-old child in the car. A relative takes an unsentimental view of the death in Elizabeth Mohr’s PiPress story: “Until recently, the couple and their infant son had been living in Woodbury with Jessica’s mother,
Suzi, and her husband, Tim Clark. Tim Clark said he wasn’t shocked by the news, saying [the deceased] Robert “Bobby” Wilson has a lengthy criminal history, which, according to court records, includes assault with a dangerous weapon, theft and drug possession. ‘I’m sorry it had to come to this, but this does not surprise me at all … Do you know what a relief it is to know he’s not going to be able to do anything to anybody anymore? It’s nothing but one big relief.’ “
Sounds like someone we’re better off without. Also from today’s Glean:
An AP story says that the Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill that will allow children to perform in bars on school nights. One legislator “wants to allow children to perform — with a parent present — in a dance hall, night club, tavern or similar place before 9 p.m. on school nights or before 10 p.m. other nights. And only for musical or theatrical performances.”
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I would have enjoyed this article on exercise a lot more had the author not willfully distorted a study’s findings by ignoring the fact that fit people weigh more per square inch than unfit people, muscle weighing more than fat.
A cheap bit of talk radio statistical analysis, which is, more and more, what I’m coming to expect from The Daily Beast. Better than Mediaite, but not by much.
Yes, a new notch in the belt today. That’s eight new notches, or one for every two pounds I’ve lost and I haven’t felt this good in years.
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Raw stories:
Greenpeace on the Koch Bros., and no, I don’t mean the talented brothers who play for UNI
More on Caroline Hunter
Yes Men do the wurlitzer thing and the media falls in hook, line and no factchecking
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More:
Yeah, I did a double-take too when I saw that Palin interviewed LL Cool J, probably because she didn’t [more]
Seniors having a moment at the expense of prisoners
A startling series of tweets that make me think my beer bender the other night may have been initiated by my inner wingnut
The DfuckingCCC
What if reichwing media wanted to incite violence?
First Do No Harm (part 2)
Ahmed fucking Chalabi, cont.
Tarryl Clark or Dr. Maureen Reed
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Etc.:
New Bits (and the free Thai/Cambodian music download alone is worth the click, so much so you might want to donate to that eminently worthy cause)
I suspect this is far from being bad news
Toyota, sudden acceleration and cosmic rays
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And just to reiterate a point I keep making, we’ve got high unemployment because productivity improvements mean we don’t need as many workers.
Isn’t it time we dealt with that fact and reinvested in education to help raise a new generation of business leaders who are focused on jobs creation over excess profit?
Couldn’t agree more on the hippie coop thing. I don’t think I ever left the Wedge in a good mood. It’s one thing to want organic food; it’s another thing entirely to wander around in a daze and take 20 minutes to do something that should take five.
Um. Sorry, but muscle does NOT weigh more than fat.
1 pound of fat weighs the same as 1 pound of muscle =
1 pound.
http://www.onemorebite-weightloss.com/muscle-to-fat.html
Muscle is denser than fat, therefore it does weigh more … per square inch. The 1lb=1lb line is like saying a dime is worth the same as a quarter, because $1 worth of quarters = $1 worth of dimes.
Hmm, how do I lure Tild back here to read your comment without reigniting the co-op wars?
Sorry. I’ll stay out of it.
Stoo, did you even click the link I supplied?
http://www.onemorebite-weightloss.com/muscle-to-fat.html
To be clearer, I should have said we’re talking about a difference in volume, not weight. To quote from the article:
“Muscle Does Not Weigh More Than Fat (five pounds is five pounds), but it is Much Nicer to Look at”
And please take a look at the very illustrative photo, ok?
That’s it for me. I’m outta here.
Let the hippie-bashing continue!
I know too many people who make the 1lb=1lb argument seriously to spot a subtle jab at it. It’s kind of Poe like.
Oh yeah, and one more thing:
As a 57 year old who self-identified as a freak in college,
and who is a longtime co-op member,
and who takes my own goddamn time “label-examining and produce-sniffing” thank you very much,
let me just say, as gently as possible:
Tough titty. Life is hard.
That is all.
Well, do you thing you could, like, make a list before you go to the store? You must have some familiarity with the products by now, and the manner with which they are organized so that you don’t have to wander helter skelter from one end of the story to the other and back again. Oh. And move your cart to the side while you’re sniffing, please. Cuz, like, there are other people trying to get down the aisle. And do you really have to sample every single thing at the deli counter? And speaking of the deli counter, please don’t take a number and then wander away so that they have to call your number seven times when it’s your turn. And could you maybe have your money or check or debit card ready by the time the cashier tells you the total? And if you brought your own bag, don’t wait until the bagger has already bagged your stuff before you remember to mention it. Please.
Heard this?
Vatican Offers 3 Reasons It’s Not Liable For Abuse (30 Mar 10)
http://www.wwl.com/Vatican-offers-3-reasons-it-s-not-liable-for-abuse/6693697
Hey. BigDaddyMal.
I don’t do any of that stuff, and frankly I resent you lumping me in with every person you ever encountered at a co-op who does.
A lot of people at co-ops don’t act that way, and that’s just as valid a generalization as yours.
I wasn’t really trying to lump you in. I was just trying to put a finer point on what Mark was complaining about. And yeah, I know that not all co-op customers behave that way, but a large percentage of them do.
I think the thing that bugs me the most about these types of folks at the co-ops is that I have an expectation that co-op patrons are not simply after organic food, but also a generally better, less head-up-their-ass way of living. But it turns out that a disappointingly high number of them are just huppies (Hippie + Yuppie) who view organics as status symbols.
This especially bugs me when they are in my way.
& strictly in my own defense (BDM is on his own), my co-op has very narrow aisles and is easily gridlocked.
That’s most of the problem right there: your garden-variety coop works out of a small space. The niche/boutiquey items for sale criticism is valid up to a point, but then that’s true of a lot of what’s on offer in America when you get right down to it. Ever gone down the toy aisle in WalMart? But the store is freakin’ huge.
Mississippifarian wrote: Isn’t it time we dealt with that fact and reinvested in education to help raise a new generation of business leaders who are focused on jobs creation over excess profit?
And make sure they know nothing of Atlas Shrugged!
Bloody gits!
It is possible to remove a pope. See: The council of Sutri. First, we need a German king to march his army into Rome.
To Bamburg!
Bamburg?
That must be where Pope Emeril lives.