Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments I loved this section of the Salon article: The A.V. Club’s Nathan Rabin taste-tested the sandwich earlier this week with disastrous results (“each bite became a grueling endurance test … the sandwich grew more revolting-looking with each bite”), and the folks at Eater have called it “the harbinger of the breadless apocalypse.” And this review/taste-test was linked at Salon, it’s quite entertaining to read: http://www.avclub.com/articles/kfcs-double-down-sandwich,32804/ » Posted By AdLib On April 9, 2010 @ 1:40 pm Good thing The House is proportionate to population and not the weight of a population or we’d be sunk…literally! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 3:00 pm Yep, you can grow nearly anything in Cali. A warm welcome awaits you on your return to CA. We try to mix it up each year, this year we’re trying radishes for the first time. But I always grow tomatoes, you can’t get tomatoes like homegrown in any supermarket. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 2:58 pm Hey, maybe it’s a win-win. Just feed everyone on Death Row these as their last meals and save the expense of all that electricity. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 2:53 pm Can you ever! The Supersize comes with a photo of the actual complete pig that is in the sandwich and actually injects each fried chicken “bun” with a pint of nacho cheese. That’s goooood eatin’! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 2:50 pm Not only that, but if you grow fruits and veggies yourself, it’s great all the way around, budget-wise, health-wise and flavor-wise. My daughter and I plant our vegetable garden every year, we just did it over Easter break. She enjoys going into the backyard in the summer and having a bit of a buffet out there. This year we’re growing corn, broccoli, peas, beans, tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelon and more. It’s not a huge garden but enough to get a few of each growing. We’ve also got blackberry and strawberry bushes, fruit trees, etc. Again, it’s not a huge area but as we landscaped over the years, I always liked to plant trees and bushes that bore fruit so we could always have fresh and un-bioengineered things to eat. Plus, I felt that it would help teach my daughter patience and seeing the big picture, planting a seed then nurturing it so it grows into something very nice. And after all this time, that approach has indeed bore fruit! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 2:43 pm You make a solid point. And with the recent and continued rebel yell of The Confederacy to rally southern people, I think resentment and hatred connected to it is indeed a factor. I’ll bet some of the racist types sadly imagine how wonderfully they’d be living if slavery wasn’t ended. Instead, they have a black president. That must be a bit “disconcerting” to such types. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 2:33 pm Back at ya! That is the problem. If obese, dependent and not-as-bright Americans are thought of as addicts to “feeling good now”, Corporate America are in fact the pushers who keep supplying them to keep them hooked and continuing as a customer. That’s a tough cycle to break. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 2:29 pm Palin/Crisco 2012! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:58 pm You mean, maybe if Sarah Palin stuffs herself with bacon and cheese, coats herself in breading and deep fries herself, she can win the GOP presidential primary? » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:49 pm That’s the Double Down Light. The regular Double Down comes with a quarter pound of hickory smoked bacon and an artery stint to make sure the cholesterol gets a clear path to your heart. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:48 pm I have been shorting my arteries and buying heavily into hydrogenated derivatives. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:45 pm On a roll? Kes is on a Calzone! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:43 pm Hey Sanity! There is no better burger than the ones my wife makes with her special recipe (steak burgers really). Her homemade onion rings are light and the best. We don’t eat burgers often but we too enjoy making them to buying them. However, we do get an In-N-Out burger on occasion. In Europe and other parts of the world, cooking is viewed as one of the joys in life. For many overworked and exhausted Americans, it is a chore so they welcome the opportunity to hit the KFC or McDonalds with the kids. My daughter is 6 and we’ve never taken her to a McDonalds. She was with a friend once and called me from the car on the mom’s cell phone to tell me that they were going to McDonalds and she didn’t want to eat anything there. I told her it was okay and not to worry about getting whatever she wanted, she said she’d get a salad. We avoid chain restaurants for the most part and try to eat at local, proprietor-owned restaurants when we go out, to support them instead of the corporate giants. But we’re not absolutists about it. Your problem now is that you’ve brought your kids up to appreciate the flavor of real foods so you’ll never be able to slip the cheap stuff in on them. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:35 pm That’s why I provided those two maps. It may be just a coincidence but there is a resemblance between the concentration of people who voted Republican in one of the elections that most reasonable people couldn’t and the concentration of obese people in the nation. Both could be attributed to ignorance and not being accustomed to using reason to make decisions that are best for them in the long run. Doing what feels right or best now and not considering the long term or the ramifications. Of course, the Bible Belt runs through the South too. How does evangelism affect one’s ability to reason and understand logic? If one accepts that things that defy logic and reason happened 2000 years ago, might not one have lesser regard for critical thinking? I don’t think religion affects one’s ability to reason or use logic, I would just propose that evangelism may since it is by its nature opposed to respecting both. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:18 pm So true! While I was researching all the info in this article, I found then promptly lost an article with a long list of basic things about Christianity that a big minority or a majority got wrong. And yet, as you say, some of these same people hate Muslims, Jews and others for not believing in their religion…with which they are apparently only vaguely familiar. That is the serrated edge of religion, the “us vs. them” aspect which is very primal, the reptilian brain thing. I find no difference between those who belong to a political party, religion, city, state or country to which they ascribe their identity. There are soccer fans in the UK that will attack fans of other teams. There are people in rural areas that hate people because they’re from the city. And GOP vs. Dem, Christian vs. Jew vs. Muslim vs. Jew vs. Christian, etc. And yet, it always seems that those who hate the most are the least informed, those who are most aggressive about their beliefs and loyalty, often seem the least knowledgeable about it. Those who are more enlightened about their religion are more enlightened about other religions and thus can relate to others. The same with politics and all the rest. “Us vs. them” is the quick, easy, self-gratifying, lowest common denominator that even the most ignorant person can understand. And a little understanding can be a dangerous thing. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 1:11 pm I am right with you and Kes on this. I think a big factor is the denial of age and death. That plays right into the Consumer Mindset that corporate America wants so they are co-dependent in trying to keep American adults, thinking, acting and of course, impulse buying like children would, with no thought of consequences. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:59 pm Cher, love that you’re looking at it in this way, the “why” element would need an article to itself. I think it is a variety of things. Chiefly, the desire to feel good right now. I know it seems contrary that people would eat themselves into being so massive that rolling over is their grueling exercise for the day but when one focuses on immediate gratification, one embraces ignorance or denial (or both) about the ramifications of going for what makes you feel good right now. And corporations have spent decades perfecting market research on how to push the buttons in people that are wired to people’s desire for feeling good now. Sex, fatty and sweet foods, fashion, entertainment, etc. As to what is at the root of people focusing so much on indulging themselves today at the cost of tomorrow, I think it’s a cocktail of the following: a. The worsening standard of living depressing people, making them feel that there is no light at the end of the tunnel…so might as well go for gratification however they can now. b. Related to that, the inner and sometimes repressed awareness that what they were promised about the American Dream was not true. c. Disillusionment in religion and life over wanting to believe in God and goodness always winning over “evil” in the world but recognizing that’s just not the case. d. The lack of community, caring for our neighbors and soullessness in our society that corporate domination and technology has wrought (technology’s benefits of allowing people to work and entertain themselves self-contained instead of communally has been disconnecting people from each other). e. The “You can have it all” corporate America drumbeat as part of the campaign to keep Americans thinking and behaving like adolescent kids…and as I’ve mentioned before, for kids, there is only the present and having what one wants. f. Fear that the end is coming so enjoy yourself today. The end of what? America as we know it, America as THE superpower, white people being the majority (and feeling superior just for being white), the end of the world and The Second Coming (24% of Republicans do believe that Obama is the Antichrist) and last but not least…especially after the GOP fear machine…that tomorrow they could be killed by terrorists, death panels, socialism, black people, the government, Hitler, giant locusts, not having guns, etc. I think there are more elements in the mix, this has been brewing for some time so I don’t think one item in particular can be held responsible. The road back to well being, IMO, is feeling empowered to change the way things are and taking action to bring that about. Even if things don’t change in the near term (especially if they don’t, or it’s just more desire for instant gratification), the act of standing up for something worthwhile is in itself an affirmation of strength and the potential for people to change the way things are. If nothing else, the 2008 election and the passage of HCR should validate that people can come together and create change. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:56 pm Thanks Jen! Do you want that Double Down with fried lettuce and tomato? » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:18 pm Thanks TRP! Just hope nobody reading this eats more when they’re depressed! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:17 pm How about one of these Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburgers? » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:16 pm Cheers Kes! Thanks for the kind props! Nothing exceeds like excess! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:13 pm Thanks Cher for the kind compliments and both clips, enjoyed them much! I rushed out to see Idiocracy in it’s very brief release and blogged about it at the time. Why Fox ever put up the money for a film that assaulted the corporate mindset that is Fox is bewildering but once it was completed, Fox kept refusing to release it, finally giving it a tiny ONE WEEK release in very few theaters before pulling it. It has its flaws but it is one of the more imaginative and witty comedy films in recent years. As for the taco commercial, I barely remember it, very funny! It just kept building when you thought it had reached its limit, hilarious! » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2010 @ 12:10 pm Right with you Cher! Weapons will never bring peace to Israel, only honest and earnest negotiations on both sides can. As for Ed Krotch… » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 4:58 pm Will Google have to Leave the US Internet Now? What such a move would do is allow the FCC to require Net Neutrality so it would prevent the filtering or classism Comcast and other greedy corps want. It would not allow for IP blocking of a class of users. Broadband is different from the phone examples you mentioned, the end user can choose whatever front end browser, that makes no difference with broadband’s functionality. It is a leap to combine taxing internet purchases, charging fees for Skype, etc. with enforcing Net Neutrality. The FCC, until this ruling, already asserted that it had the right to regulate broadband and we still had no sales tax on purchases and no taxes or fees on VOIP. Internet sales taxes must be passed by Congress. I don’t know about usage fees or taxes on broadband but there would be no rational justification for it if the FCC’s more formal regulation of broadband really means keeping the status quo. The FCC is not talking about putting broadband under phone company regulations, the option they could use is to formally tag it as a heavily regulated telecommunications service but regulations would be unique to broadband, such as Net Neutrality. » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 1:40 pm There may be a silver lining here… With so much at stake, the FCC now has several options. It could ask Congress to give it explicit authority to regulate broadband. Or it could appeal Tuesday’s decision. But both of those steps could take too long because the agency “has too many important things they have to do right away,” said Ben Scott, policy director for the public interest group Free Press. The more likely scenario, Scott believes, is that the agency will simply reclassify broadband as a more heavily regulated telecommunications service. That, ironically, could be the worst-case outcome from the perspective of the phone and cable companies. “Comcast swung an ax at the FCC to protest the BitTorrent order,” Scott said. “And they sliced right through the FCC’s arm and plunged the ax into their own back.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/06/net-neutrality-us-court-r_n_526972.html » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 12:47 pm Whoops, it’s from Bowling For Columbine. Well done indeed. » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 1:55 pm Maybe we should rename this era, The Disinformation Age. Despite all the info available on the internet from so many sources, there seems to be an unapologetic, solipsistic mentality by those who feel sufficiently self-righteous that they are beyond needing a conscience over lying. The ends justify the means. Winning politically outweighs honesty and the truth. We are simultaneously an advanced society and one that is mired in selfishness as old as humanity. » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 1:51 pm That’s from Fahrenheit 9/11, isn’t it? » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 1:46 pm Man of Steele – Episode 23: “Black Kryptonite” The Teabagger movement is funded primarily by FreedomWorks which is primarily funded by David Koch, the 6th richest man in the US. It is an amalgam of a right wing corporate funded astroturf front, rural racists, the paranoid, gun nuts, anti-government zealots and people who are genuinely afraid and/or frustrated at the economic disaster this nation is struggling through. Please note that the poll dildenUSA kindly provided refers to how people feel about the teabaggers, supportive or not, it’s not the makeup of the membership which I think is clearly more extremist, ignorant loons than average Americans. Many of the teabaggers who are actually a part of the movement are hypocritically on government assistance. They are birthers, RWs who believed every stupid attack on HCR and Obama and still do. I will not buy this meme that the baggers truly are mainstream. They aren’t. It’s just that people are poorly informed as to what the real motivation and agenda is of these angry white people…or else there is a lot more latent racism and blind hatred out there than previously thought. » Posted By AdLib On April 6, 2010 @ 9:47 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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