“HATE TO LOVE”? Uh, that’s not what they said. When Playboy was shamed, and Politico wasn’t.
UPDATE: Politico tries to save face.
Author Archive: Ann Althouse
June 2, 2009
IT’S SLOW FOOD THAT’S MAKING US FAT. Restaurants like T.G.I. Friday’s, Chili’s, Applebee’s and The Cheesecake Factory plop down plates of 2,000+ calories. My advice: Don’t hate them. Just look at that plate as 2 or 3 meals, and don’t even think of eating the whole thing in one sitting.
ADDED: A reader emails:
I would be careful tossing around the term “slow food,” as it has a very specific meaning in the culinary world. To foodies, Slow Food represents the exact opposite of the chains you listed, and encompasses a philosophy of cooking and eatings centered around – in it’s simplest terms – the concept of “eat local/buy local.” Slow food puts and emphasis on fresh, organic produce and naturally raised meats produced within defined “eco-regions.” It puts a premium on healthy eating.
You know, I knew that, but I just lamely passed on the Daily News’s misusage. I will shop at Whole Foods for absolution.
KIM JONG-UN. In North Korea, they’re pledging allegiance to and learning songs about the youngest son of Kim Jong-il. He seems to be about 25 years old.
“PLEASE, DEAR GOD, DON’T LET GOVERNMENT MOTORS SCREW UP the Corvette until I finally get one. A 2009 Corvette ZR-1 in Blade Silver Metallic with the 638 horsepower LS9 engine, Brembo disc brakes and a six speed transmission.” Dream cars. Then and now. In the comments: “[My dream car is t]he apple green Hyundai Accent. It’s green and I can fit lots of stuff in the back.”
ASPERATUS. It’s a new kind of cloud!
June 1, 2009
TAKING ATTENDANCE WITH iPHONES. In Japan, “students will be required to enter their ID number into an iPhone application at the beginning of class. The phone will pinpoint the students’ location when they do, to ensure they are actually on campus.” Nothing can stay cool forever, including that GPS device you’re carrying around.
A SEQUEL TO HEATHERS! You bring the popcorn. I’ll bring the corn nuts.
COOKING VAMPIRE. With buckets of blood. “I suppose it doesn’t sound very good to be associated with sucking blood, but I don’t really care. Perhaps it will give me the strength of a vampire.”
“I THINK PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE FREE to enter into any kind of union they wish,” says Dick Cheney, doing his usual thing of currying favor with the lefties.
“ENABLE COMMENTS! We have stormed the Bastille!” I asked for suggestions, and I got one. I’m intrigued. And I see the check box… so… Let the blood flow! UPDATE: I’m just seeing that I need to approve comments, and there are a ton of them. Unfortunately, I started doing it in reverse chronological order. (How like a blogger!) So hold on. I’m not rejecting anything. Just going backwards… AND: I’ve moderated all the pending comments. It really was too hard, especially in this software. You can’t “select all” as you can in Blogger. And I prefer to allow all the comments and then delete as needed. Maybe that wouldn’t work here. A lot of people found it fun to say Wow, I’m commenting on Instapundit! I wonder what would happen if comments were the norm around here. Would people say a lot interesting things? Or would too many readers go into the comments instead of clicking off to the linked articles and blogs. And you know, what I like is when you follow links over to my blog… and then hang out in my comments…
17 ONLINE DATING PROFILE CLICHES for women to avoid. Why women? The author of the linked post — who, full disclosure, is my older son — has not spent time perusing the profiles of men.
TWO-FACED PRONOUNCEMENTS TAKEN AT FACE VALUE — a nice Matt Welchism. Matt’s discussing this column by Robert J. Samulson on the press’s infatuation with Obama: “The press has become Obama’s silent ally and seems in a state of denial. But the story goes untold.” Well, yeah. The truly insane are the ones who never look into the question of their possible insanity. What’s to report? ADDED: As an emailer points out, the two-faced/face value witticism is in the original Samuelson article.
I’M GRADING EXAMS at a Starbucks in Cincinnati. They’ve got The Doors streaming out of the ceiling speakers, and I can tell you for certain: I don’t give a damn about Morrison’s mojo rising. Just shut up about it already, Jim.
“8 NEW WAYS YOU MIGHT BE INSANE.” One is “Internet Addiction”:
According to an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, this is a disorder “that involves online and/or offline computer usage and consists of at least three subtypes: excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations, and email/text messaging.” It has several components, including excessive use, which is “often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives”; withdrawal, which leads to “feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression when the computer is inaccessible”; tolerance, meaning “the need for better computer equipment, more software, or more hours of use”; and negative repercussions, “including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue.”
Whew! Fortunately, it didn’t say anything about blogging.
ADDED: Heh.
THANKS, GLENN. And if anyone wants to email me, it’s my full name (with no space) @gmail.com. Do we still have to act all coy about writing out email addresses, or does that make me look like I don’t know my way around the internet? Anyway, send me some tips and suggestions. I’m looking for stuff to link, so I can be more Glenn-like and get Rick Brookhiser off my case.
LEGAL REALISM. A new/old bugaboo for Sotomayor opponents. I would love to have a sophisticated national dialogue about Legal Realism (which is much-discussed here at the University of Wisconsin Law School), but so far it looks as though the discussion will not be too sophisticated. It’s pretty much: she talked about Legal Realism, Legal Realism is judicial activism, and judicial activism is judges imposing their own political preferences, so Sonia Sotomayor is unfit for the Supreme Court. But, as University of Chicago lawprof Brian Leiter said:
“Everybody who knows anything knows that Legal Realism is a description of what judges really do… I give [Sotomayor] a lot of credit, frankly, for talking about it openly. It’s unusual for a sitting judge to say it openly, because judges don’t want to attract the political heat from acknowledging what everyone already knows, which is that appellate judges especially have to make new law – that they can’t just apply the law as written.”
I would love to have more Supreme Court Justices who say what they really think. Imagine if, when reading a “decision,” we were actually reading the decision.
CANDOR REJOINDER. “I think most scholars and commentators who study the judicial appointments process would agree with the statement that candor has not been considered a positive characteristic for Supreme Court nominees for quite some time.”
NICE LAMBSCAPE. From my colleague Nina Camic, who’s hiking, photographing, and blogging her way across the Great Glen Way Trail in Scotland.
FAME HURTS. “Susan just wants to come home and see her cat.”