Yesterday on this here blog, I recommended the Jennie-O Turkey Pot Roast as a thing of great convenience, terrific value and exquisite flavor. Many of you have written me that you've been able to find them in your local Costco, Kroger, Ralphs or other retail outlet. Good for you. Some of you have written to […]
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I rarely agree with Farhad Manjoo, who covers matters of technology for Slate. But he's right that Weather Underground is the place to go for the best forecasts on the web. I actually pay attention to this stuff and W.U. is where I go. Like most of these sites, much of what they offer is […]
Here's another episode of Richard Turner's demonstration of how he can cheat you at cards. You'll notice he occasionally has to ask people the denomination of a card or if it's face-up or face-down. This is because his vision is so bad he sometimes can't make them out. His hands, however, never get confused… […]
Michael Kinsley discusses Rick Santorum. Personally, I think the Google definition of "santorum" oughta be what you settle for when nothing else seems satisfactory…though in his speeches lately, the one-time senator from Pennsylvania seems determined to make Dan Savage's definition stick. I still think the Republican community will eventually settle on Romney for precisely the […]
Down on Fairfax, south of Olympic, there's an area now known as Little Ethiopia because it contains around a half-dozen Ethiopian restaurants and one or two retail stores with Ethiopian groceries or gifts. Back in the eighties and before, most of the buildings housed delicatessens and the largest was The Bagel, a very genial place […]
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Here's a list of 11Ill-Conceived TV Spinoffs That Almost Happened. Believe it or not, I was offered but turned down a non-speaking on-camera role in one of these. […]
Longtime readers of this blog have seen me rave about the Jennie-O Turkey Pot Roast. This is something the Jennie-O company makes in two forms. One is an offering to retailers. Your local market can get these in, heat them up and then sell them in the same display case as the hot rotisserie chickens. […]
Bruce Bartlett amplifies on why he's been calling for a rewrite of U.S. tax codes to make them fairer. That oughta be done. The problem is that every time we change the tax codes, someone — usually very rich people — have the clout to have the new codes say that their kind of income […]
I like Twitter. I'm thinking of insisting my friends limit everything they say to me to 140 characters. # In Michigan, Romney and Santorum are battling to see which of them will be the guy Republicans dislike less than the other one. # […]
It's been a while since I featured anything here with the great Daws Butler. He's the voice of Yogi Bear while Don Messick speaks for Mr. Ranger, Sir in this Kellogg's commercial. I would wager serious money that Yogi's mispronunciation of "crispier" as "cripsier" was a Daws adjustment to the copy. He was always finding […]
I had a 180-minute lunch today with one of my favorite bloggers…and I hear he also sometimes writes and/or directs TV and also sportscasts baseball games. His name is Ken Levine and if you're not checking out his weblog every day, you're missing out on some of the cleverest writing on the web. The funny […]
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There's a battle going on for the control of Archie Comics. This article explains it all and even quotes me. […]