December 8th Detritus
God knows why my blogging has fallen off as of late. I suppose it’s because I have nothing I need to actively avoid; everything I don’t want to do these days is merely a question of benign neglect.
Anyway, silly things have been happening.
Tribune declared bankruptcy. It might have helped not to to take the company private and to, you know, put out a product that doesn’t blow chunks (and here I’m talking about the flagship, Chicago Tribune).
Speaking of things that make people sick, Burger King is running a pretty deplorable ad campaign. Entitled ‘Whopper Virgins’, the campaign has rounded up people from north of Chiang Mai, Thailand to taste test Whoppers versus Big Macs.
Personally, I think it’s the music that does it for me. The simple exoticism of it all is what makes it the most offensive. “Let’s give the barbarians Western things and see what they do with them!”
Less offensive if they were American Whopper virgins? I suppose, but the whole thing is just a bad idea (not to mention that the idea of finding an American who has missed out on this culinary treasure seems unlikely).
The MN recount has ended, though there is still the issue of the contested ballots and the possible addition of a number of the initially rejected ballots. The search for 133 ballots from U of M’s Dinkytown has apparently been abandoned, which is a bad thing for Franken. Franken’s people have him ahead, but we’ll see.
But maybe it’s not such a good thing if Franken wins. Nate Silver has some ideas about a Senate 58 versus 59 that I think are pretty compelling.
And, yeah, everyone’s all like, ‘That’s about enough Robert Mugabe!” But… we won’t do anything about it until far, far too late.
So let’s hope that Cubs sale goes well. So far, it’s a blast…
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December 9th, 2008 at 4:59 am
People who don’t even have a word for burger?! how can this be true!
December 9th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Yeah, it’s almost as if they don’t have a diet that consists entirely of cheap meat and garbage.