KQED

This is why the “Center for Consumer Freedom” (aka the deep-fried cigarette lobby) can call them “the food police” and say the real problem is “people’s unwillingness to take personal responsibility for their own diets” and that’s why people shouldn’t get to know what’s in food and still be considered credible.

By the way, the use of the word “freedom” by these various lobbying and other organizations has kind of made me associate the word with cackling, stogie-clenching morbidly obese men in pinstriped suits holding a dollar-sign-emblazoned flour sack in each hand.

Well… there’s your liberal bias!

Corn is people, y’know. Just read Pollan and Diamond Miguel Ángel Asturias for more details.

Hell, just read the Popul Vuh for more details.

Yes – and I heard it here first.

Is that like a walk-in microwave? If so, I hope he can turn it on from the inside.

Is that with or without pubic hair?

It does make a good excuse for them to do so, from their own twisty point of view. I say go on with it! I’ll be annoyed as hell, I promise.

I do wonder how they reconcile their love of shitfood with their “buycott” at Whole Foods? Maybe they just buy expeller-pressed canola oil there at the usual fat markup and drink it straight. That annoys the hell out of me, I promise.

BTW Last I heard about Adam Yoshida he was trying to run up his energy usage by leaving his macrowave on nonstop.

Here’s the kicker: things like “feeding your family healthful foods” used to be what most folks would consider a somewhat conservative value, along with “don’t be wasteful” and “save your money instead of blowing it on every new gadget that comes along.” I know this because I was raised by parents who were conservative in the traditional sense of the term.

So was I. I grew up in Minnesota – Lake Woebegone land – and “be thrifty, live within your means, don’t watch so much TV, go outside and get some fresh air, eat your carrots, don’t fill up on junk you’ll ruin your dinner, etc.” was what “conservatism” used to mean.

You just want to say, “just wait until your father gets home, mister!” to these idiots.

Tried? When Sinclair ran for governor of California in 1934, he was subjected to the most relentless smear campaign in the history of politics up to that point. Newsreels, billlboards, newspaper articles depicted bums slavering over the chance to come to California and sponge off the taxpayers. It was the prototype of modern attack ads.

Granted, a lot of Sinclair’s political ideas were kind of flaky. I’m not sure I would have voted for him myself. But the election coverage was borderline criminal.

I long for the day Papa Fidel is in power to mandate the consumption of fake-buttered popcorn. As long as he also insists we consume our daily ration of Jordan Almonds for our Muslimoffascist allies.

Stop giving Homer Simpson another excuse.

People have been getting pissed at CSPI over stuff like this for years. In nine out of 10 cases, the criticism amounts to “LALALALALA IT TASTES GOOD LALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU LEAVE ME ALONE!”

Will they now, like Adam Yoshida firing up all electrical appliances in his home 24/7, now consume buckets and buckets and buckets of buttered popcorn, just to make us liberals annoyed?

The government still has to power to label you an ‘enemy combatant’ and lock your ass in jail without trial.

Idiot.

What do we have for the winner, Johnny?

Well, Wade, we have A YEAR’S SUPPLY OF INTERNETS!