Doonesbury

is on a roll this week.

I have many qualms

but this has stuck in my cranial sieve, so it clearly has impact.

(Gleaned from All Hat)

The future

If only. 

Funny how wrong

resonates more than right. I would never have heard of these if they'd been tasteful. 

Coulda been the off-lede

this a.m. in my hometown paper. 

Jeet?

Can't remember. 

Too close for parody

One nation

under the bed. Of course, figures lie and liars figure, because this story mentions ground beef in passing, but the pants-wetting seems to be over produce. McDonald's, after all, is a constitutional right. 

About Time

someone pointed out the obvious. That chicken drivel really was the nadir. 

Slow food day

but wine? Nice. 

Subway lunch and dinner for a month, though, are not going to nourish future fossils to fuel future cars. . . 

Big chicken in cowhide boots

No 99-cent burgers wanted in South Korea. No tinhorn dictators, either. 

End times

are near. What, they couldn't get raspberry and chocolate into it? 

I always thought

Robert Downey Jr. could do no wrong, then he dropped a Burger Death promo into "Iron Man." All is now forgiven. Maybe.

(Gleaned from Eater)

I think McDonald's

pulled the wrong ingredient.

Worse than I realized

Don't know that I can recall a front page like this during any of the many, many E. coli beef recalls in which people actually did die. Talk about sacred steers.

Is it meant to put you off your meat?

Oddest ad campaign yet for a burger chain. 

(Filched from metafilter.com)

Let Allah sort 'em out

Stick a straw in it. It's done.

(Cribbed from crooks&liars.)

Keep your eye on the scarf

The wonder boy turns up the real reason Dunkin is evil: By not providing health insurance for workers but paying them so little that they qualify for Medicaid, the chain pushes the cost onto the taxpayers. It's the Wal-Mart scamola, forcing Big Government to subsidize Big Business while clinging to the conservative antipathy toward universal health care. There should be a VAT on every cup of that bitch's brew. And I don't mean Rachael. 

The future looks fat

That's a lot of 99-cent meals. And to forestall any complaints about headline insensitivity, I have to note that both USA Weekend and Time had the same advice this weekend. The sidebar in what's becoming Survivalist Weekly (first the economy, now true disaster) is not online, so I am poaching: "Get in shape! The cruel reality of physics is that overweight people move more slowly and need more space, so they have more trouble fleeing. On 9/11, people with low physical abilities were three times as likely to be hurt while evacuating the Towers." That said, I'm not heartless. I know from experience it is far, far harder to lose it than it is to keep it off. Actually, the reverse is true, too. Which means little kids living on clown calories are getting screwed.  

A star crossed

My astropal may have the ultimate take on why the wingnuts won a victory that is already looking literally hollow, considering how appeasement can be a bitch in a country where a staggering 77 percent have turned against the conservative in chief. Next up, I hope, is a read on why an anchor baby would be so rabid about everything else that might be perceived as less than American. But at least I suppose we'll be spared breakfast burritos with sprinkles on top anytime soon.