Due to weather conditions and that we're moving BlatherMunch our self-indulgent, weekly food feature to its own site, we're taking the day off. We'll post details when we get the new blog finished. After today, this blog will be inedible. Read what's gone before on BlatherMunch here.
In keeping with the now evicted Blathermunch, check out Tom Douglas, Teri ????, Luke Burbank and Jen Andrews doing a radio version of Turkey 101.
Posted by: joanie | December 07, 2008 at 02:14 AM
This is hilarious
Posted by: sparky | December 07, 2008 at 11:14 AM
In the spirit of a dieing era, may I just reiterate: the 'Hawks SUCK! They are too small, too inept; their coach has checked out many moons ago...and sadly the pre-selected coach that will replace him also SUCKS. There's no hope for football in the State of Washington for the next three (3) years.
Posted by: Duffman | December 07, 2008 at 04:26 PM
I thought they were injury ridden - again. Is that Holmgren's fault? Why do you think he's on the way out?
Posted by: joanie | December 07, 2008 at 05:36 PM
You want a lesson in history? Read Frank Rich today. Interesting perspective.
Posted by: joanie | December 07, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Taking the risk that nobody cares, I'm posting two paragraphs from Rich's column that were particularly pointed and troubling:
"No doubt the Pavlovian ovations for the Obama team are in part a reaction to our immediate political past. After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it’s a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit. I also wonder if a press corps that underrated Obama’s political prowess for much of the campaign, demeaning him as a professorial wuss next to the brawny Clinton and McCain, is now overcompensating for that mistake. No one wants to miss out a second time on triumphal history in the making.
This, too, is a replay of what happened when Kennedy arrived, beating out the more seasoned Richard Nixon and ending eight years of Eisenhower rule. “Rarely had a new administration received such a sympathetic hearing at a personal level from the more serious and respected journalists of the city,” Halberstam wrote. “The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys and were for the same things the Kennedys were for.” They couldn’t imagine that “men who were said to be the ablest to serve in government in this century” would turn out to be architects of America’s “worst tragedy since the Civil War.”
I think Frank Rich is a brilliant political analyst and writer.
Posted by: joanie | December 08, 2008 at 12:30 AM