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Needs less Chris Crocker...

Kanye + Chris Crocker. Oh boy.

Anything Kanye says can suck my ass. He'd pimp his own mother if he knew it would score him some PR.

As for Chris Crocker...never mind.

Maybe today is the day to pass on the Slog. I never understood the Strangers fascination with that douchebag, anyway.

Defending Britney: It’s not just for Chris Crocker anymore.

"MTV does not care about white girls."

Yeah, I'd like to see you pass on Slog for four minutes.

The article on obesity is ridiculous. Dur, the richer you are, the healthier the food you can afford.

Yeah. I'd like to see me pass on Slog for four minutes. Sigh.

That median price for homes in Seattle shocked me. Yesterday, 8:11amPST, I was sitting down cutting oranges in half for our juicer. My son brings in the Seattle Times and plops it on the table. I couldn't do anything but stare in disbelief. It was like civilization had come to a standstill. Our neighbor knocked on the front door, and asked if we had heard the news. I said "yes, the artcle is on our kitchen table as we speak." My father-in-law then called from NY of all places (an excerpt of Steve Reich's 'Different Trains' had vibrated the thingie in my pocket). He simply wanted to catch up, and tell us a bit about their recent vacation in Jerusalem and the other holy lands. I stopped him short, "Dad," I said, "the median price in Seattle for a house is much more than we had previously thought." I heard the phone drop out of his hand.

Tomorrow's installment of "Drama of a Househusband":
Little Joey joins the debate team and plays devil's advocate to himself concerning the exponential rise of bi-polar "victims."

I think you mean, "Fat? Maybe you should move to a *more expensive* neighborhood."

Ok, I love me some Kathy Griffin and I love her even more now:

"I guess hell froze over," Kathy Griffin told told the audience as she accepted her Emmy trophy at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on Saturday for her My Life on the D-List series. "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this. He had nothing to do with this... Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now."

Naturally, Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, found he couldn't turn the other cheek, calling what she said a "kind of vulgar in-your-face brand of hate speech" coming from a self-described "complete militant atheist." Which, of course, is exactly what won her the Emmy in the first place.

http://worldofwonder.net/

Kanye West is a whiney baby girl.

Anyone that sure of his own talent to assume he should win every award shouldn't really need any awards to tell him he is great, now should he?

So which is it Kanye? Are you THAT good? Or do you need MTV's approval?

And Mr. Poe skipping slog? Now that's just plain funny.

@7: Oops. You're right, thanks. Fixed.

All the ranting about Britney's performance has afforded me the opportunity to watch it several times. You know, I think I'm beginning to like it. Even her pilled-up, low-energy moves strike me with an "I don't give a fuck" punk-rock attitude. I'm going to buy her album.

Even her pilled-up, low-energy moves strike me with an "I don't give a fuck" punk-rock attitude.

Oh, that would be awesome, if she did kind of a Sid Vicious nihilism power-dive. Claimed her white trash roots and just went for it. It'd be even better if her music went that way.

If she gets the Drive By Truckers to do backup for her, that album I'll buy.

Yeah! Pull a total Debbie Gibson!

or backup by 16 Horsepower! Britney-hump!

Someone please pass along along the lines of an apology to Mr Fozzlebery, BOAT Esq. --

i found a classical guitar at a post-sundown garage sale, and felt driven to pound away 'Mama Tried' until I sequenced the Rocky Top melody in towards the verse recognition, "Dear old Daddy, bless his soul..."

Can we get Mudede to weigh in on the design of these newfangled NYC news kiosks?

I am with #4. I don't see how its a big surprise that the more money you have the better you eat. But I will say the PI headline was downright awful:

"overweight? blame your zipcode".

WTF is that??? Are these people actual newsreporters or just 9th grade english students?

"overweight? blame your zipcode".

WTF is that??? Are these people actual news reporters or just 9th grade english students?

16's right. Way to confuse correlation with causation, P-I nitwit. And since when is it news that more lower-class / low-income people are fat?

I'm gonna have to rain on their "it's expensive to eat healthy" parade, because actually it's not.

You can buy canned or frozen vegetables for like $0.80. Even cheaper if you go to farmer's markets and get the things yourself. Buy oatmeal instead of sugar packed cereal, etc.

You don't have to shop at Whole Foods aka "Whole Paycheck" to eat a healthy, balanced diet; that's just marketing.

People eat way too much and they eat way too many prepackaged and processed foods and those are expensive. Throw fast food and convenience food in the mix, and that's why there are so many fat poor people, not to mention a lack of exercise.

It's a lack of basic nutritional knowledge, physical fitness and education that's the problem - it's cheaper to eat healthy.

lmao,

monkey uses one of my fav phrases "whiney baby girl"

@18 - I agree. You can buy a month's supply of beans and rice for next to nothing. That's how the rest of the world's poor people survive.

Lack of education and uber-marketing of fast food are to blame.

City planning is a biggie too. If you are able to walk to "whole paycheck" but in Federal Way your options are drive thru windows and there are zero sidewalks....yooze gonna be sluggish.

How can you miss the big story of the day:

"No chickens allowed in Soap Lake"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003880795_webnochickens12.html

I have to generally agree with @18. There is a little something to the "eating healthy is more expensive" argument, but it's significantly overstated. I fear that a lot of public policy folks will be disappointed to find that many will still fail to eat healthy even when given access to cheaper nutritious food. It's education and the formation of habit that is the biggest problem.

Maybe it should be revised to "eating OUT healthy is more expensive."

Since I think all income brackets suffer from being tired and unmotivated after work, and not wanting to cook. For the rich, it's Nobu, for the poor, it's McDonalds.