Slog - Comments on What the Hell is Joel Connelly Talking About? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a Joel Connelly and Joni Balter, talking to Steve Scherr about the Seattle School Board elections on KUOW this morning: Connelly: "I think that it is a tribute to the system that for such a thankless job we can get challengers of such quality ... to basically steer the school board away from a kind of Baskin and Robbins, race-centered approach where every little flavor gets its piece of the pie and--" Balter (laughing): "Ice cream pie, right?" Connelly: "An ice cream pie and a school board that works on behalf of all God’s children." Scherr: "More metaphors than ever this... Copyright 2008 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:45:31 -0800 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:54:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by DOUG. I listened to that. Joel Connelly is a wheezy boob.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842077 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842077 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:45:29 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 Yes. He's constructing a racist slur with ice cream. It takes a certain kind of koo koo to pull that off.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842079 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:46:37 -0800 Comment by max solomon he's talking about why seattle schools are fucking pitiful & the school board can't do anything right. but beyond that, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

he's an idiot.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842108 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842108 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:03:12 -0800 Comment by Andrew Someone as boring and pedantic as you are, Erica, would definitely be vanilla.

Or maybe just "milk flavored".

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842123 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:19:34 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle ECB is rum flavored vanilla. It looks vanilla, but is much better.

Now Joel ... yeah, vanilla. And not even good French Vanilla.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842152 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842152 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:50:16 -0800 Comment by David Wright Max is right. Connelly does a great job at putting his foot in his mouth, but his sentiment here is right-on. The Seattle Schools need to stop worrying about individual flavors and start worrying about how to get their damn refrigeration system working.

]]> David Wright http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842153 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:50:40 -0800 Comment by Gomez Does Joel Connelly dream of black corpses hanging from the trees in his front yard? Y/N?

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842256 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:13:54 -0800 Comment by Mitch Suprised you have not mentioned that in this morning's PI Connelly wrote of "Karl Rove wannabes at The Stranger"

?

]]> Mitch http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842258 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842258 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:14:17 -0800 Comment by Tlazolteotl So, a local judge gets in trouble for asking "what flavor are you?" but if Joel uses the same imagery to refer to schoolchildren, people think it's funny? I don't get it.

]]> Tlazolteotl http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842301 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/what_the_hell_is_joel_connelly_talking_a#c842301 City Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:54:34 -0800