Hey @McDonalds–I don’t think “artisan” means what you think it means. pic.twitter.com/RzjqdPLdCO — Tom Furtwangler (@tomfurt) April 30, 2014 Brianne Alcala observes how fast-food chains are jumping the shark and onto the bandwagon: McDonald’s is not the first to co-opt “artisan.” Its rival Subway has “sandwich artisans”; Domino’s offers ARTISAN™ pizzas, such as Tuscan Salami & Roasted Veggies; Dunkin’ Donuts promoted Artisan Bagels; … Continue reading Artisanal Everything
Especially for comedians – brutal: After reading Lizza’s detailed look at Bridgegate, Cassidy suspects Christie is cooked: According to some reports, the criminal investigation could take up to eighteen months. With all this hanging over the Governor, it seems almost inconceivable that he would plunge into a Presidential campaign. If he did, he would be inviting attacks not … Continue reading The Christie Scandal Isn’t Over
A reader writes: I realised recently that this month marks 12 years of my daily visits to The Dish. I recall that you received a flood of toasts and roasts on your 10th anniversary, but I thought you might appreciate receiving another such email out of the blue. I live in Hong Kong and in … Continue reading Email Of The Day
Today on the Dish, Andrew jumped off of Noah Millman's point on gay rights to make a larger point about Tea Party nostalgia and America's future. He endorsed some of Pete Wehner's explanation of Bill O'Reilly on Park 51, and Andrew, Frum and others bounced back and forth on a post-November GOP. Jonah Goldberg and Jonathan Chait bet their blogs on Obama's impeachment, while Thoreau and Drum played along.
Andrew called foul on the Obama administration on DADT, while Ed Morrissey envisioned a scenario where the injunction lasted for the next two years. Brian Palmer explained how the military figures out which soldiers are gay, Glenn Beck was disgusted by bigotry for sport, a pollster explained America's increasing support for gay equality, and this Catholic primate thought AIDS was "immanent justice."
Andrew bucked Jamelle Bouie's jeers at the "successful."Joyner agreed that ADHD may be a symptom of an archaic education system, and U.S. life expectancy was low because of Medicare. Oregon was bicurious via our readers, Kaiser looked at the popularity of a health care repeal, and readers weighed in on absentee voting. Reagan reduced California's incarcerations, and the ethanol lobby fueled full-steam ahead. A paraplegic walked on a robot exoskeleton, and Greenwald likened the war on drugs to the war on terror. Pot was more popular than some politicians, Chris Hayes visited and began to understand what occupation requires, and Israel took more steps backwards. More voices sounded off on the foreign money bonanza, Ackerman previewed Monday's WikiLeaks dump, and Larison didn't want to confuse military spending with defense spending.
Hathos red alert here, FOTD here, chart of the day here, quotes for the day here, more responses to views from the recession here, creepy ad watch here, views from your CPAP here, Grant Gallicho's Dish roast here, Jonathan Bernstein's toast here, VFYW here, email of the day here, MHB here, and more beard sportage here.
Thursday on the Dish, Andrew marvelled at Obama's record thus far, even if his messages sometimes suffered for it. Andrew nodded in agreement with Douthat over climate change, and still believed conservatives should seek to conserve. Tim Lee and Andrew expressed concern over the rise of absentee ballots, and Christine O'Donnell was the perfect product of America's talk show culture.
Today on the Dish, Andrew marvelled at Obama's record thus far, even if his messages sometimes suffered for it. Andrew nodded in agreement with Douthat over climate change, and still believed conservatives should seek to conserve. Tim Lee and Andrew expressed concern over the rise of absentee ballots, and Christine O'Donnell was the perfect product … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
A reader writes:
After a whole day of reading the Dish blog about itself, I'm starting to see Christine O'Donnell's point about masturbation.
Another writes:
First, happy 10 years. Second, thanks for the toast/roast event, which has led me to some blogs and bloggers that I never have clicked on before, opening my mind up to some other voices. Which is, in some way, the whole point of the Blogosphere, yes?
Another:
While many think of a blog as a wholly new medium, others compare it to a sort of magazine. I think it is in many ways it is actually a fusion of newspaper, magazine, and TV channel. The latter is in part due to your ability to show video, but it has more to do with how your posts or "segments," if you will, roll out through the day. I can follow the Dish during the day in much the same way I would if I left my favorite channel running in the background while I do my work or chores or cooking. Your posts come to me in time such that there can be a flowing continuity of information, covering many threads, some of which I allow to interrupt my day while I explore them there in the moment.
Except the Dish is better than a TV channel. I don't have to find the segments when they air at a scheduled time, because they are presented in a column style interactive newspaper format. I can catch up on them later and scan in much the way I do a newspaper to see what I've missed that interests me. This exposes me to more topics than I would otherwise take interest in.
And I follow the Dish's conversations over time, and through endless chains of links out into the rest of the world. I'm automatically linked into deeper or different information. Neither magazines nor TV provide that very well. Linking is like the bibliography of the web, and with the web I finally find a bibliography practical and functional in my everyday life.
Another:
I tried to write something profound to mark your 10th anniversary. Although I disagree with you regularly, you have posted a few of my emails and are my favorite blog. Out of all this material, however, the one thing I keep coming back to is your definition of the word “hubris” (= the smell of one's own farts). So I hope you take this as a compliment: I can’t fart without thinking of you.
Another:
It's very odd to wax sentimental about someone I've never actually met, but I'll give it a go.
[Re-posted from last night] Chris, Patrick and Zoe have asked many of my fellow bloggers out there to “toast or roast” the Dish’s tenth anniversary tomorrow. And it is traditional to respond to such a chorus with some brief remarks. Because I am an easily embarrassed type and actually not very comfortable at parties, I … Continue reading The View From My Window 2000 – 2010
Yes, we changed it to celebrate the Dish's tenth consecutive year of daily blogging. (It's by the cartoon genius, Terry Colon.) I don't remember to be honest the precise day I started this insane enterprise – but I do remember blogging the 2000 conventions. To be on the safe side, we picked 10/10/10 as our … Continue reading The New Dish Banner: Our Tenth Anniversary
Alex Massie directs me to an important historical document on the question of squirrels, a subject the beagles care a great deal more about than habeas corpus. In fact, habeas corpus means an entirely different thing to beagles with respect to squirrels. It’s a debate in the House of Lords about the fate of the … Continue reading Squirrels! Ctd.
