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You are here: Home / Oh Fer Fuck’s Sake NYT

Oh Fer Fuck’s Sake NYT

by John Cole|  April 24, 20155:38 pm| 97 Comments

This post is in: Our Failed Political Establishment

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Actual line from a story about Jeb Bush and weight loss:

The rigid abstemiousness runs the risk of putting him at a dietary distance from an American electorate that still binges on carbohydrates and, after eight years of a tea-sipping president, craves a relatable eater-in-chief.

Just come out and call Obama a pussy, you jackass. If anyone knows what middle America craves, it’s someone who casually uses the word abstemiousness.

I feel like the Times is actively trying to get me to cancel my subscription.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    I recently thought about making a better effort to read the NYT, but I think I’ll wait until after the 2016 election.

  2. 2.

    chopper

    April 24, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    you know who sipped tea? sun tzu. a dude who literally wrote the book on kicking men’s asses.

  3. 3.

    Rex Tremendae

    April 24, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    The article also mentions (a) a young boy whose favorite pizza is Little Caesar’s and (b) that Paleo diet people don’t drink wine. The child has plenty of years to learn to love good pizza, but the Paleos sound hopeless.

  4. 4.

    chopper

    April 24, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    I’m sure El Jebe’s domestic and foreign policy can also be described as ‘paleo’. at least he’s consistent.

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    April 24, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @chopper:

    you know who sipped tea? sun tzu.

    Also, too, Winston Churchill, who the Republicans apparently worship almost as much as Reagan. You know who there’s no particular evidence of being a tea sipper? Barack Obama. This isn’t meant as any kind of defense of Obama’s drinking habits as much as a criticism of the author’s (and NYT’s) fact checking. [Edit: retracted]

  6. 6.

    fledermaus

    April 24, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    It always amazes me how much the political pundits believe most voters decide based on what sort of food the candidate eats. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone real even mention it.

  7. 7.

    FlipYrWhig

    April 24, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    Remember how much the NYT loved the paunchy physique and other indulgences of Bill Clinton? “Quite relatable,” they consistently said. And oh, how they lit into the exercise obsessions of George Dubya Bush, an affectation to which the Common Man simply could not relate. Right, remember that?

  8. 8.

    balconesfault

    April 24, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    Barbaro is truly gifted. From his piece on Romney’s farewell speech to his campaign staff after the 2012 election:

    He marveled at the president’s ability to turn out voters, at times by using strategies that had maligned him.

    This written without a trace of irony.

  9. 9.

    chopper

    April 24, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    I wonder if Obama drives a Volvo? somebody needs to check on this.

  10. 10.

    Hal

    April 24, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    Ugh. Paleo dieters. Does this mean 18 months of Jeb talking about cross fit?

  11. 11.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    @chopper: Also Miyamoto Musashi, who wrote another such book.

  12. 12.

    donovong

    April 24, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    i cancelled my subscription today and let them know it was because of their new swift boating campaign against Hillary. Fuckers.

  13. 13.

    jl

    April 24, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    I dunno. Maybe the NYT is indicating that its hard hitting real important facty reporting will head in the direction of dithering over whether Jeb! is really in the Mainstream of America, fress-wise.

    They are in the tank for Christie? No, can’t be that: Christie had belly band surgery, though on the other hand, his first glance ‘gestalt’ still fits into mainstream perfectly.

    Walker gobble down junk food?

    In conclusion, our miserably failed corporate media experiment is reaching new lows as the citizens read about weirdo back room deals between big news organizations and sketchy right wing BS artists, and read this blather, and they have to practice Kremlinology on their own national affairs press.

    The likes of Dowd and Brooks are probably delighted by it all, though.

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    April 24, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    @fledermaus:

    It always amazes me how much the political pundits believe most voters decide based on what sort of food the candidate eats.

    It’s not exactly about their food choices. It’s about whether they’re elitists or ordinary people, and a disturbing number of people actually do care about that. If the candidate is actually a member of the elite, they can try to portray themselves as being an ordinary person by doing things ordinary people imagine themselves doing: eating burgers, watching football, mowing the lawn, etc. And if they’re not a member of the elite, they can be portrayed as being one by showing them doing something that seems kind of elitist: eating weird food (or not getting “ordinary people” food), participating in weird sports, not knowing about everyday things, etc.

  15. 15.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 24, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    At least it’s not a latte.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    April 24, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    @donovong: Good for you.

  17. 17.

    chopper

    April 24, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    looking at pictures of Jeb!, I’d assume his wife has been sneaking gobs of cookie dough into his steaks.

  18. 18.

    jl

    April 24, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    OK, i looked at the story. It has all the breathless teen crush excitement of a tweener gazing in rapture at new candid Justin Bieber (or whoever it is now) pics.

    Definitely pro-Bush. We are lucky they don’t have better material.

  19. 19.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    We had my mom’s memorial service today. Now we’re home and thus exposed to Fox. I thought i would check in quickly to let you know that the Republicans are very, very worried about the peasantry waking up and realizing they’re being screwed. On a show called “The Five,” a title which seemed to refer to the collective IQ of the panelists, they spent nearly the entire show indignantly refuting the very idea of inequality. The trump argument was that a 50-inch plasma TV used to cost 20K and now cost 1K and therefore there’s no inequality. That was the best the Five could do.

    Now, if more Democrats will stop whoring for Wall Street, they can jump on this awakening-peasant bandwagon and maybe we can see some changes made. The Republicans are going with ” Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” so the Democrats have a golden opportunity.

  20. 20.

    srv

    April 24, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    When is he going to have a bender with Noonan?

  21. 21.

    the Conster

    April 24, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    @jl:

    you should see his twitter feed. It’s embarrassing how middle school it is.

    ETA: apologies to middle schoolers.

  22. 22.

    Emma

    April 24, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    People still have subscriptions to the New York Times?

    May I suggest, for straight news, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation-news/
    For not-insane conservatives, http://www.ft.com/home/uk
    For liberal to the point of making me reach for a sharp object, http://www.ft.com/home/uk
    For good Middle East coverage,plus other good stuff, http://www.aljazeera.com/

    Most big national papers now have at least an English page. If you want to practice your half-forgotten foreign language of choice, have at it.

    I’m sure many of you have other suggestions. Why bother with the paper of record for the 1%?

  23. 23.

    Emma

    April 24, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    Moderation? For some links to news sites?

  24. 24.

    Redshift

    April 24, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    Obviously, Americans don’t “crave” a president they elected twice by large margins. Don’t worry your pretty little head about it, pundit knows best.

  25. 25.

    Mike Furlan

    April 24, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    By now no one should be reading the Times for anything other than entertainment purposes, recipes, coverage of the arts, and real estate porn. They will be wrong on every substantive issue, if they don’t fail to cover it.

  26. 26.

    WereBear

    April 24, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    Ladies and gentlemen: our Paper of Record.

    So we’ve devolved from “have a beer with the guy” to “you could gorge on doughnuts with him.”

  27. 27.

    JMG

    April 24, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    Almost all politicians are “normal” in their cultural preferences to begin with. They all like sports, middlebrow music of various genres, will go see “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” etc. It’s sort of a natural selection process. If you’re too different from most folks, the idea of going out and seeking their approval every few years doesn’t seem like much fun.
    Times sure have changed though. Look at JFK, and how a big part of his highly favorable public image was that he had serious egghead tendencies (he didn’t). He gave a famous White House dinner for all American Nobel laureates. Imagine the reaction if Obama did that. Maureen Dowd would write about it twice a week forever.

  28. 28.

    WereBear

    April 24, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    @Rex Tremendae: Paleo diet people don’t drink wine

    Aaaaaand they’ve got their facts wrong.

  29. 29.

    Germy Shoemangler

    April 24, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    I don’t care if the NYTimes writes about Jeb’s diet. What got my goat was the crack about the electorate craving a more relatable president. The reporter’s brains are clearly popcorn soaked in urine.

    As I said in an earlier thread, I visited the twitter page of the reporter, and saw that he retweeted a rather brilliant condemnation of his prose:

    https://twitter.com/BostonSnob/status/591629015372406784

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    April 24, 2015 at 6:08 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Remember how much the NYT loved the paunchy physique and other indulgences of Bill Clinton? “

    Exactly. I even remember a SNL skit with Darrell Hammond’s Bill Clinton loading up on junk food.

    So,does all this mean that the NYT is ready to throw its support behind Chris Christie?

  31. 31.

    Emma

    April 24, 2015 at 6:08 pm

    @WereBear: Some of their recipes are pretty good, though.Doesn’t keep me off my wine, but hey.

  32. 32.

    Mike J

    April 24, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    @Emma:

    Moderation? For some links to news sites?

    Three links, including any @reply, is the limit.

  33. 33.

    Aleta

    April 24, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    Such a weird week. Frat boys insulting wounded vets, and now Marines are vowing to give them a pounding. A herd of buffalo escape in NYS and get gunned down by hired hunters. And some of the same Georgia conservatives who believe Georgia law now allows gun carry at technical schools and colleges are cheering on a ‘manhunt’ for a black college student for having a gun in his backpack, after he gave an interview during a demonstration against racism. The buffalo slaughter seems like a bad bad omen. I mean, if you were Hunter S. Thompson. Which I wish someone was right now.

  34. 34.

    Turgidson

    April 24, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    i like this @BostonSnob fellow already.

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    April 24, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    @Hal: If he starts pushing a road-grader tire up a hill I’m personally kicking him the balls, no matter what.

  36. 36.

    Southern Beale

    April 24, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Media narratives WILL NOT DIE.

    Meanwhile, we’ve got THIS shit going on.

  37. 37.

    Violet

    April 24, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Did Obama’s “mom jeans” make the article as well?

    Jeb Bush looks unhealthy to me. Weight loss or not, he doesn’t look well.

  38. 38.

    RaflW

    April 24, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    I feel like the Times is actively trying to get me to cancel my subscription.

    If it weren’t for Krugman, I’d have cancelled already. Hanging on by a thread. I also do think that the more we abandon subscribing to papers like the Times, the worse our overall journalism will get. Quitting the Times won’t actually teach them anything, and no other traditional media outlet is interested in bettering itself.

    We’re kinda screwed. But then, that is not a news flash.

  39. 39.

    the Conster

    April 24, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    @Turgidson:

    His twitter handle quote is great: “I laugh at rubes and want the South to secede”.

    He goes after fucktards but good, too, and 140 characters is his best and highest use. my kinda people.

  40. 40.

    Emma

    April 24, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    @Mike J: Crud. Thanks for letting me know. It was just links to McClatchy, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera.

  41. 41.

    Betty Cracker

    April 24, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    @Pogonip: Condolences on the loss of your mom.

    Regarding the awakening peasantry, HRC’s recent campaign trail utterances seem to indicate she’s seen that memo. We can argue all night whether or not she’s the ideal vessel to make the wealth inequality case, but it’s encouraging that she seems to know that’s issue #1, as does Mr. O’Malley.

  42. 42.

    RSA

    April 24, 2015 at 6:22 pm

    If anyone knows what middle America craves, it’s someone who casually uses the word abstemiousness.

    I’ll bet more people know “abstemious” for having all the vowels in alphabetical order than know what it means.

  43. 43.

    Zinsky

    April 24, 2015 at 6:22 pm

    We should be more concerned about handing over the reins of power to another member of the most corrupt, seditious family in American political history than what the fat fuck eats. A grandfather that worked secretly to overthrow a sitting President, a father who secretly sold stolen arms to Iran and worked to have Americans held captive longer than they needed to be held to get elected and a brother who started a war under false pretenses should disqualify this piece of human filth from ever holding elected office. Not to mention the fact this fat fuck helped overthrew the will of the people to get his idiot brother elected, who clearly lost the presidential election.

  44. 44.

    Benw

    April 24, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    Cancelled my subscription years ago; I hoard my 10 free articles per month to read Krugman and occasionally Chuck Blow or Collins; no regrets.

  45. 45.

    Howard Beale IV

    April 24, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    @Roger Moore: And let’s not forget that Churchill was a noted cigar smoker-so much so that a an entire class of cigar was named after him (7″ long with a 47-49 ring)

  46. 46.

    bobbo

    April 24, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    Obama’s not a pussy, he’s a starlet. You need to keep your MoDo thesaurus handy.

  47. 47.

    Turgidson

    April 24, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    @Zinsky:

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!

  48. 48.

    gogol's wife

    April 24, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    I was behind in my reading of the NYT, so didn’t know what you all were talking about with the Hillary Clinton stuff, and just now I turned to the continuation of the article from the front page, and I couldn’t believe the overkill! Two full pages on the inside! They are really trying to smother her campaign in the cradle. It’s so blatant as almost to be amusing.

  49. 49.

    Mike in NC

    April 24, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    Wasn’t aware that JEB! was dieting, because recent (?) photos made him pretty hard to distinguish from Chris Christie. The big money boys in the GOP are going to back either Walker or Bush; everything else is just 24/7 media masturbation over a lame roster of vanity campaigns.

  50. 50.

    Aleta

    April 24, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    (risking) distance from an American electorate that still binges on carbohydrates

    That is such deceptive hyperbole. It’s a cunning trick to help Jeb carry CA, MA, CT and NY.

  51. 51.

    Mandalay

    April 24, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    From the author’s NYT bio:

    …he interviewed Mr. Romney’s hair stylist, revealing the secrets behind the candidate’s meticulous mane.

    In New York, where he is based, Mr. Barbaro has chronicled Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s obsession with muscle cars, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn’s relationship with her father and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s weekend getaways to Bermuda

    A bio to die for, but not in a good way.

  52. 52.

    Cacti

    April 24, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    You mean people still actually pay for the New York Times?

    Huh.

  53. 53.

    Mike J

    April 24, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    @Benw:

    I hoard my 10 free articles per month to read Krugman and occasionally Chuck Blow or Collins; no regrets.

    Tell your browser to a) not accept cookies[1] and b) not run javascript[2]. Read the Times as much as you can stomach.

    [1] The cookie monster add on for firefox lets you allow cookies for the few sites that need it that you want to allow, while silently blocking them for everything else.

    [2] noscript add on for firtefox lets you allow javascript for the few sites that need it that you want to allow, while silently blocking it for everything else.

  54. 54.

    Mandalay

    April 24, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    It’s so blatant as almost to be amusing.

    The very first sentence in the very first entry in NYT’s pick of the reader comments:

    What this article shows is that Jeb has tremendous will power. And he clearly hungers after the presidency.

    It’s certainly blatant, but I’m not sure it’s amusing.

  55. 55.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 24, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    @trollhattan: I would drive to wherever you are just to watch that in person

  56. 56.

    Violet

    April 24, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Wasn’t aware that JEB! was dieting, because recent (?) photos made him pretty hard to distinguish from Chris Christie.

    I think you haven’t seen really recently photos then. He’s definitely lost weight. He looks kind of unhealthy. It’s obvious he’s thinner but it doesn’t look like a healthy thinner.

  57. 57.

    Violet

    April 24, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    From the article:

    So far, Mr. Bush has shown remarkable fidelity to the diet, inspired by the simple ingredients available to our Paleolithic ancestors, losing around 30 pounds since December, according to envious friends and close observers.

    Thirty pounds since December? No wonder he looks kind of gray. That kind of rapid weight loss isn’t always healthy.

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 24, 2015 at 6:49 pm

    @chopper:

    He also had a favorite chicken.

    @Mike Furlan:

    I still read their obituaries. They write good obits.

  59. 59.

    Karen

    April 24, 2015 at 6:49 pm

    I didn’t know that the GOP owned the NY Times. I guess the Washington Times, Daily News, NY Post and WSJ wasn’t enough for them.

    Does anyone but me find it amusing that these millionaires are trying to show they’re just like regular folk when the money backing them are from billionaires who want them in office to benefit only billionaires and strip funding from those “regular folks?” And those regular folks would offer these millionaires the moon if it meant that a brown person wouldn’t live next door to them.

  60. 60.

    Ruckus

    April 24, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    @Violet:
    Jeb doesn’t look well to me either. Oh you meant physically well. Come to think of it either way works.

  61. 61.

    jl

    April 24, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    @Mandalay:

    ” It’s certainly blatant, but I’m not sure it’s amusing. ”

    I think it is a mildly amusing self-parody.
    Though The Onion would have thought up some novelty to make it better, probably.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 24, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @JMG:

    [JFK] gave a famous White House dinner for all American Nobel laureates.

    If I remember rightly, he said the gathering was something like (paraphrasing) “the greatest collection of brainpower in this building since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

    /heading off to find the real quote and see how close I came

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I still read their obituaries. They write good obits.

    Possibly the only reason to read the Daily Telegraph.

  64. 64.

    Seanly

    April 24, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    I consider myself fairly well educated and am the product of two English professors & I have no idea WTF “abstemiousness” means. I do know that the sentence is one of the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 24, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Found it. It was almost exactly 53 years ago (April 29, 1962) and the line was: think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 24, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yes, I don’t check the Telegraph all that often, but when I do it’s usually because some British notoriety has died and I can count on a well-written obit. They have great cryptic crossword puzzles, too, I’ll give them that.

  67. 67.

    muddy

    April 24, 2015 at 7:04 pm

    @Mike J: You can always access the articles through Google. Start the search string with “nytimes” and then a couple of words from the headline. Clickety-do-dah, no need for add-ons.

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 24, 2015 at 7:06 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    Is there anything, anything, that these people won’t monetize? I don’t even know what emotions to have any more: anger, disgust, sadness don’t begin to approach the way these … I can’t say “people” again … make me feel.

    Pisses me off when I discover I don’t even have a vocabulary available to comment on these … whateverthefucktheyare.

  69. 69.

    debbie

    April 24, 2015 at 7:07 pm

    @Mike J:

    You also can just delete all nytimes cookies and start over.

  70. 70.

    muddy

    April 24, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    @jl:

    Christie had belly band surgery, though on the other hand, his first glance ‘gestalt’ still fits into mainstream perfectly.

    For how long it has been he doesn’t seem to have lost that much weight.

    Weight loss or not, he doesn’t look well.

    @Violet: As to JEB, he looks like his mean mother, so no amount of dieting is going to fix that.

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 24, 2015 at 7:11 pm

    @RSA:

    I’ll bet more people know “abstemious” for having all the vowels in alphabetical order than know what it means.

    As does “facetious.” I believe that’s the only other English word that does. If you want the “and sometimes Y” in there, you have “abstemiously” and “facetiously.”

  72. 72.

    John Revolta

    April 24, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    Wasn’t everybody ragging on Obama last year for eating cheeseburgers?
    What kind of tea do they serve at the Shake Shack?

  73. 73.

    WereBear

    April 24, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    @Pogonip: I’m so sorry for your loss.

  74. 74.

    debbie

    April 24, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    @srv:

    And when she’s cradling his shoe, will it be a slip-on?

  75. 75.

    Mike Furlan

    April 24, 2015 at 7:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Good point.

  76. 76.

    Mike Furlan

    April 24, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    @Cacti: I have the weekend dead tree version delivered.

  77. 77.

    Turgidson

    April 24, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    @John Revolta:

    Wasn’t everybody ragging on Obama

    Yes. The unreformed junior high clique we refer to as the Village, perpetually furious at being scorned by Obama long ago, rags on him over anything, even if it directly contradicts the thing they ragged on him for the previous day.

  78. 78.

    catclub

    April 24, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    rigid abstemiousness

    Like Mormons who drink neither alcoholic nor caffeinated beverages? They brought that up ALL THE TIME with Romney.

  79. 79.

    catclub

    April 24, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: facetious ..ly.

  80. 80.

    MomSense

    April 24, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    For fun I read the personal ads in the London Review of Books.

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    April 24, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    @Pogonip: So sorry to hear about your mom, Pogonip.

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 24, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    @Pogonip: My condolences.

  83. 83.

    Cain

    April 24, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    I’m pretty sure that Obama can drink JBush under the table. Probably had a lot more practice drinking over the past 7 years.

  84. 84.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    Thanks for the condolences, folks. She actually died the day after Thanksgiving, but since most of the mourners were over 70 we held the memorial service in the spring so they wouldn’t have to contend with winter.

  85. 85.

    WaterGirl

    April 24, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    @Pogonip: It was kind of you guys to have the service nearly 5 months later to accommodate the older folks. I hope that didn’t make it too tough on you.

  86. 86.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: No, not at all; she had requested cremation, so there was no hurry.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    April 24, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @Pogonip: I was thinking more of the emotional side of things than the practical side. In any case, glad to know it wasn’t as tough as I feared it might have been for you.

  88. 88.

    Pogonip

    April 24, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thank you! She’d been failing for a long time so we were well prepared.

  89. 89.

    PaulW

    April 24, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    Go ahead and cancel your subscription to the Times. They’re not worth it.

  90. 90.

    HinTN

    April 24, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    “Cancel my subscription to the resurrection,
    Send my credentials to the house of detention…”

  91. 91.

    NotoriousJRT

    April 24, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    I crave a political scene with no Bushes in power or seeking power or even thinking about seeking power.

  92. 92.

    jonas

    April 24, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    @Violet:

    That kind of rapid weight loss isn’t always healthy.

    Once you’re over 45 or so and lose a significant amount of weight, it really shows — your skin’s not as elastic as it used to be and it just ages you. I remember being shocked at seeing Drew Carey a few years ago after he shed 50-60 lbs. and it aged him 10 years easy.

    ETA — I don’t mean of course that people aren’t better off losing weight if it’s a problem. But beyond a certain age, it’s just going to show more in your face and elsewhere.

  93. 93.

    Cervantes

    April 24, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    someone who casually uses the word abstemiousness

    How can you tell it’s a casual use in this case?

  94. 94.

    shortstop

    April 24, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    This is one of those perfectly crafted little Cole posts that just makes my day.

  95. 95.

    shortstop

    April 24, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    @Violet: In general, two pounds a week is considered safe and healthy. Beyond that you’re in danger of losing muscle.

  96. 96.

    fuckwit

    April 25, 2015 at 1:42 am

    That paper sucks balls.

    Also, “tea sipping” is stupid and incorrect. They don’t even fact check their snark anymore?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Honey_Ale

    For the fucking fuck of fuck’s sake. God damn. Obama brews his own fucking beer, like a proper microbrew beer geek, and the goddamned New York Times calls him a tea-totaler.

  97. 97.

    blueskies

    April 25, 2015 at 9:54 am

    Wait — what? You subscribe?

    I didn’t know people still did that.

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