Friday! Via Paul Constant, who reports some other cinematic processed cheese product as well.
DougJ bait! Some NPR-sponsored hipster idiot offers the worst possible excuse for the Park Slope Brooklyn Baby Expo, aka “The Sippy Cup 1%“:
… It’s easy to feel like a sucker once you realize that nearly every dollar you’ve paid over the commodity price is probably wasted. But the process also has enormous benefits for all consumers. Occasionally companies seeking differentiation come up with safety features that are eventually adopted by government regulation and mandated for all competitors. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, for instance, has been testing Safety 1st’s Air Protect+ system, along with other car seats that claim to offer special protection from side-impact crashes. If a particular company’s safety technology proves effective, eventually every car-seat maker will be required to include it, and side-impact protection will go from a premium feature to part of the basic commodity…
Cheesecake! A New Yorker columnist attempts to find deeper sociopolitical meaning in Edward Snowden’s girlfriend’s elaborate “world-traveling, pole-dancing superhero” selfies:
… LsJourney is an example—if a wackily theatrical one—of the type of fascinated self-exposure that many people engage in every day. In one of the hundreds of self-portraits that Mills posted on her blog, she stands just to the right of the center of the frame, wearing black lace underwear and a black bra, holding herself tight in a gesture of despondency, a bright yellow Forever 21 bag covering her face in a way that unfortunately recalls the infamous photos of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. In another underwear-clad photo (zebra-patterned this time), she sits on a chair, legs akimbo, staring into the camera with a dire expression. On one foot, she wears a hiking boot, on the other a high-heeled shoe (“wild + refined #selfportrait,” she calls it). In yet another, she’s holding herself in the air, one hand on a metal pole, above the heads of a bride and groom. Her pink tutu hovers over them….
(Yes, there are pics at the link. Just be sure to wash your hands afterwards, perv.)
And John Cole, among others, now has one more reason to hate John Boehner.
What other showy disasters-in-the-making are on tap for the end of a showily disastrous week?
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