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Whole Foods meant ‘no disrespect’ by using Obama to sell chicken
A spokesperson for Whole Foods says that a store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has taken down an advertisement that featured Barack Obama’s likeness, but insisted the company meant “no disrespect” by using the nation’s first African-American president to sell chicken. Upper West Side resident Woody Henderson contacted WNBC after…
‘Sir, would you like your food poisoned or non-poisoned?’
Why is that cashier wearing gloves? That nice young fellow with the tattoo on his forearm and the earring; that smiling, “Hi how are you today, beautiful day out, I like your shirt” cashier—why is he wearing gloves as he handles my groceries? The others aren’t wearing gloves. I ask him…
The problem, she is complex
Well, that turned in to quite the thread. I think that one of the reasons that threads about the food and health problems in our country blow up, here and elsewhere, is that the situation is pretty complicated and it’s easy for people to stake out something they’ve observed about…
Actually, cooking is hard (and I smell sexism in claiming otherwise)
Jamelle Bouie, who is kicking ass guest-blogging for Matt Y., posted yesterday about a remarkable study done at the University of Washington that showed that obesity was 10 times higher among the customers are a low-end supermarket than the ones at the high end Whole Foods. To put that in…
The Whole Foods Healthcare Plan: Now With 80% More Conspicuously Consuming White People
The CEO of Whole Foods has a plan to reform health care. Not by increasing communist-style government control of healthcare OMGWTFBBQ, but instead by taking simple, common sense steps. Mainly, having every retailer on Earth become Whole Foods. While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs…
A Day In The Life Of A Feminist
Courtney has posted a “day in the life of a feminist” post to give the world an idea of what being a feminist looks like on the micro level. I thought this was a valuable public service, so I thought I’d do the same thing here. So here’s a typical…
Anti-vaccination = anti-feminist?
Well, not intentionally, but there is a reason to think that anti-vaccination ideologists could hurt women more than men, amongst other damage that they can do. I finally had a chance to listen to a recent “This American Life” that dealt with, amongst other things, an outbreak of the measles…
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