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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 08:03:10 PM EST
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If you haven't seen Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution, it's pretty good and a new episode is on ABC tonight.

There's another right-wing group making threats today. New York's top appeals court limited the scope of searches today -- nor more getting a search warrant for a place and searching everyone in it. The changes in airline screening seem like a step in the right direction, but it would be better if the watch lists were scrubbed.

What's on your agenda this weekend? What are you finding interesting? This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    Agenda? (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by SOS on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 09:24:05 PM EST
    Continue being responsible for everything while everyone else goofs off for the weekend.

    Interesting response to the newly signed HIR (none / 0) (#1)
    by Inspector Gadget on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 08:08:33 PM EST
    from one provider of medical services in Florida.

    The Philadelphia Eagles (none / 0) (#2)
    by Makarov on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 08:46:02 PM EST
    made the worst trade in franchise history, today.

    The Eagles gave up veteran cornerback Sheldon Brown and linebacker Chris Gocong to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for bench warming LB Alex Hall and picks in the 4th and 5th round of this month's draft.

    Even in the fantasy world where Gocong (who will likely start at OLB in a 3-4 system) and Hall are a good, even stephen trade, it means Sheldon Brown was worth only 4th and 5th round picks. Sheldon, alone, should have been worth a second round.

    While Brown didn't have the 9 interceptions Asante Samuel, his teammate on the other side of the field, had in 2009, Brown was a solid cover corner and tackler. I believe he didn't give up a single passing TD all season.

    The Philadelphia Eagles may as well go ahead and deal Donovan McNabb now, because it's clear we're flying into a 'rebuilding' holding pattern.

    It may finally be OK to wear socks with sandals. (none / 0) (#4)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 10:33:08 PM EST
    If you missed the memo, here it is. (Heads up, it's via HuffPo.)

    But not black socks. (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Cream City on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 12:26:47 AM EST
    Please, not black socks.

    There must, simply must, be some standards.

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    NO!!!!!!!!!!!! That can't be! (none / 0) (#5)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 10:56:56 PM EST
    That was the one absolute sign we had that the person with the socks on was a Yankee tourist!

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    Next we will learn it is ok to wear (none / 0) (#6)
    by oculus on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 11:07:29 PM EST
    white shoes after Labor Day.

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    Nope. It's a Washington State staple (none / 0) (#7)
    by shoephone on Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 11:15:14 PM EST
    It's an embarassing longtime fashion trend here. I hate it!

    A little funnier is the number of people who roll out of bed and head down the block to their neighborhood coffee spot, still wearing their pajamas and slippers. Not kidding.

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    as a fellow northwesterner (none / 0) (#11)
    by ZtoA on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 12:36:24 AM EST
    I have to ask "what's wrong with that??". The coffee spot is the appropriate place for flannel casuals. I absolutely draw the line at the Opera. I really hate to see people in casual clothes - including flannel shirts - at the opera.  

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    I have to be (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by ZtoA on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 12:41:58 AM EST
    'up in Seattle' for work in September so you may see me in my PJs and my new Jimmy Choos for early morning coffee. Hopefully I'll be reading the NYT on my IPad.  :)

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    I lived in the Seattle area for 4 years (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 09:00:30 AM EST
    and never got use to bumbershoots sprouting everywhere not to mention green tomato summers,

    But coffee while surrounded by people in their PJ's in a coffee house?

    No one deserves that.

    lol

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    Most opera companies are in such severe (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by oculus on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 11:12:06 AM EST
    financial distress, with aged subscription base, I doubt they care what people wear if only they buy tickets.

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    I used to have a friend who took me (none / 0) (#23)
    by observed on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 07:18:22 PM EST
    to the Seattle Opera. One time he got tickets from a symphony member to a benefit for the opera.
    I certainly wasn't that dressed up.
    What was funny was having Speight Jenkins come over and fawn. I"m sure he recognized my face, but I learned later that this was a $1000/plate sandwich lunch for most of the people there.


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    A friend and I found ouself ushered to the (none / 0) (#24)
    by oculus on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 07:58:42 PM EST
    front row at the Mainly Mozart festival here years ago.  Seats reserved for biiiiiig donors.  Never did figure that one out.  Conductor looked at us curiously.

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    Hey, I found the Afpak post (none / 0) (#25)
    by observed on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 08:49:28 PM EST
    I was referring to ( I think).

    BTD on Obama and Afpak

    I considered that to be the post he had promised. He laid out his reasoning pretty clearly.

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    Thanks very much. (none / 0) (#26)
    by oculus on Sun Apr 04, 2010 at 01:39:45 AM EST


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    Hey, check out the 2/18 post (none / 0) (#27)
    by observed on Sun Apr 04, 2010 at 09:09:38 AM EST
    on Obama vs. Feingold on Afghanistan.
    Read "dissenter's" comments on women.
    They are blood curling, and very believable.


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    I don't think that is what BTD sd. he (none / 0) (#28)
    by oculus on Sun Apr 04, 2010 at 12:57:57 PM EST
    was pondering and would post.  

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    Btw, it's a Depression Era look (none / 0) (#13)
    by Cream City on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 12:51:23 AM EST
    interestingly, considering the economy.

    I just was reviewing many photos from the '30s and noticed the common combo of socks -- not hose, so costly then (and now, the way they can run) -- with sandals, as well as socks with oxfords, for women.  Same very baggy, fall-around-your-ankles socks, too.

    Prediction: Get ready for the '40s look.  I've already seen saddleshoes in stores.  Unpack your mother's sweater sets and pearls, and practice setting your hair in a perfect pageboy cut.  

    That means the feminine hygiene industry will have to go retro, too, because my mother told me the secret of how to set your hair in a perfect pageboy -- and it requires a feminine hygiene product no longer designed as it was.  I say no more.

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    Yay! Saddle oxfords! (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Ellie on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 01:26:13 AM EST
    I love the women's suits too. Roz Russell, Kate Hepburn ... Bring. It. On!

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    The Folded Paper (none / 0) (#9)
    by squeaky on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 12:22:36 AM EST
    Found on the bottom of a box?

    Mr. Cooley's filing says that his current deputy in charge of the case, David Walgren, only weeks ago discovered those notes among "folded papers on the bottom" of some boxes, and promptly gave them to the Polanski lawyers after deciphering them with Mr. Doyle's help in late February.

    NYT

    I'm deleting Oculus comment and reposting (none / 0) (#17)
    by Jeralyn on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 01:44:49 AM EST
    with a correct link. Her's went to a biased comment with false info rather than the article, which is here.

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    Please explain. As I recall, I merely (none / 0) (#20)
    by oculus on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 11:14:15 AM EST
    provided a link re DCA's rejection of prosecution's request to file documents under seal.

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    Merely? (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by squeaky on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 11:29:15 AM EST
    Just the facts....  lol

    It must be that some of your comments are so dry that even you do not notice that they are extremely opinionated and often vicious in nature.

    But I guess that system gets you off the hook for appearing intentionally mean, lol.

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    Vomexting (none / 0) (#14)
    by Ellie on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 01:13:26 AM EST
    I hereby give Husb permission to mess around with two lifeforms if he promises never to use this new word in pop culture in my presence:

    Golf superstar Woods and TV celebrity James, who is married to Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, have seen their lives unravel amid revelations of cheating on their spouses, in part by arranging liaisons via text messages.

    Their affairs have spawned a new word in pop culture, chexting, and raised the question of whether it really is cheating on a spouse. The experts say, you bet it is.

    This odious "news" habit of hooking every story possible to the latest brain clutter ... just, please, make it stop.

    This is just downright weird:

    It is instant gratification and contact, but for those who have a hard time staying faithful, texting has become medium to facilitate their cheating. [...] [Me: as opposed to -- what? -- other means of communication, like saucy notes delivered by a liveried go-between using a horse-drawn coach?]

    Part of the allure, [Los Angeles family law attorney Stacy D. Phillips] says, is that the "chext" is not finished when both parties stop sending messages. "The person can keep re-reading the texts throughout the day, getting titillated all over again," she said.

    Really? Yowzah, it's that hot?

    But no sweet scent of (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by caseyOR on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 01:37:21 AM EST
    the secret lover. I prefer my illicit communiques, or would if I had any, to come bearing the sweet allure of the forbidden one's perfume. Can't get that with a text.

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    Experts? (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by ruffian on Sat Apr 03, 2010 at 01:40:11 PM EST
    Shouldn't those be chextperts?

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