Friday, April 10, 2009

Pitts like donuts, too

Brad Pitt takes kids for donuts. Health czar not amused:

http://www.starmagazine.com/brad_pitt_kids_dunkin_donuts/news/15460

Nice kid

Are donuts ever bad? "They taste so sweet."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-odd-remorsefulrob,0,5321322.story

How do we know the following crook is a hard core scumbag? He robs a donut store and is described as "slim." Jerk:

http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/donuts_1262462___article.html/dunkin_schenectady.html

Monday, April 6, 2009

Donuts in the news. Again. Do they ever really leave it?

Now why wasn't this a good idea?
http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/news-krispy-kreme-retracts-pro-choice-obama-donuts

Is not "freedom of choice" also a marketing pitch (I seem to remember BK using it...), and doesn't business always trump more abstract ideology, whether it should or not?

This guy says it better I suppose. His capstone phrase is "And conservatives wonder why their movement is in trouble?" and he notes "freedom of choice" has long been a call of conservative movements.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1030

And another professor, having done due research, is all over the connection of doughnuts and politics:
http://www.smcm.edu/rivergazette/decjan09/mtwaincolumn.html