Hi pups! Time to ride the Cazy Train!

Highlights, please, for those on slow dialup connections?

to the happy house!

hey lisa

All aboooooard Teh Crazy Twain!
Hi, Lisa
Hi, Pups

FunnyWheelieDiva

Beck turns the words of various Obama “czars” in robot voices..with..lots..of ellipses…so…the phrases…may not…be 100% in ….context…

teh internets–both of them are slooooow 2nite

That sounds more like standard operating procedure for a FOX clown.

they are lisa – those forking nsa arseholes musta parked their forking van on the tubes again

i’ll try to slip them some hot ‘chocolate’ (made with exlax) to get them to *ahem* move

Any news on the wild fires, Lisa?

How many more sponsors does Beck have to lose before he’s off the air? And what are their phone numbers, and what do we say when we call?

The tubes need Drano.

My son ate an entire box of chocolate exlax at my parents house when he was 2. Got him to poison control center, did their best to pump his stomach. Had one projectile vomit, and that seemed to do the trick.

He might become the first Faux program that is commercial free.

My contractor, who cures average plumbing problems, tells me Draino is politically incorrect, and I should never use it. He’s got some organic alternative, which I don’t remember the name of. So let’s get with the plan. If the intertoobz are clogged, we need to use a politically correct, organic, cleanser.

twill be where faux dumps all its local ad sales. would be kinda appropriate to see the honey pot septic tank pump and repair commercials airing on his show

colorofchange.org

Rucker and Co. are doing great work.

I think beck has lost 36 advertisers by now..yikes. he may be trying to GET fired. PajamaTv may be his next stop dooooown the ladder.

I wish Shep Smith would defect from Fox

Thanks.

My mom was a Type-1 diabetic. Lucky her, part of the 4 percent diagnosed late in life. Anyway, she never cheated on her diet but well intentioned (albeit misguided) relatives sometimes gave her sugar-free Reeses’s cups and the like. She quickly learned to avoid that sort of thing. I don’t know if it is the fat substitute or what but they work like Ex-Lax, except a LOT faster.

Thanks for sharing. With any luck, I’ll never have need of the information you’ve provided, but who knows what life will bring!

Oh, boy, do they ever work and much faster. I can still feel the pain, when I got some from a boss at Christmas time. Never, ever, again.

Glenn has been mainlining the Koolaid and has jumped off the deep end into the Marianas Trench of crazy. Of course, it does not matter how many advertisers he loses, Rupert will keep him on to stir up the rubes even if he has none.

They’re defending Mt Wilson tonight; the buildings have been sprayed with foam, and they think they can keep it safe.
LA County Fire: http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/

The Mt Wilson webcam has been down since about 3:30pm; one of the signal boxes got overcooked. (There’s a link to a blog covering it, though.)

Probably the sugar substitute; they usually use something like mannitol, which does do that to people. (I had a friend who ate most of a package of sugar-free cookies with, um, aftereffects. I told him he shouldn’t have eaten the whole thing ….)

I couldn’t help but question the marketing decisions that led to these products. Really, is the demand for sugar/fat free chocolate so high that the fact that less than half the recommended serving causes explosive diarrhea wasn’t considered sufficient grounds to shelve the project.

OMG! My youth! I remember this song — it came out when I was in Jr. High, I think. They’re coming to take me away ….

Thanks for the update.

Wow, I was only in grade school. You must be really OLD.:)

Dr Demento played it alot — i loved dr demento!

You know how it is with addicts and their fixes. They ave to have them regardless of the consequences. A very large segment of our population is addicted to sweets generally and chocolate in particular.

I’m a newbie when it comes to healthy foods, and how modern-living-thru-chemcials ruins biological systems. I never fell for the ersatz food stuff myself (was perfectly fine with take-out of dubious healthfulness when I was a single mom working on Wall St., but when I shopped, I shopped healthy) but I knew some very intelligent people who fell for the propoganda, hook, line and sinker.

I love ice cream

Yeah, I don’t think he can lose enough advertisers to get fired as long as people are tuning in. Fox News viewers subscribe to the whole package. If they’re there for Beck they’ll stay for whatever horrible crap follows.

could have olestra in it – olestra does that to a lotta folks when they get the ‘low fat’ or ‘fat free’ chips.

I’ve been reaching for Luigi’s Italian Ice (lemon) of late.

Disclaimer: I doubt if Luigi or the ice are REALLY Italian.

Beck is more entertaining and therefore more dangerous than Savage who is such hate-filled spew!

I had a conversation today with someone who works for my new chimney cleaning service. He’s your ordinary physical worker who knows more stuff than your ordinary intellectual worker. He was a sugar addict earlier in life but his wife put him on to honey and whole grains, and it changed his life. (Conversation stemming from my mentioning my new beehive, and that another chimney cleaner is rapidly transitioning into beekeeping, now with 50 hives. Plus his boss does hydroponic ag in his basement in the winter, so all the employees have fresh fruits and vegies all winter long. Great stories.)

More to the point, it serves Murdoch’s political agenda to have Beck stirring folks up and driving the crazy. Murdoch is truly evil and one of the most destructive forces in American politics (along with Scaife).

I like Dr Bob’s which is made by a real scientist in Claremont.

It wasn’t listed on the label but it did contain some other fat substitute. Could be olestra under a different name.

I remember when they first started marketing chips with olestra. The recommended serving was 10 chips… Yeah, right. I’ve seen LOTS of people eat only 10 chips.

I rarely eat sweets, but when I do indulge I like Big Dipper, a local outfit.

I have to say it has been a battle, but using Kathleen Desmaison’s Potatoes Not Prozac life-long diet plan, I was able to ignore the big bowl of mini-candy bars at the training session today.

Also, it is harder for women. Chocolate has an effect on hormone fluctuations and it is somewhat self-medication. I’m finally firmly into menopause and have quit having those big ups and downs.

Perhaps we should all pray that Murdoch dies of brain cancer, soon.

I buy a bag of chips about once/month. I can sometimes make it last a week. With unnatural restraint.

Looks good. Don’t imagine you have as many options as you did in Chicago.

Sorry, I can’t bring myself to wish that on anybody.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Sorbitol tastes sweet but is low-calorie because it is not absorbed by the gut. Unfortunately, it is very hygro-scopic. It likes to be surrounded by lots and lots and lots of water…and pulls it from the body and into the gut. The end result is indeed ex-lax like.

Gotta watch those sugar-alcohols and other things chemically modified from sugar. Or modified fat substitute…same problem. Not absorbed, but what is it going to pull into the gut and out.

OK…that was unappetizing. Hagen-Dazs, anyone? I’ve got caramel cone…

FWDiva

I love the chocolate effect–raw cocao nibs are super helpful and healthful

I would settle for him being hauled off to jail for some of his shady financial dealings, but then I am not a Christian.

Hi everyone…. how is everyone?

Elmore should be home tomorrow evening… if the hurricane doesn’t ground his flight…..

I remember that the B side of this 45 was the same song played backward. Sounded better.

Only old as you feel, which makes me about 90.

Moderation in all things, even “low guilt” food.

Another installment of Diva’s “Take my advice, I’m not using it!”

FWDiva

Fine with me. Just riffing off some R minister who backtracked from wishing Obama was assinated to merely wishing he would die of brain cancer. Couldn’t care less what actually happens to Murdoch, but do wish it would be sooner rather than later.

Not even close, when it comes to indulgences, but it is actually a lot easier to eat healthy here. We have a lot of organic farmers, a local Whole Foods clone which buys local as much as possible and is cheaper that the brand name, and natural/free range/organic meat and dairy operations. The latter include several Hutterite colonies in the state.

Hi katy, I hope Elmore gets back on schedule. Maybe the hurricane will only provide a helpful tail wind.

I dont do artificial sweeteners at all. They taste weird and I think they are bad for one’s biochemistry. I give people stevia at my house instead of aspartame or splenda.

and I like agave nectar in coffee and tea.

woohoo and fingers and toes crossed for elmores flight

Now that I can get behind.

See my 55. Yes, I’d like it more if the legal system or the regulatory system caught up with Murdoch, but think that’s a negative probability.

agree, although I’ve heard from a few sources that the equally evil Ayles totally runs the show at Faux.
Ruckers next move should be to expand the pressure to include all Faux programming. I suspect advertisers are simply transferring their ads to other Faux shows. If these companies were boycotted, they would not stay.

Indee. and i hope the hurricane brings SoCal some rain, we need it badly to quench the fires

I don’t know if Chicago has retained it’s title as America’s Fattest City… On the other hand, it is hard to imagine how they could have lost it.

Lisa,
I just don’t do chocolate or any sweetener (sugar-free or not) anymore. It primes my desire for sweets. With my mom dying of diabetis and my father of congestive heart disease, I have to be fully aware of what I’m eating. Unfortunately, being sensitive to insulin and arachidonic acid as well as lactose intolerant and unable to drink soy milk, it makes eating right an interesting challenge. Just glad that I’ve finally found the best food combination for me.

Part of Murdoch’s success is to find people just as evil to do his dirty work for him. You are quite right about the advertisers just shifting to other Fox shows (I have read several articles on it). Unfortunately I really do not think we could mount a successful boycott campaign against Fox as a whole. Its demographic is just too big for that (not to mention obviously gullible and undiscriminating).

I’d wondered about that but PJ assured me yesterday that rain was unlikely in SoCal for months. Don’t know if hurricanes behave differently on the West Coast. Damn Coriolis effect keeps my head spinning.

Tres smart.
I agree, even splenda/sucaralose doesn’t taste right to me. I just use evaporated cane juice in my coffee or on cereal, and I have liquid stevia extract for other things. Haven’t tried agave nectar yet.

OT: repeat of Rachel, president (?) of NOW on the need for healthcare reform and the newest “healthcare reform is a plot to kill women with breast cancer” fear mongering. Her point is that women are disproportionately impacted (negatively) by the healthcare status quo.
Oh, and Dan Savage on KO was really calling spades spades and liars liars and batshit crazies bat-excrement crazies. I’m so proud. He used to write for our only truly “alternative” weekly paper here in Seattle.

FWDiva

That’s awesome you are so aware of your physiological relationship to food.

What is arachidonic acid? The only “grown up” biology I have taken is biological psychology and I don’t think we encountered that one…

What is Fox’s demographic? (Other than my son.)

Howdy folks.

How was class today, Dr. Dick?

I do hope California gets its much needed rain.

A good night to all. I’m off to eat the key to success in my diet, my just-before-bedtime bowl of Old Fashioned Oatmeal with cinnamon (no milk or sweetener). It makes sleeping at night easier and helps overcome desires for “bad” food.

Glenn Beck makes me wanna hate white culture.

Idiots.

That describes my son.

Unfortunately the rain is headed toward New Mex and Ariz. WE’ll just get wind and dry lightening, maybe a sprinking but not enough to help much, according to the news guys.

The big problem will be the 30mph winds on teh ridgetops and canyons.

What is arachidonic acid?

Psychoactive recreational drug of choice for spiders.

We went to Chile’s for dinner tonight (late classes for both of us, we’ve got to get the crock pot out). While we were dining a trio of Teabaggers wearing Teabagging Sept 1, 2009 teeshirts came in.

Mrs. Dr. BC was really incensed. I asked her how many of the three she thought were on Medicare. “At least two, maybe all three,” she said. I told her that was my read, too. Then I wondered if we should ask them if they liked their socialistic medical insurance.

She hushed me.

Angry white people, older people and sick people (that depressing ad “I though I would have to spend my entire life washing and sterilizing the same catheter..”). Weirdly many of of the health companies say they take Medicare–wait isnt Medicare socialized medicine?

Plus there are ads for like KMart, Walmart, bleach, cars, insurance, reverse mortgages etc

part of the problem with fox is their local stations usually have great local news coverage. they get fox branded as reliable in the eyes of those who don’t watch the network but do watch their local news stations.

Yay Katy!

I respectfully disagree. If even 15% of the population took part, the losses would be in the tens of millions. I’m sure Whole Foods is feeling the effects of just individual boycotts.

Owners walk when the money precedes it.

Fox local morning news in LA is UNWATCHABLE, but their late night is good.
Mommybrain-we need rain!!!

g’nite sue the red wa

Goodnight Sue.

Me and Bob too, splendid evenings to all.

My son is 28, and a white, half-Jewish, my half white mongrel, wingnut. Don’t know how he got that way (bad parenting, no doubt), but he luvs Faux.

The stupid, uninformed, batshit crazy, and inchoately aggrieved white guys.

Night!

Yeah, I know those commercials (late night cable…)
And of course it’s actually the government that’s now requiring re-imbursement for a new, sterile catheter every time. That’s so eeeeeevil! It’s like, enslaving the insurance companies!

Morans.

FWDiva
Yes, I’m glad the gov’t stepped in for these folks.

and some women too…there are lots of female teabaggers

Caught this before signing off.

Arachidonic Acid is one of the eicosands (spelling?). It is in egg yokes and red meat and to a lesser extent in other foods. It is the reason that for some people the Mediterrian diet works. Symptoms are high blood pressure, fatigue, skin problems including rashes, and constipation. Fish oil, four to six servings, mitigates it a bit, but avoiding egg yolks is preferred and watching intake of red meat. There are two big problems with a low carb diet. Some people like myself are sensitive to arachidonic acid and its impact is not good. Others have problems with out-of-whack senatonin and beta endorphine levels. Following the advice in Potatoes Not Prozac is a real help to working through these. There is both an old version and the new (2007) version, but the new is better and more complete. If you are having a lot of highs and lows in your mood or just don’t feel connected to your brain, the PNP book is a great help.

Good night.

g’nite ratfood

Good. Both classes went pretty well. Of course all I did in the afternoon class is go over the syllabus and show a short video. Try not to do too much the first week in intro since there is usually a 10-20% turnover in students during that time.

The women who think they should be kept barefoot and preggers in the kitchen.

Regarding the laxative subthread:

I once ate some Pringles with a grilled cheese sandwich at my Grandparents house. The next morning, while driving on the Florida turnpike, I suddenly shat my pants with almost no warning. There was no stomach upset, pain, or urgency. Just arrived without any braking power. I’m now positive it was the Olestra, but I had always thought that reputed side effect was just a joke.

Sorry for the graphic post.

That could have been entertaining. Not pretty, but entertaining.

Night to all the dearly departing.

Arachidonic acid is cis 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid. It’s an essential fatty acid (EFA, this one is one of the omega-6’s) found throughout cellular membranes as part of the cellular signaling system.

Humans can synthesize it from linoleic acid (another EFA). Other animals can’t synthesize it (commonly carnivores).

Mmm, I have had a conservative femal friend–lots of family money, married a guy who thought Nixon was out best president ever, and tried to convince me ot vote for Bush because he would put Condi Rice inthe cabinet (pandering to my lib sensibilties no doubt).

This woman used ot snort “Neo-con? Ha! There’s nothing neo about me!”

since I;ve been writng for FDL we dont seem be in touch any more…

It’s mistake to cast all cons as one type, in the same way not all libs are say DFHs and bloggers basement dwelling cheeto eaters. I dont eat cheetos…

Nite Sue, thanks for the book info. Sounds interesting.

To be sure. Just fingering some of the usual suspects.

She likes to appeal to my sense of propriety. I like to suggest moderately outrageous acts to appeal to her sense of outrage.

That book does sound good. I like reading food theory, food history. When I wrote for and edited a mag on religious history I did a feature each issue on the theology of a specific food-chocolate, coffee, bread, wine,meat.

And much to the chagrin of the Evangelicals who ran the mag I didnt confine it to just Christian views either. Bouwhahahaah.

I’d like to not do much in the first week because of the churning, but I can’t get through the syllabus if I don’t do much in the first week.

It’s a conundrum without a really good solution.

do Pringles have Olestra? UGH. That stuff scares me!

It sounds as if you have struck a proper and appropriate balance. I on the other hand, being singele, am wont to do things like put bumper stickers on my truck that say, “The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans.” I also put a picture on my office door that says “WWCD – What would Cthulhu do?”

I know the feeling. My theory seminar has to cover so much that I gave them an assignment for the first day (and despite that I am still more popular than the other guy who teaches the class in the spring).

Ahaah. I love Cthulhu. He’s so cuddly.

Especially when compared to Republicans.

I didn’t read the label at the time, but I’m assuming it was. I do remember that it was an unusual flavor, like “Hunts BBQ sauce flavored Pringles”.

I’m kind of embarrassed admitting this incident on the internet.

Pringles FatFree does.

My theory students saw the semester’s assignments last year and went on strike. I emailed them out early.

This year, I’m making the same assignments, but releasing them in smaller doses.

I was just reading a story that the brain can tell the difference between real sugar and substitutes, and it reacts to the real ones differently even when the flavor is the same.

Thank, I’ll take the real thing. I suspect it’s safer.

Paint it olestra.

http://www.scientificamerican……2009-04-06

oh there are worse things people have done on the intert00bs..and video taped them…like the really scary cyst drainage done at home by two goofy chicks on a guys back.. like that’s why we need public option was all i could think..this was soo dangerous—and gross

Anything fat-free is the answer to the wrong question. Not to mention almost always vile-tasting. I picked up some fat-free Oreos once: blerrrgh. I got a salad dressing recipe that said fat-free sour cream would work. It didn’t.

I make them read about 150-200 pages a week and we cover a different theory or cluster of theories each week. Anthropological theory has gotten nearly chaotic in its diversity in the past 20-30 years. When I was studying contemporary theory in graduate school, we could spend at least a couple of weeks on each of the major theories.

Don’t miss the last line: Pringles lite and tostitos Lite both use olestra.

You’ve. Got. To. Be. Kidding.

My fave part in the anthro class (witchcraft magic and religion) I took was the lecture on The Raw and The Cooked, and how kosher came to be (’one of these things is not like the other–neither fish nor fowl’). And a great essay about the importance of the veil in Muslim culture. Plus cool stuff about death and dying rituals.

I’ve got to teach probability theory to people who haven’t taken real analysis. I’ve been tweaking things trying to strike the right balance between making them aware of issues that I have to gloss (because they don’t have the background) and going into too much depth and losing them.

Tomorrow will be fun though. Bertrand’s Paradox.

I can’t be responsible if you click the link. It’s really beyond disgusting. And it turns out there are hepas of cyst and zit videos on youtube too. LIKE EEWWWWWW

Its raining now…. hello CA fires….. hopefully it will make it there soon

honestly it’s so gross I dont want ot post the link. you can find it by googling worlds biggest zit

I’ll pray really hard for safe landing and Los Angeles rains

This one?

Don’t have the brainpower to figure it out tonight, but I can Haz Wikkkki!

FWDiva

Time for me to toddle off. Have to be at least semi-coherent if I am going to guide them through Thomas Kuhn in my seminar tomorrow afternoon. Take care all.

Church tries to draw new members with reverse psychology

Good night, Dr. Dick. Shift those paradigms…

That’s the one…

I think the trend in the 90s to avoid fat was ridiculous. Who did we think we were fooling? (It tastes great but goes right through without being absorbed)

These days, I drink a tablespoon of flax seed oil everyday, in addition to the fish oil pill.

Flax seed oil is a bit rough on the taste buds, but i get it down –i take a “womans oil blend” which has evening primrose and borage oils, rosemary oil as well…

cant tell if I’m nauseated enough for both zofran and the compazine….

Flax seeds in oatmeal are surprisingly tasty.

I add them to cookies and my fruit cobblers

g’nite dr dick

night dr dick

I’m off to bed, too.

Good night, ‘pups.

Yeah, that’ll work!

I also use almond meal in place of up to 1/4 of the flour in recipes for cookies and cobblers and substitute in some whole wheat flour

g’nite bct

Last week we used half the sugar recommended for our fig jam. Tastes just as great.

Night all! have a good one!