Millennials v. Mayonnaise. Definitely read this article on the latest victim of the tastes of my generation and why it’s such a loss. But are millennials wrong in this case? I’ve long been a hater of mayo, and so is Bill Kristol. It’s a topic we discussed on today’s podcast. Tune in!
Seb’s fake business cards. Former interim security clearance holder / temporary White House staffer and sometime (depending on the hour) television pundit Seb Gorka got busted for making his own Fox News business cards. The Bond villain hopeful’s attempt at passability failed the “has a consistent color scheme” test, but at least appears to have been printed by a professional, and not on a home printer.
Speaking of relics… how about the archaeology of Trumpism? Talking Points Memo breaks down the trial balloons and beta tests leading up to the most unlikely presidency in decades.
Free beer for Cleveland! (If the Browns ever win, that is.) The marketing gurus at Bud Light are offering free beer for Cleveland Browns fans at a number of bars in northeast Ohio from a custom cooler that will be unlocked if the once-storied franchise manages to win a game this season. Thank God the brand is not pushing the “born-on date” so much anymore, since the last time the Browns won was December 2016. Who knows how stale the beer will be by the time it is released from its cool prison?
Liberté. Égalité. Miction publique. Yes, that’s French they’re speaking, and no these children aren’t American, they’re Eur-a-pee’n. Forgive the dad jokes, but this story about France setting up public urinals has me laughing at the world’s snobbiest people.
Chicken nugget catastrophe. In Tennessee, a train collided with a truck full of frozen chicken nuggets, which were strewn “for blocks.”
Brett Kavanaugh’s bad baseball guests. The Free Beacon has a funny satirical post mocking a call for crowdsourced photos of the SCOTUS nominee at Nationals games.
15th Anniversary of the Great Northeast Blackout. Tens of millions from Ohio to New York City spent days without power starting on this date in August 2003 because of a grid failure. It was the largest power outage in American history. I remember where I was, in Cleveland, my first summer home from college. It was hot and the stars were unlike anything I had seen since my first trip to Yellowstone. The public transit system ran a line a half block from my house, and we ferried water to the stranded train driver. The second night, the brothers at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house at Cleveland State had a massive cookout and tiki party to salvage the meat in their freezers before it went bad.
New Yorkers fared far worse than less dense cities like Cleveland.
A few years later, Cleveland’s Great Lakes Brewing Co. created a special beer called “Blackout Stout” which is fantastic, and if you can find it where you are, the perfect drink to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this strange event.
Obviously, this happened pre-smartphone and pre-social media. Can you imagine how much worse it would have been if this happened today?
Thankfully, when Virginia had its tax-free holiday for back-to-school and hurricane preparedness a few weeks back, I made sure to get a solar charger for all of our devices. Can’t let the internet go more than a few minutes without sharing our very important opinions and pictures of dark abodes, of course.
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