It seems Sara Lee is red hot at Kraft. Sara Lee makes Ball Park franks; Kraft owns Oscar Mayer. According to the Chicago Tribune here’s the beef: The Sara Lee suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, says the ad is false and misleading because in large type it implies one Oscar Mayer dog … Continue reading A lawsuit to relish
For some reason earlier today NewMexiKen got to thinking about his very first day of work. It was Thanksgiving 1960. The place was the Cliff House restaurant in Tucson. At the time, the Cliff House was considered one of the best restaurants in town — great menu plus a wonderful view of the city from … Continue reading Pass the Cranberries, Please
First published four years ago today. For some reason earlier today NewMexiKen got to thinking about his very first day of work. It was Thanksgiving 1960. The place was the Cliff House restaurant in Tucson. At the time, the Cliff House was considered one of the best restaurants in town — great menu plus a … Continue reading Redux post of the day
Barack Obama, March 18, 2008: There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around … Continue reading Ashley’s story
“Michael Phelps and relay teammates relish their golden moment” Los Angeles Times Umm, didn’t they all swim the same distance? And wasn’t it Lezak in fact that was the hero?
A New Hampshire prison inmate’s file drove a federal judge to rhyme. U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead reached for Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” for inspiration when a prison inmate protesting his diet attached a hard-boiled egg to documents sent to court. “I do not like eggs in the file. I do not … Continue reading Best court ruling of the day, so far
What’s a guy to do when he has a negative experience at a local establishment, and he wants to vent, but there’s already been too much negativity for one week? I’ve decided to go the therapeutic route and express myself in a poem: Read Ode to Relish.
For some reason earlier today NewMexiKen got to thinking about his very first day of work. It was Thanksgiving 1960. The place was the Cliff House restaurant in Tucson. At the time, the Cliff House was considered one of the best restaurants in town — great menu plus a wonderful view of the city from … Continue reading Pass the cranberries, please
Found at The College Writing Programs, University of California, Berkeley — ‘we commenced wrighting &c.’ — In an age when spelling was haphazard at best and even the well- educated Thomas Jefferson sometimes wrote “knolege” for “knowledge,” William Clark stood out as a discoverer of orthographic possibilities hitherto unknown. For example, who but William Clark … Continue reading Spellbound