Posts Tagged ‘Valentine’s Day’
I Call Bullshit On Washington “Power Couples” Meetup Stories
Yesterday, Politico’s Becca Milfeld posted a Valentimey collection of the first-date stories of Washington “power couples.” Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff were escorted on their first date by friends, Joseph Lieberman’s wife asked him to move her furniture, and John Dingell brought Deborah to see “Giselle.” What, no ill-advised drunken hook-ups that led, unexpectedly, to high-profile romance? I call bullshit. Let’s read between the lines, shall we?
POWER COUPLE: Al Hunt (Washington editor, Bloomberg News) and Judy Woodruff (senior correspondent, PBS)
ON THE RECORD HOOKUP: “Hunt had long suffered from migraine headaches and had one when they went out on their first date, a meal with friends at an Italian restaurant in Washington, on March 19, 1977. But he hasn’t had a migraine since.”
REALITY: What, no wine with dinner? Woodruff must have served up some kind of medicine!
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Stank Eye: Causing Unplanned Pregnancies Since the Invention of Condoms
I’ve written pretty extensively on how pharmacists can exert power over their customer’s contraceptive use. I’ve reported on pharmacists who restrict birth control by hewing to Catholic tradition; by refusing to talk; by extolling the virtues of “natural family planning”; and by writing absurd run-arounds into their policies.
Now, Shark-Fu of Angry Black Bitch and Shakesville details a more nontraditional method employed by some pharamcists in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri: the “stank eye.”
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Valentine’s Day Marketing Fail
Darryl Ohrt over at Brand Flakes for Breakfast points out this curious Valentine’s Day display at a New York City Macy’s:
The display is called “My Funny Valentine. It’s inspiration? Not so funny:
Valentine’s Day Is Boring
Your Valentine’s Day plans are like that totally crazy dream you had last night where your boss was in front of you on a water slide, but then your boss turned into Dick Cheney and when you reached the bottom he captured you and tried to waterboard you, but then a dragon came down and brought you out for Mexican and that kid you had a crush on from high school physics was there: I’m sure it was great for you, but fuck, man, I don’t really care.
Now, the U.S. Census Bureau has chimed in to make Valentine’s Day even more boring with a special press release full of boring numbers. Did you know that in 2006, 1,170 locations produced chocolate and cocoa products in 2006? Or that in the same year, 473 locations produced “nonchocolate confectionary products”? And that there were 3,563 “confectionery and nut stores” in the United States Alone? How about the “total value of shipments in 2006 for firms producing chocolate and cocoa products”—$13.9 billion! Fuck, I can’t take this anymore. Below, the full census presser.
