Tag Archives: Burger King

Guaranteed stinky breath

There’s a great big commercial hoo-hah going on about putting whiskey in hamburgers. On a quick religious notion, they already put cheese and bacon on them so it’s a double anti-kosher. And the specific whiskey is corn likker. Moonshine or … Continue reading

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Who okayed Chicago’s $5 million hush payment for killing Laquan McDonald? Did buck stop with Rahm Emanuel?

Laquan McDonald’s murder was covered up for over a year, five million was paid to his family to keep the killing under wraps. The Chicago police officer who shot McDonald was only charged after the video came to light. Laquan … Continue reading

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Facebook advertisers can repost “likes” in your name so you don’t have to

Users of Facebook are accustomed to seeing friends listed in right-column ads, mentioned liking such-and-such a brand, or two or three. It’s understood that those friends at some point visited the brand’s page and clicked “like”, permitting that company, Amazon … Continue reading

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Yum! It’s Burger King!

Now, Kids, restrain yourselves. Please don’t have a heart attack rushing out to get the latest item on some Burger Kings’ menus. The Bacon Sundae! JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT THAT BURGER KING COULDN’T GET ANY NASTIER, TOO!

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Mondovino: globalization and terroir, Robert Parker versus your good taste

For those with a curiosity for how wine terroir is holding up against the onslaught of wine factory farming, the 10-hour miniseries version of MONDOVINO is finally available on DVD. For viewers curious about viniculture globalization under Californian colonial domination, … Continue reading

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Corporate America’s micro-management addiction

Decades ago, while working as a Seattle garment cutter where Jimmy Hendrix’s brother once worked, I observed with awe and amazement a White man, overly dressed in coat and tie, stand directly behind the seated rows of bent over Oriental … Continue reading

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Kenneth Lay sightings

He may not turn up at Burger Kings or any of Elvis’s haunts, but I have no doubt that Enron CEO Kenneth Lay will turn up one of these days. I offer no evidence at all except to speculate about … Continue reading

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