That's just the thing. I don't know where to place her in a "someone like that" context. I imagine that she's a groundbreaking person (first female white house correspondent) with flaws (potential racist), and I'm suggesting that two different quotes that showed both sides would have been appropriate.

I agree that it's part of her, but it seemed strange, when she spent so much of her life in the media, that this was the only quote from her used in the NPR piece.

That was my thought. I don't know enough from that one statement to classify her as anti-semetic (especially just based on her ethnicity of "arab-american" which she actively rejected), but surely there's a better way to communicate a complicated human being's legacy than just the most notorious think she said on tape.

accidental nervous rambling can be excused, particularly if it wasn't specifically directed at someone's current apparatus. I hope you weren't like, "you know, I think that girl's harness was frayed just like yours" *CLICK*

I didn't know much about her, but I was ticked that, in NPR's "eulogy," the only radio clip of her long career they used was the one that caused her ignominious termination from Hearst. Although I heard her say "Tell them to get out of Palestine" as an 89-year-old professional journalist, and I thought she sounded…

FFFFFFFF.... the only coasters I like are the ones with the over-the-shoulder harnesses (the lap bars on old ones make me super nervous). Now, I'm like, NOPE.

"Neptune High really does sit on a hell mouth..."

Anything similar to a croissant or puff pastry is a pain in the ass to do at home, because of the "lamination" process that requires rolling out dough, folding in butter, rolling it again, putting in more butter, folding and rolling, ad infinitum, to get all those layers.

MacGyver, is that you?!?!

Cyclist thighs should be in museums. *sigh*

Betty Crocker is a good jumping off point into the world of microwave cakes (it keeps your expectations in line), but I highly recommend some of the diy variations you can make in mugs.

Am I weird because I mis-read the headline and clicked, thinking I'd get to see cyclists from the Tour de France in black shinny spandex and vests-with-no-shirts? Because cyclists... nomnomnomnom...

I'm sure we can find some common ground. If not microwave cake, how about Krispie Kreme? That's halfway between microwave cakes and cronuts, right? It's the doughnut for people who have given up.

Are you really going to criticize microwave cake? Microwave cake is amazing and should be inviolate. Besides, no one has to wait in ridiculous 6 am lines dressed in Cronut Cosplay to get a microwave cake. And, unlike cronuts, you can make one yourself out of flour, water, some old gum and a paper clip*.

Yes, it's possible I would not have been as receptive an audience if I had not worked/spent a lot of time in Ottawa, Calgary and Toronto.

I've never heard it stated that way, but it's perfectly understandable the way you've written it.

I think (totally just my opinion) it would have been funny integrated into the body of the video, but positioning it as a closing statement gave it more weight than just a joke and was an off note for me.

I am not Canadian (sadly), but I used to work for a Canadian company (several in a row actually) and spent several weeks in Ottawa in the summer two years ago. I got to see the patriotic laser lights show they projected up against the parliament building that told the history of Canada (I think it was designed by the…

I like America the Beautiful SO much better. It actually talks about our country's attributes, rather than wars and god and blowing shit up and random lights that make no sense.

I think that article/analysis says everyone's a douche in their own special way. We're like douchey snowflakes. Yay?