Your unpopular opinions and creepy admissions

How was it a token backdrop? Hans Gruber picked Christmas because the tower was nearly empty. John McClaine was invited to a Christmas party. I don’t think he would’ve come for Memorial Day weekend.

 

When my wife was pregnant, she finished off a whole Costco-sized tin of those.

 

I am now officially a Girl Scout Cookie Samoas P1.

I got my normal order of Thin Mints and Tagalongs today, but this time I ordered Samoas and polished them off wicked quick!

 

Me, too. But I wasn’t pregnant.

 

My normal Girl Scout cookie order includes several boxes of Samoas and Thin Mints. Anything else is second-class.

 

When Girl Scout cookie season is over, Keebler sells a Samoa type product called Coconut Dreams. Not a bad facsimile.

They also do a Thin Mints version named Grasshoppers, I believe.

 

Thin Mints make me unthin with not so minty farts, but me care not. Gimme a sleeve and an extra tall glass of milk and observe golden gluttony.

 

The Girl Scouts should come up with their own version of LU cookies.

 

I like cooking eggs- and call them eggies.

 

I still listen to AM radio. Surprisingly that's not the unpopular or creepy admission.

But on my way to and from work, its my one chance to catch up on the news that happened while I was sleeping or working. And local news stations are pretty abysmal, since there are few with any staff to speak of - and even then they have a hard time putting together a local news report at the tail end of a network news update.
I'm particularly disappointed in NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The top of the hour news if good - but overall NPR's news product is really bad - a mishmash of soft features that seem to always focus on marginalized groups facing some type of strife. The four "food groups" are "Migrants/Refugees, Global Warming, Racism, and LGBT issues." COVID has taken a back seat in recent months. It isn't that marginalized groups don't warrant coverage - of course they do, but the longish feature-y style they've adopted from Ira Glass and This American Life, gets repetitive very quickly when used on every story. Whether talking to a woman who is researching recipes from her former homeland, a tree farmer worried about a bug infestation or a feature on an LGBT hiking club taking their first hike of the year - I'm usually left asking the question - is this the most important thing I need to know today?
Maybe back when it started - it was more valued to find a place for stories that were underreported or people who were uncovered by main stream news providers - but with the degrading of news organizations at the local and national level - they could do a lot better explaining the world, than merely focusing on a few distinctive areas. And the local NPR station only repeats the behavior.
I get that a lot of this is driven by economics - it is cheaper to just have stringers send in reports on things that interest them, especially stories that "will keep" for a week or two, that you can use whenever. I just don't think they do a very good job of informing their audience at all. You get more current news on an episode of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me."

 

Irrespective of the Super Bowl matchup, sourdough isn’t a great choice to go with BBQ.

 

Seems appropriate here with the discussion above