A Question Never Satisfactorily Answered

Why is broccoli considered a 'premium' or 'gourmet' topping at most pizza places? Did cabbage derivatives get chic when I wasn't looking? Did the King of Pizza utter, 'Broccoli? Ooh la la...," in the presence of the Minister of Toppings elevating it above mere mushrooms and peppers?

Broccoli: The Classica Brassica.

I know a Few Folks with an Anerson Cooper Crush

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/18/can-pittsburgh-save-detroit/

Front page on CNN.com.  Well la di da.  Will it air tonight?  Nobody knows.

One thing:  "Moody’s says Pittsburgh will be the only city out of the top 100 U.S. metropolitan regions to post a gain in housing prices one year from now."  

Que?  Is that really true?  Jeez.  

Billboard Idea

Instead of one big billboard at the end, we should let Lamar build several small ones along Grant Street and get the local blogosphere write the messages.

Welcome to our town...

Watch out for potholes...

Our mayor's a clown...

And our council are assholes...

Burma Shave

Pittsburgh + Transit + Yglesias

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/03/my_kind_of_book.php

Some NSC and incline chatter in the comments.

Blogfessions

If this seems like a feature that is both self-indulgent and psychologically suspect, screw you!  Didn't you hear? Its only a matter of time before we are all reduced to roasting wieners over hobo fires (but only if we best the villagers from whence they came... a scenario best envisioned dependent on your exposure to disaster fiction).  We have limited time.  The Kosmic Turtle is slowing and sinking.  Blogfess while you can!

• I prefer to not sit near children on the bus.  - Expressing any reservation with regard to children in any way conjures a dangerous spirit in many of the bechilded.  Fearing that spirit, I say little, but if I move away from your kid's lollipop or stuff my iBud-thingies into my ear tighter when Fuzznut discovers a rude truth about life, forgive me please.
  
• The effect of somewhat warmer weather on women's attire in Pittsburgh makes me wonder what the knock-up rate is like in the Yukon when things thaw.  Martians would discern a mating ritual that I'm not allowed to point out explicitly.  Post-modern take:  I relegate my intake of visual stimuli I haven't adequately matured in adopting a posture to frame in context with a larger context of properly franchising the actors within the unfranchisable total.  Lizard Brain take: I like that the women are less puffier and in less of a hurry.  Go figure. 
  

Why are Recessions Blue?

Economists indiscriminately employ the color blue. Blue is the go-to color for anything economists go about explaining in charts and graphs as a positive, red representing the bloody negative.  And yet, recessions are always shaded blue, as if economists take delight in interest rather than meaty concerns. Hmm.  Are Chris Briem and Paul Krugman rustling my bushes now, lying in wait with glee to see how I demographically vary from model CZX-Seldon's Ineffable Study of Butterfly Sneezes and the Grand Depression of the Later Mandira-Jive Talk Hegemony?  Watchin' y'all... 

Edgar Snyder vs. Jesus

Somewhere along the line I gave up putting Lord in front of Jesus Christ, but I never gave up putting Attorney in front of Edgar Snyder.  Behold the once-mighty power of UHF televison.