News Briefs
There is only one news item worthy of being briefed upon today, kiddies: The Great Eggo Disaster of 2009, which no doubt the GOP will herald as another sign of the coming 2012 apocalypse, and a sure indicator of the failed Obama Presidency, maybe worse than creeping socialism.
As the shortage of the popular frozen waffle spreads across the land, kids are crying in their breakfast cereal, mothers are panicking in grocery-store aisles, and family and friends of the San Jose man who invented Eggos are looking up to heaven, wondering what Frank Dorsa would make of this calamity.
Yes folks, this was the lead story, above the fold in today’s San Jose Mercury News. And now we know even more about the Death of the Media: it will come without tasty frozen breakfast convenience.
Hmmm, your link died.
Here’s another
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_13826766?nclick_check=1
Ack! Same link, and it’s still alive. Must be something sticky in the intertubes…
Let me atone for the above wasted bandwidth with this important story
from The L.A. Times…
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/11/pumpkin-shortage-could-mean-empty-shelves-after-thanksgiving.html
They’ll be rioting in the streets when the Pop Tart stash dries up.
Is it too late to stock up on Count Chocula?
Speak for yourself. I’ve got plenty of bodies in the freezer.
So that’s why Stephen Colbert was hollowing out copies of “Going Rogue” and stashing eggos in them.
@ psychbroad: No, that was to give them some much needed weight.