On the Aqua Hunger Marketing campaign, August Pollack has similar thoughts to Wheaton.

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Menino is going on TV and insisting he's going to send a 27-year old artist to jail for not breaking any law, because his police department overreacted and wasted a million dollars feeding a media frenzy and terrorizing the population of his own city. That's a cowardly act of self-preservation, and were he not threatening the life of an innocent young man it would be laughable.

Let's get a few facts straight on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force sign fiasco:

1. Attorney General Martha Coakley needs to shut up and stop using the word "hoax." There was no hoax. Hoax implies Turner Networks and the ATHF people were trying to defraud or confuse people as to what they were doing. Hoax implies they were trying to make their signs look like bombs. They weren't. They made Lite-Brite signs of a cartoon character giving the finger.

2. It bears repeating again that Turner, and especially Berdovsky, did absolutely nothing illegal. The devices were not bombs. They did not look like bombs. They were all placed in public spaces and caused no obstruction to traffic or commerce. At most, Berdovsky is guilty of littering or illegal flyering.

3. The "devices" were placed in ten cities, and have been there for over two weeks. No other city managed to freak out and commit an entire platoon of police officers to scaring their own city claiming they might be bombs. No other mayor agreed to talk to Fox News with any statement beyond "no comment" when spending the day asking if this was a "terrorist dry run."

4. There is nothing, not a single thing, remotely suggesting that Turner or the guerilla marketing firm they hired intended to cause a public disturbance. Many have claimed the signs were "like saying 'fire' in a crowded theater." Wrong. This was like taping a picture of a fire to the wall of a theater and someone freaked out and called the fire department.

As they say - read the whole thing:

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It's not oatmeal, but it's not waffles either. You'll live an extra ten minutes.

Hey! We had blueberry waffles this morning!

The NY Times actually used the word "oops" in their headline for this story:

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope that he could ride his foreign policy expertise into contention for the Democratic nomination, instead spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

Didja' know that blasphemy is a crime in Massachusetts?

This is the state where blue laws just survived a referendum-attempt to kill them. It would not surprise me if prostitutes were still formally called "fallen women" in the state law code.

Old-fashioned is the nicest word I can think of for it; but at least I know that other states have much more embarrassing spaghetti code in their legislative histories.

It was low-fat granola!!

Hey! We had blueberry waffles this morning!

::bumps Cash down on the actuarial table::

It was low-fat granola!!

Why would you do a thing like that?

I'm sad to report that if you're going to continue to smoke you have to make an extra effort to not dead yourself prematurely. Granola is not enough. Take a timely tip from Daisy.

Or consider Cindy's commitment to the four hour a day Jazzercize routine. (Now with extra calorie burning jazz hands.)

On the smoking thing - I was thinking about it over the weekend. And how expensive the quitting smoking things - the patch, the gum, etc are so expensive.

And it occured to me that alcohol is also an addictive substance that is legal. And how health insurance has to cover rehab. And how employers have to allow people to go to rehab without fear of losing their jobs. And how some states will cover rehab.

Why doesn't health insurance cover smoking cessation programs? In the long run, it would save them money from having to treat people from cancer, emphezema, asthma, and all of the other various illnesses that happen from smoking.

For us, if we could afford the huge upfront cost of the gum or the patch, or if it was subsidized in some way by our health insurance, it would be a lot easier to quit.

Just a thought.

Why doesn't health insurance cover smoking cessation programs?

I though Blue Cross did....

Our insurance covers Zyban and I think it also covers the patch.