Bitchelle Balkin revels in sophomoric scuttlebutt regarding pickles and scarves because she's living out her fantasy of being a petty high school Queen Bee. Her natural public state is shallow, flippant, bitchy, and humor-impaired.

Recall, if you can or will, when she dressed up like a frumpy cheerleader in one asinine video that gave some people nightmares.

She's a goddamned wanna-be. Always has been.

If you're expecting anything more than trivial banter she only thinks makes her look sharp and/or witty, you're bound to be disappointed.

In naming the states are you referring to the states that Obama won that Kerry didn't win?

This has got to be the stupidest fauxrage ever.

And the readers of such tripe get incensed over it.... I weep for the future. With Honey-Dijon please.

J!F!C! And I thought they were going to make a big deal of him ordering it medium well instead of rare -- or at least medium rare (like a real man.

Four words: The Campaign Is Over.

(ok six):

He Won.

I'm tired of repubs telling me their hatred of Obama is comperable to my alleged hatred of Bush.

I gave the guy (Bush) an honest shot. He worked pretty fucking hard and EARNED my disregard.

And I never wanted stuff to go bad just so I could badmouth him more.

I'm tired of repubs telling me their hatred of Obama is comperable to my alleged hatred of Bush.

I gave the guy (Bush) an honest shot. He worked pretty fucking hard and EARNED my disregard.

And I never wanted stuff to go bad just so I could badmouth him more.

This reminds me of the email a wingnut associate sent me showing a picture of Obama and Biden sitting in a burger joint yesterday with a headline of elitist and pathetic.

There is seriously NOTHING that the fringe will not jump on to try and make an issue of. Like a bunch of monkeys in the zoo flinging poo and jacking off.

At this point the con-servative writers' brains must be composed of Dijonaise w/cheese.

Their niggling is reaching astronomical levels. At some point they're going to be turned inside out and will seek to defend Obama tooth and nail against the dreaded Blue Dogs (a much bigger threat to Obama).

Malkin, Beck, and Faux News really need to keep up the good work. Since the tea parties and all the accompanying outrage that has ensued since April 15, Obama's approve/disapprove numbers have gone from 61/31 to 67/27.

Keep up the good work Malky, Becky, and Fauxy. You're doing a heckuva job.

I have decided one of two things after reading Jacobson's post: 1) He's joking; or 2) I have to apologize for my hometown. Trust that he is a lone wolf in hippie-liberal Ithaca.

Who the hell puts Grey Poupon and gherkins (don’t ask me what those are, I have no idea) in tuna sandwiches for kids?

I do. I won't eat tuna salad without diced gherkins, diced onions, dijon mustard and mayonaise. Diced celery is optional. My question in return is: What kind of fake American does not know what a gherkin is? I'll bet Ms. Dim Bulb is clueless on a Texas leaguer as well.

I bet little Ms. Know-it-all-about-everything-real-American didn't bother to look up Gherkin at Wikipedia. If she had, she could have read this:

The gherkin may have been introduced to the American public by one Minton Collins of Richmond, Virginia, who was offering it for sale in the Virginia Gazette in 1792, although it might have been known in Colonial times under another name. It was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson. Pickling of gherkins was at first a domestic activity, but the jar of pickles became a commercial product in France as early as the 1820s. The condiment rapidly became generally popular, although always more so in the USA than among the British, for whom the generic ‘pickle’ remained the small, sweet onion, where gherkin according to the OED is listed as a slang.

Who knew that Thomas Jefferson was unamerican?

Malkin the blathering fool extraordinaire.

what silly git said

I couldn't believe malkin didn't know what a gherkin is. Would never make tuna salad without diced gherkins.

But then why would I be surprised by any show of ignorance from malkin and her buddies? Their whole claim to fame is based on being ridiculous.

This reminds me of that nonsense when people were referring to french fries as freedom fries instead.

Me and my daughter make that gherkinified tuna salad on a mercurially-high basis.

How is this any more ridiculous than showing Republicans in clown makeup?

The guy reporting this mustard scandal is a law professor at Cornell?? Unbelievable!

Oh wow, I'm from Ithaca & my father is a law professor at Cornel; I've known pretty much the entire faculty for most of my life, yet I can't think of who this wingnut idiot is. I'll have to ask my dad just how much of a wingnut this guy really is.

I love how the bottom comments are trying to portray this as an attempt at "humor".

Republicans really don't get the concept of comedy, do they?

Entry from February 19, 2008 on the Website The Big Apple (http://www.barrypopik.com/):

Yankee Burger (hamburger with ketchup)

A “"Yankee Burger” is a hamburger (or cheeseburger) with ketchup. In most parts of the country, this is simply called a “hamburger” (or “cheeseburger"). However, many Texas restaurants serve hamburgers with mustard. A hamburger with mayonnaise (and without ketchup or mustard) is called a “Sissy Burger.”Real hotbed of 'Librul Eleetism' that State of Texas, yes sir. Shmucks!

So, are we gonna work the word "freedom" into the word "cheeseburger" somehow, or...?

Because Lord knows, I'd hate to accidentally order a commieburger with a side of socialism fries.