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what do zooey deschanel's choices have to do with someone who can't digest beans?

i mean, the hypothetical person you are building isn't zooey deschanel, so how is that vegan? a person allergic to beans/gluten might choose not to be vegan. what if they were allergic to beans, and nuts, and gluten, and chicken, and eggs and dairy, and didn't want to eat meat? that's their business. it's not like zooey deschanel has said no one has an excuse not to be vegan.

the vegan question is really, what if you don't have any allergies or intolerances? then you need a reason not to be vegan. (which of course, people still have).

and really, it's rare that someone would be allergic to all those things. taking any individual thing out, gluten, or soy, or nuts, isn't a problem at all. and again, no one is passing anti-meat laws, so folks who are allergic too all of that still have choices.

i'm with simon. pooping gold, as david cross says, is the ultimate f you to the people who mined it.

i hate the term pantie, definitely prefer underpants.

i don't see why there shouldn't be a word that encompasses all sorts of people who are excited about/interested in food. why not foodie? i don't understand. is it just too english and not french enough (judging by chris onstad's list, french derivision is universal regarding food fans.)

i also don't understand why ducks in space are any less christian than ducks in bonnets. ducks aren't particularly eastery, in general. I mean there are easter bonnets, but aren't there also non-easter bonnets? why not just sell bonnet ducks?

i'm guessing the butt crack bit was just modesty on her part. this stuff doesn't air on tv.

also, she is utterly fantastic. the one about laxatives is -great-.

yeah, i'm all for veganism, but handing out propaganda to kids at halloween is creepy. well, i guess halloween is supposed to be creepy. but really, i think nothing would turn a kid off to veganism faster than giving them literature about it on halloween. I can get behind the bible idea though because i kind of don't want kids reading the bible.

i think about walter's pretty often considering i haven't eaten there in at least 12 years. sometimes i crave it, but i'm a vegetarian now. growing up, i thought it walter was chinese because of the design. also, i hated hot dogs. i thought they were gross. -unless- they were from walter's. so there's definitely something special about them.

the pants comment reminds me of that simpsons episode where krusty tells people to burn their money and homer does it and the next night he's seeing krusty's show again and yells, "don't you hate pants".

produce stories: i don't know about the book, or slavery, but the freakonomics blog was all over the anti-racist blogosphere last week for saying some stupid shit about mixed race folks.

as for the locavore stuff, yeah. seriously, it's like a lot of arguments against things that make a lot of sense. "but we can't do it all the way all the time!" that doesn't lessen the impact of doing it sometimes or as much as you can. plus, they are ignoring the complimentary vertical farming movement entirely.

well, i do like beards, though not ironically.

i think he is a dj (or at least he is djing with an ipod) because he's got a pa speaker on his left.

worldcupfever: djs?

i don't know why this makes me uncomfortable. i guess because it's just more publicity for shitty bands people already love.

that said, denny's still won't use vegan boca burgers (that miniscule amount of cheese in the regular boca burgers are apparently a make or break deal for stupid vegetarians) so i still have to keep my rock and roll lifestyle denny's free.

could it have to do with fast food? how are diners and burger places doing? there's a 24 hour palace fried chicken near me that seems to be going strong. i mean, that's not a soul food place, but i could see hard economic times making folks who crave fried chicken choose kfc over a sit down real food restaurant.

despite vegetarianism, soul food is still my favorite kind of food.