As if to prove their own irrelevancy once and for all, conservative talking heads are making fun of President Obama because of what type of mustard he ordered on a hamburger.
The president and Vice President Joe Biden took the news media along last week when they slipped out of Washington to have lunch at a locally famous burger joint in Virginia. Obama requested “spicy or Dijon mustard” on his burger.
Apparently, anything but plain yellow mustard is un-American and elitist. At least that’s the position taken by desperate right-wing blowhards Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Read more here.
• They Fired All the Copy Editors, Part XIV: Speaking of food, the local newspaper today has its annual story about how much food and beverage will be consumed at Friday morning’s Pancake Breakfast put on the Asphalt Cowboys. Under a photo of a milk carton is a caption that says, “With California cows spitting out 8 gallons a day…”
First of all, yuck. Secondly, that’s not how you get milk out of a cow.
Another caption uses the Sundial Bridge as a way to measure sausage, saying enough sausage patties will be consumed at the annual Pancake Breakfast to “string 15 streamers of patties from the top of the bridge of the ground.” That has got to be the most creative way to measure sausage I’ve ever seen, but I wouldn’t want to be the person stringing them all together. Also, “Streamers of Sausage” would be a good name for a rock band.
For details about the Pancake Breakfast and other Rodeo Week events, click here.
- Several agencies are sponsoring a community fair Wednesday to get out the word about mental health resources available in Shasta County. The Minds Mattter Mental Health Resource Fair will run from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at the Redding Library. For more information, click here.
- Brace yourself: The National Weather Service says we’ve got a scorcher of a weekend ahead. Temperatures in Redding could reach 103 by Sunday. I’m not ready . . .
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