How the wingnut political tabloid The Daily Caller reports this:

White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses is resigning after First Lady Michelle Obama fundamentally changed his job duties to focus on healthier food.

Yosses is leaving the White House in June to work on a new project focusing on “food literacy” and The New York Times says Michelle is “partly to blame.” The openly gay chef was hired by Laura Bush in 2007 to make his trademark cookie plates and sugar sculptures. Mrs. Obama took over in 2009 and ordered Yosses to make healthier plates in smaller portions.

Yosses began replacing butter with fruit puree and sugar with honey and agave. But Yosses was never fully committed to the new policy.

“I don’t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs,” Yosses said, noting that his departure from the White House is a “bittersweet decision.”

Sounds like the First Lady drove him out with all her health crap. Right?

Here's how the NY Times reports it:

Hired by Laura Bush in 2007, when he was already acclaimed in New York for the raspberry and pear soufflés he created at restaurants like Montrachet and Bouley, Mr. Yosses began moving beyond the traditional sugar sculptures and cookie plates after Mrs. Obama arrived at the White House. He was directed to make more healthful desserts, and in smaller portions, that were to be served only sparingly to the first family.

Mr. Yosses began experimenting with alternatives to what he called “the usual blitzkrieg” of butter and cream. Now, he said, “we replace butter with fruit purée, which gives some body.” He often uses honey and agave in place of sugar, has added whole grains to desserts and is considering heirloom varieties of whole wheat without the bitterness of wheat bran and germ in modern whole-wheat flour.

Mr. Yosses has also been inspired by the White House garden, where he has chosen from a cornucopia of strawberries, blueberries, rhubarb, figs, papaya, carrots, sweet potatoes and herbs like lemon thyme flowers, lavender and pineapple sage. Nearby is honey from the White House beehives. The result — oatmeal bars, baked apples and pear-quince cobblers, among many others — will have a lasting impact on his eating habits, as will Mrs. Obama.

“She has done it with humor and good will, without preaching, just the way you would hope the ‘Mom in chief’ would do,” Mr. Yosses said. He called her “definitely an inspiring boss, a combination of spontaneity and seriousness.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Yosses has hardly turned his back on his old, sweet life. “I don’t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs,” he said.

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Mr. Yosses, 60, said he was also moving to New York to be with his husband, Charlie Jandusay Fabella Jr., a teacher. The two married in Washington in 2011, but “for the 11 years my husband and I have known each other, we have lived in different cities,” Mr. Yosses said.

The pastry chef will not leave the White House until June, when he hopes to put together “a group and foundation of like-minded creative people” for promoting delicious food as healthy food. He offered no more details about his venture, but said it would be devoted to food literacy from the bottom up.

Mmmm. Smells like the Daily Caller is cookin up a big batch of mendacity.

That is the nonsense that they teach in women’s studies at Duke University, this is where she learned this. The toxic stew of the modern university is gender studies, it’s “Sex Week,” they all have “Sex Week” and teaching people how to be sex-positive and overcome the patriarchy. My daughters go to a little private religious school and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot.

Thus spaketh Austin Ruse, "devout Catholic" and the leader of a group called the "Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute".

Who would Jesus take out and shoot?

I celebrated by having π·r²/4 of a pizza for lunch.

How did you honor the ratio?

What would Ronald Reagan do
If he was here right now,
He'd make a plan
And he'd follow through,
That's what Ronald Reagan'd do.

When Ronald Reagan was in the olympics,
Skating for the gold,
He did two salchows and a triple lutz
While wearing a blind fold.

When Ronald Reagan was in the alps,
Fighting grizzly bears,
He used his magical fire breath,
And saved the maidens fair.

So what would Ronald Reagan do
If he were here today,
I'm sure he'd kick an ass or two,
That's what Ronald Reagan'd do.

And what would Ronald Reagan do,
He'd call all the kids in town,
And tell them to unite for true
That's what Ronald Reagan would do.

When Ronald Reagan travelled through time
To the year 3010,
He fought the evil robot kings
and saved the human race again

And when Ronald Reagan built the pyramids,
He beat up Kubela Kong.

Cos Ronald Reagan doesn't take shit from an-e-y-body

So let's all get together,
And unite to stop our moms
And we'll save Ukraine and Syria too,
Cos that's what Ronald Reagan do.

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Led Zeppelin is going to remaster all of their records, and issue them in an array of fancy new packages, some with new songs (live or unreleased).

They want all of my quarters. They might get a few of them, too.

Kevin Drum notes a WaPo poll that finds that roughly half of the people polled think that a candidate who received an endorsement from Obama would make them less likely for that candidate.

Roughly half!

Where I come from, we have a word for people who would find an endorsement from a Democratic President to be a negative: "Republicans".

In a shocking coincidence, they make up roughly half of all Americans.

Let the panic begin.

The Americans.

Spy v spy, in the 80s! So far, it's more fun than Homeland because I don't have to keep wondering why the CIA would employ a disobedient, bi-polar nut-case. The Russians would employ a deep-cover married couple? Sure! Plus, 80s music and clothes and interior decoration.

Says, "Hey, get this shit off me" !