Not the Super Bowl T-shirt and not organic.You know the green movement has become nothing more than a shallow marketing tool when the National Football League adopts it for the benefit of selling T-shirts. Yes, the NFL. The league that brought excess and bling to new levels. The league whose wanton devotion to consumerism has made its television commercials as big as the game itself. The league whose carbon-footprint from tailgaters, stadium waste and jet fuel can make the slums of Mumbai look a
Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.Barb resembles Carol Channing: a tiny woman with a white bob and a voice so gravely that it could fill the potholes in the street outside Barb's Rendezvous. She held court at the center of the bar, and every patron stopped to say hello.My friend Arkay and I refrained, being the new
