The “Michelle’s garden is classist and dangerous” meme. The right is frothing over (a) the fact that her garden is ORGANIC because that’s elitist and will put agribusiness out of business, and (b) the garden is dangerous, because organic gardening kills people. You can read every word of this argument over at the highly entertaining “Freedom Blog,” but here’s an excerpt:

“Having an organic garden is like having a reservoir filled with Typhoid: eventually it’s going to seep out, contaminating and destroying all food production for 100’s of miles around. It’s about time America stood up for what’s right: pesticide use should be made mandatory, and the so-called ‘organic’ food industry banned once and for all.”

Typhoid Michelle! That’s cute. But “freedom Blog” wants to impeach Obama without any concerns about how the Bush Administration relaxed virtually every food safety regulation on the books in eight years, imperiled the entire food system and put millions at risk. They also de-funded investigations and enforcement of food safety laws. Perhaps Freedom Blog would like some peanut butter? We know a nice factory in Georgia.

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President Obama’s concurrent campaigns for clean energy and health care reform. Elections have consequences, and their advocacy for these issues shows why 2008 meant so much. Linking these two issues to the current economic crisis is good strategy, and it looks like we’ll see legislation on both in 2009.

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President Obama’s “New Foundation” branding. A few months ago I argued that the Obama Administration wasn’t going to bother trying to “name” their package of programs, a la “the New Deal” or “The Great Society.” Too old-school! Too ego-driven! Too “tax and spend” liberal, I thought. Naming them, I argued, would just call out the programs as a massive expansion of government. But they just couldn’t resist. The Administration has apparently settled on the extremely lame “New Foundation” as the slogan encompassing its legislative agenda, sprinkling the phrase into 14 speeches over the last three weeks. “New Foundation?” It’s not inspiring, it’s not interesting and it’s awkward to say. It sucks.

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Baseball slang! This is the absolute favorite best article I read all week.

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“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for. So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.”

Gay marriage is bad for business? What an asshole. Ending slavery was bad for business too. Dumbass.

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Well how the fuck did this happen?

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Winding up this culture wars interlude, this is just awful:

Riot police broke up several gay rights demonstrations in Moscow on Saturday, hauling away scores of protesters hours before the capital hosted a major international pop music competition.

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Anna Marie Cox and Ed Westwick. The Air America contributor and Wonkette founder has a great album of all the funny celebs and politicos she tracked down at last weekend’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner, aka “nerd prom.” Also? Pinko’s out of control web traffic because we may have tagged a recent post “Chace Crawford, gay?” and “Chace Crawford’s penis.” We know what’s up.

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That spinoff episode Monday. TERRIBLE.  Also? The reason we had a Chace Crawford post to begin with is because he’s a fucking Republican. That sucks. Don’t ask don’t tell.

Anything we forgot? Ideas for next week? Drop us a line: ben [at] pinkomag [dot] com.