THE GURGLING COD: "Julia Child is an Uncle Tom!" Or, Dog days for The Feedbag?

Now and again, after The Gurgling Cod has posted something that it thought was boldly iconoclastic, and insouciant in its argument, there is that deflating moment when the only comment comes from Fr33 C!ali$. Times like that, The Cod has been known to assert to nearest and dearests that he will put up a post with the title "Julia Child is an Uncle Tom"* just to see what would happen. In devoting an entire post describing the boundless extent of his indifference to the Momofuku food cart rumors, Ozersky may be up to the same thing. Unfortunately, the genre of an entire short essay devoted to the author's lack of interest in the topic is exactly the kind of thing people hoped to escape when they stopped reading newspapers. (I will bet you a dollar that Dan Shaughnessy has mailed in at least one column on his indifference to MMA, for instance.) On the other hand, as anyone who has seen The Pajama Game can tell you, fervent declarations of indifference toward a given individual, ironically, are frequently interpreted by witnesses as evidence of deep feelings for the very individual for whom indifference has been professed.** Has late July malaise caught up w/ The Feedbag or is it something else?***

*The inspiration was an SNL Hardball parody, where Tracy Morgan, as Harry Belafonte, asserts that "Osama Bin Laden is an Uncle Tom."

**This is the Doris Day version. Sadly, one cannot embed Doris Day. When did they stop making broads like this? Chenoweth me no Chenoweths.

***A belated perusal of the comments indicates that Ozersky has been excommunicated from the Church of Chang, which may or may not explain this solemn declaration of indifference.