Huffing and puffing

"7 hippie companies that are not as liberal as you think".

Like small children who enjoy scaring themselves, we enjoy, at times, to huff and puff about a piece of "we all need to feed the family" journalism.

You don't have to look very hard to find food for mockery, and we have selected a Huffington Post  slideshow "7 Hippie Companies That Aren't As Liberal As You Think" as today's subject of derision.

We won't dignify the slideshow with a response beyond the first on their list: the Whole Foods grocery empire.

Our German readers, please do not fault us for not having a German equivalent company name. The best we can do off-hand is something like a slightly less pricey and snobby Kaefer (Munich).

"Whole Foods" is also known to everybody as "Whole Paycheck", so no more about prices.
The boss of Whole Food has been known for Big Words, accusing politicians he does not like as socialist or fascist -- the same politician can be issued one of these ever so accurate labels, depending on the year and the male hormonal cycle of Mr. Whole Foods.

How does a company like this make a "hippie" list, you ask?

Because they were the first [TheEditor: we did not fact check this] major grocery in the US that sold organic food and other healthy stuff on a large scale.

Which earned them the hippie label. Which will lead to another post about hippies and money.

So, just as you learned in school and see in politics every day, you take one little attribute, blow it up the the approximate size of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, and you have a subject to write about.

It won't make you enough money to go shop at Whole Foods, but that's not the point.

We still like the Huffington Post and its spunky founder Ariana, by the way.