I recently offered up an open letter to America’s progressive billionaires where I noted how much better conservatives have been historically at making best use of their intellectuals and at assuring that those laying the foundation for political action were taken care of. That is, the Daniel Bells of the world didn’t have to slave at two jobs to scrape
Read moreI’m sure you’ll have questions. But first, just indulge yourself in the magic of milk-rock legends White Gold.
Read moreFreewriting, then, around some keywords: [sigh] The fusion juice contusion slams it together in song and inclusion we join our hands in stark confusion Reusing the poverty-stricken vows of howitzers and butterflies freebasing the verse reverse like bass guitars with wings (the bassist is racist? What the hell does that mean?)
Read moreI’m beginning to get a bad feeling about Campaign ’08. A nasty, sinking feeling that we’re a’fixin’ to spend the next three months obliterating ever record for dirty, dishonest, unethical, immoral electioneering in the history of American politics. I don’t say this casually. I remember the Bush I “Willie Horton” ad. I lived through multiple Jesse Helms campaigns in North
Read moreHappy Saturday. For those of you who don’t work in the world of marketing and advertising, this is so accurate it’s a little scary.
Read moreMediaPost reports this morning on an interesting new survey from TNS, which says that “sixty percent of shoppers across the globe believe that they will be able to pay for purchases using just their fingerprint by 2015, rated top by 25% of shoppers.” Never mind the chill that should send down the spine of anyone who values their privacy –
Read moreQ: How can you tell when politicians are lying? A: When they say they aren’t. As we wade deeper into the silly swamp that is Electoral Trainwreck ’08 I realize that most nights I wind up giggling myself to sleep. My old friend Disraeli famously observed that people tend to get the government they deserve, and as I’ve noted before,
Read moreGive me one last dance We’ll slide down the surface of things You’re the real thing Yeah the real thing You’re the real thing Even better than the real thing I figured out a long time ago, even before I began encountering grad-level feminist critiques, that our media’s stylized construction and portrayal of female beauty was problematic. It’s bad enough
Read moreThere’s so much badvertising in the world, so today on the Saturday Video Roundup we’re going to spend some time with some good (or at least entertaining) ads we’ve come across recently. Let’s start with the coolest gorilla in the world.
Read moreIt’s been a great week for videos. By all means, keep those links coming. First up, you may have seen this week’s report about drunk astronauts. Well, before you can be a drunk astronaut you have to be a drunk pilot. (Thanks to Steve Reynolds.)
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