This week is the 35th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, so we’re exercising our court-given right to abort a few things that are “out.” Its also the 35th Anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Coincidence? Christian conservatives think NOT. So we’ll celebrate [...]
Saw Cloverfield last night, and enjoyed it quite a bit. (Two reactions though — neither one a spoiler — (1) uhm … ewww, re: Marlena’s eventual fate and (2) That is NOT the Spring Street 6 station.) Anyway, I was disturbed to see a completely over the top, total bullshit National Guard recruitment propaganda ad [...]
Obama has just won South Carolina by the largest margin we’ve seen this cycle. The final numbers are Obama: 55%, Hillary 27%, Edwards 18%. Let’s take a look at those numbers:
Obama won by 28%.
The difference in votes between Clinton and Obama is greater than the number of people who voted for Clinton, period.
If every [...]
Sidenote: the focus on race in the South Carolina primary has yielded something terrifying: Tim Russert just said “dissing” on MSNBC.
Barack Obama has a cooler, prettier celebrity fan: Scarlett Johansson.
“I am engaged … to Barack Obama,” Johansson joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes.”
Of course unlike America Ferrera (aka Ugly Betty) who is out campaigning in [...]
If anyone is here to remind you what’s important in this world, its people like me who work in advertising. Lately our focus in the ad world has been on something Al Gore told us about called “the environment,” specifically carbon emissions. The advertising industry is particularly at risk because your carbon emissions play [...]
The subtext of any conversation on the best way to “stimulate” the economy is, of course, hot-hot-doin-it. But it took several days and the great Barbara Ehrenreich for someone to actually come out and say it. In the liveliest piece I’ve seen on the current economic crisis/panic/depression/clusterfuck, Ehrenreich conflates the economic needs of the country [...]
Three important things going on here:
(1) John McCain clearly has no idea who Sylvester Stallone is. I’ll give him sort of a pass because he was totally in captivity or something when Rocky came out, but John McCain is completely lost here. (In fairness he does recover with a joke about running up the Art [...]
Last night, in a shocking reversal of company policy, Fox began penalizing people for lying.
On Fox’s “The Moment of Truth,” which premiered last night after American Idol, contestants are hooked up to a lie detector and asked tough questions in front of family and friends. The questions include things like “Have you ever illegally smuggled [...]
Billary, in their continued attempts to destroy Barack Obama’s White House bid, have just released a new negative radio commercial in South Carolina. (Hats off to TPM for both the story and the audio clip).
Two things to note here:
1: Ignore the video part. This is a radio spot, not the world’s most boring TV commercial.
2: [...]
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