We humans tend to have a giant soft spot in our hearts for animals. And since advertising is all about finding the soft spots of humans and then exploit them, what could be more natural than companion animals in advertisements?… Read more...
Clunker Goals Get Clunker Results – Update
Trashing a vehicle is pretty easy to do.
Of course, if your goal was to to have fun and still be able to drive home at the end of the day, then breaking an axle can only be counted as … Read more...
A Skeptical Simon Johnson on The Sun King, The Inside Man, and “Too Big to Regulate”
Almost everyone agrees that our financial system is broken. That our government is complicit in this broken system. That the American economy and the American people are suffering the consequences. And most people would even agree that it will take … Read more...
Does This Make Me an Ethics-er? Or a Corruption-er?
How can it be? After 8 years of the Bush Administration and EVERYTHING that they did wrong, how could we, a mere 9 months after President Obama stepped into office, have reached the point where Parties Nearly Tied for Congress … Read more...
Star Dust Losing Its Glitter … and Studio Heads Starting to Roll
A few weeks ago, Will Ferrell and other Hollywood celebrities along with Moveon.org felt the need to educate the American public regarding health care with a satirical video/spoof ad about “protecting” insurance company profits from health care reform. It was … Read more...
Susan Boyle and Adapting to Change
All of nature and humanity is an evolutionary history of creating and adapting to change. Adapting is how we not only survive, but thrive.
The American people, in particular, have always excelled at adapting and thriving. At our core, we … Read more...
When is Slavery No Longer a Crime, a Sin and a Moral Outrage?
When is slavery no longer a crime, a sin and a moral outrage?
When it is invisible.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, … Read more...
The Death of a Corvette Via Cash For Clunkers
Warning! The death of a Corvette is painful to watch and listen to for anyone who loves Corvettes, autos and racing. Traded in as part of the “Cash for Clunkers” program, sodium silicate solution is used to freeze up the … Read more...
Celebrating a Nurturing Nature
Okay. When I think about it, it makes sense. They share the same habitat, so it why not be companionable about it. Still, I’ve never heard of a duck that feeds one fish, let alone multiple hungry, bigger than the … Read more...