Recently I asked some of my students why we always advertise for things that are for sale, when some of the most important things in life cannot be bought or sold. I even had them do up PSAs. Well, they did them in print-advertisement formats, but I think sometime later, I’ll show them a couple of the ads from the fightglobalwarming.com webpage. If you want to see one of them, you can click under the “think about it” section in the sidebar, or have to look at the exended section of the post.
Tag: politics
OPERATION_NUKOREA
Young Hae Chang’s OPERATION_NUKOREA is enough to make me actually worry about North Korea a little; moreover, it’s enough to make me worry about the fact that so few people I know here seem worried about North Korea. Via the now-defunct but still cool Magnificent Melting Object, which was once run by someone I bet I would’ve gotten along with.
See It, Make Your Own
Chevrolet was asking for mass sabotage when it created a make-your-own-ad page online for some silly contest. Here’s mine. Not the best I’ve seen, but I like it. Go see it — soon. Or make your own. UPDATE: It’ll probably be gone when I wake tomorrow morning, but I got screen shots. Heh. I’ll do ’em up and upload soon…
“The Recent surge in violence”
This is how it’s done: This morning I learned that Pentagon officials have said that force levels in Iraq would not be cut “anytime soon,” apparently because of a “recent surge in violence” sweeping Iraq. But what struck me most about that news was votesomemore’s response in this thread claiming that, “There is ALWAYS a ‘recent surge in violence.’” That got me thinking. Is there always a “recent surge in violence” in Iraq? I Googled the phrase, and discovered that the answer to the question is, well, yes. There are a few notable periods where violence is not reported as …
On V
First off, a little occupatio, in which one starts blathering about the thing which he said he was not going to describe(*): I’m not talking about V the miniseries. V was immensely popular in Korea, so much so that only a couple of years ago, during a discussion over dinner with some old Korean friends, when the show came up, some of my tablemates were spouting out the names of major characters in the show, details I couldn’t for the life of me remember. Lime and I talked about the show recently and she said that it had a major …
‘Nother Modest Proposal
Over at Epiphany in C, there’s A Modest Proposal for the Military Industrial Complex posted by speed of Dave. The scary bit is that he’s hit the nail on the head in terms of the kinds of logic used to justify war abroad. Worth a read. Here’s a taste: To all of you who are in the business of blowing things up (people, buildings, etc), I want you to know that I understand that you need to make large sums of money in order to do so. Being that this is the case, and that I would hate to rob …
Too Expensive, but…
I don’t smoke, and I never will, but I still want these WWII Anti-Axis propaganda ashtrays. I wonder if there’d be any market for knockoffs, or something similar, but with contemporary figures. I betcha bin Laden ashtrays would sell well. And Bush ones, too.
Two More Via Ritu…
A Fatwa against terrorism was recently issued in India: Maulana Khalid Rashid of the 300-year-old Dar-ul-Itfa Firangi Mahal, one of the most conservative and most respected seminaries in the country has issued a fatwa against terrorists. And on a different line of thought, Nehru’s interview with Playboy magazine. As Ritu points out, the man himself was a playboy, so it makes a kind of sense. But whatever you think of Nehru, can you imagine any contemporary Western leader saying the following: Many years ago I read in the writings of George Bernard Shaw a passage that moved me and found …
Good Night and Good Luck
I watched the film Good Night and Good Luck the other night, and, well, it’s very obvious why a film about that ridiculous monster McCarthy had to be made now. This came to my mind as I read a post over at LocoMote which, honestly, I misread the first time I saw it. But I have noticed that people are still being polite to the legions of morons who think the Iraq Invasion was a sane, reasonable action. Why are they being polite? Why are people still being apologetic for their honesty? Why is this even a concern? There have …
For those with doubts about evolution…
Check out this pithy Doonesbury. Via Ritu’s LJ.