Kudos to The New York Times: "The Truth Is Hard"

The New York Times today ran a full page ad in their paper on "the truth." As with so much at The Times, it's intelligent and simple and correct. It's even strong. And we need it now, especially with this obfuscator/hypocrite/redefiner of the truth in the White House. The paper is also doing this, tonight:

Truth Is Hard,' Says New York Times' First-Ever Oscars Ad

Seems they're also going to hit The Orange One where it hurts--on one of the most-watched nights of television in the year. Here's the ad:

So good for them. Good for The Times and good for us. Great for us. We need to hold this man accountable, to all of us. We need to hold him accountable to, yes, the truth but to justice and equality and a host of other things that, from anyone else, we could assume.

Nike And Big Name Athletes Respond To Mr. Trump's "Muslim Ban"

Nike has a fantastic ad campaign out just now, complete with videos and a full page ad in the NYT today, responding to this President's attempt to shut America's doors. And with racism, no less.

Nike ad sends serious message about equality, opportunity and discrimination

Here's the video:

So kudos, congratulations and much success to you, Nike! A fantastic campaign, for sure! Equality--or something very near it--is what has and should make America great, not fear-mongering and racism and "alternative facts." Y'all are "hitting it out of the ballpark", in sports terms.

Additional links and further, terrific support:

Tiger Woods gets political with Nike's new 'Equality' campaign

LeBron James, Serena Williams and others push Nike equality ad

WATCH: LeBron James and Kevin Durant star in Nike ad calling for 'equality'

Happy National Coffee Day!

(Too late?)

It's National Coffee Day: Here's where to get coffee deals (and doughnuts)

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Another Scary, Right Wing Republican Candidate, Part II

There doesn't seem to be a shortage, especially this election year, of very, again, scary Right Wing Republican candidates running for office both statewide and nationally. Here, absolutely, is yet one more.


If he isn't a former military pretty boy who wants to wear--and is--his scary, nationalistic patriotism on his sleeve, then I don't breath air. He makes vague promises of "change" in his ads and that he will help us "take America back" but makes no specific policy stands whatever in all the ads of his I've seen.


Check out this headline from Mr. "I'm Going To Do Things Differently":

Eric Greitens Nabs Single Largest 

Campaign Contribution in Missouri History

And then check out this little beauty. He frequently describes himself as a government "outsider." Yeah, he's outside government, all right. Heck, he's outside Missouri.

Greitens' campaign mostly funded 

by non-Missouri donors

What's scary is that, besides being obviously handsome which, unfortunately, can get people like him votes, he's also a Rhodes Scholar, so he's clearly bright, but also, as mentioned a million times, at least, a former Navy Seal. That's one Hell of a package for an opposing candidate to go up against.

Vote blue, Missouri. Vote blue but vote.

Quote of the Day -- On Any "War On Terrorism"

What far too many don't know or realize. Or accept.

"You can't have a war on terrorism because that's not a actual enemy, it's an abstract. It's like having a war on dandruff. That war will be eternal and pointless. It's idiotic.

That's not a war, it's a slogan. it's a lie. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented in America. And we use it to sell soap, wars and presidential candidates in the same fashion."

--Gore Vidal.

Christmas, 1914

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Entertainment Overnight -- Budweiser hits it out of the ballpark

I don't think I'm the only one that thinks Budweiser made a rare, terrific commercial here.

"I'm back. I'm back."

Flash from the past

I love that:  "WORLD'S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING"

Funny thing, we still tell ourselves that today.

Entertainment Overnight -- And now for something completely different

Notes on a viral video

I just found this video on the YouTube home page.

Observations:

1)  How cool, simply;

2) How great that Home Depot is getting/will get support and goodwill out of it;

3) This is what equality is all about;

4) Most of us don't have, will never have someone who loves us that much;

5) It's freaking beautiful;

6) How great that all those friends--ALL those friends--were there and so supportive;

7) Their parents were there;

8)  Lots of family was apparently also there;

9) Plenty of people will have cried at how beautiful and simple this is.

10) If someone's religion gets in the way of this beauty, in the way of love, of this kind of love, it's their problem--the one with the judgmental, condemning religion--and no one else's.


Now, get out there and have a beautiful weekend, people.

It's America. It was inevitable

A new, self-proclaimed "bullet-proof chair."

A description:

The Guardian™ Chair is a chair with a bullet resistant vest. An NIJ Level II bullet resistant vest will provide protection against regular powered 9mm handguns, up to .357 Magnums.

And the requisite, very necessary video:



Instead of having less weapons and so, less shootings and maimings and killings, let's just buy bullet-proof chairs and furniture and clothing to protect us.

Brilliant.

As the British would say, bloody brilliant.

Pun intended.

Yeehaw.  Giddyup.  Go get 'em, cowboy.

And God bless Amerikuh.

Kmart advertising is on a roll

First they had the one so you could ship yer pants:



Now this:



I didn't need to ship my pants but I surely want big gas savings.

They had my attention before.  Now they may get my business.

Three things occur to me about this:

First, it's brilliant.

Second, it may be the one thing that saves them, Kmart.

Third, look for more advertising agencies and companies to follow this trend because it's so funny, so simple and so effective, if/when it does go viral.

Corporate Condescension

I can hardly believe it:

The latest in men's fashion

I saw this ad in The New York Times last week and was stunned.

Besides being stunned at how dull and awful this "fashion" is, I was stunned at the idea that a designer would create something that looks so clearly, I don't know, what? Stereotypically Communist? 

It's as though the designer thought, "Oh, what the hell, the corporations are breaking the lower- and middle-classes and impoverishing them, let's just dress them like the poor, the Proletariat, the workers, too and be done with it." 

Quote of the day

“America…is being lost through television. Because in advertising, mendacity and manipulation are raised to the level of internal values for the advertisers. Interruption is seen as a necessary concomitant to marketing. It used to be that a seven- or eight-year old could read consecutively for an hour or two. But they don’t do that much anymore. The habit has been lost. Every seven to ten minutes, a child is interrupted by a commercial on TV> Kids get used to the idea that their interest is there to be broken into. In consequence, they are no longer able to study as well. Their powers of concentration have been reduced by systematic interruption.”

―-Norman Mailer

Blow up the TV, indeed.

Funny--but maybe supports alcoholism?

It does amuse.

Google's ad to Kansas City and the world

Very cool.

Good for them, great for us.

I'm so old...

...I remember when the first commercial ad, paid for at the top of the recommended list to the right of your main, selected video on YouTube wasn't about or for Mormons.

THAT old...

Entertainment overnight

New work. New song, new video.

Nike ad for "the Paris of the Plains"

Yessir, Kansas City, you're getting mentioned. I think we've become "cool." (Thanks to local photographer extraordinaire Roy Inman for the link).