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2 Really Good Questions To Ask About Global Warming
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Two really damn good questions, in fact. So good, they make you wonder why more journalists aren’t asking them. Would NBC still have done their pandering ‘green’ messaging during November sweeps, complete with green peacock symbol if they had asked themselves these questions?
Probably, but keep in mind that most are Hollywood pinheads, after all.
So listen [...]
UK Kiboshes Selling Gore "Brainwashing" Film To Kids
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Last week, a UK court lowered the boom on liberal school teachers and ruled that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth “. . . does promote ‘artisan political views“ and “11 inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.”
At last . . . now maybe the U.S. education system will follow the [...]
Collapse Of Responsible Affiliate Marketing
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007What does a cow have in common with Internet sausage-maker Joe “I’ll Endorse Anything For A Buck” Vitale? Keep reading and you’ll at least get a smile as you find out. And for the record, I’m udderly with the cow on this one.
This is definitely one for the “Never Piss Off The Writer” files, only this time it’s not
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Marketing The Global Warming Monologue
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007What do you call a debate when only one side gets to talk? Uh-huh. It’s not a debate anymore, is it? Remember Gore declaring “The debate is over!“? Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University faculty took it to heart and made viewing
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Marketing The REAL "Secret" - Lifting The Face Off
Thursday, May 17th, 2007If Common Sense fled the scene 2 years ago, then it returned with a vengence when copywriting legend Clayton Makepeace wrote this hilarious take on “The Secret.” It’s good to see
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Update On "The Secret" Study
Saturday, November 18th, 2006Following up on the previous post about “Mr. Fire’s” fantastical and frankly, imaginative claim. It ain’t over yet folks. If you’re late to the party, catch up by clicking here to read it.
But there are larger implications for us all, when two high profile figures in the self-development field make such . . . unsubstantiated [...]
Kool-Aid Man Wins Special Olympics - Oh, Yeaahh!
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006Just got a visit from the Kool-Aid Man.
Here’s the deal. When you have a blog or any type of forum on the Internet and you have some high degree of visibility, this is the kind of crap you have to put up with. Recently, this wingnut tried to post this comment on a post I [...]
Client Exacts His Revenge
Sunday, October 1st, 2006This has to be the most creative use of the urge to get someone back.
In this case, a client who I had been hammering on to make his passive voice active took his frustration and did something creative with it.
Really. Damn. Creative.
Just click on the ad image below to read it in its entire glory. [...]
E-Lanced! Word Scrabble With Danity Kane
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006You would think in this day and age that I would never have to tell anyone this, but I do and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight.
Why should you never hire a copywriter in a third world country who’s willing to work for $10/hour?
Well, several reasons.
First being, he’s a writer in a [...]
The Finger Means I’m Serious**
Monday, September 25th, 2006I wish I could remember where I came across these pictures. No political hay to hash here. Just good clean fun.
It’s always educational to watch a marketing campaign go horribly, horribly wrong. Sometimes that’s just as informative as watching a good one click off by the numbers.
In this case, we’re watching Bill Clinton’s campaign to try to [...]