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Ah, the murky world of disinformation.This is by far the strangest, most confusing marketing centrifuge I’ve ever encountered. The authors of this graf-ad are either legit artists posing as marketers who are posing as cops, or they are cops posing as marketers who are fronting as graf writers. Read the article below for all the [...]

“The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favour of his image,
because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.”
Marshall McLuhan

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Talk about ignorant! They totally neglected Liza Minnelli and Diana Ross. Ted Nugent? Oh, the nerve! List recommendations can be sent to donniedavies@gmail.com. Snap!
Love God’s Way:
One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their children’s listening habits, especially in this Internet Age [...]

The Nation magazine makes a strong point (link is for subscribers only, sorry!):
For the Republic:
World opinion is against it. The American people are against it. The Democratic Party is against it. The Congress of the United States is against it. The Iraq Study Group is against it. The Iraqi people are against it. The Iraqi [...]

Not that Clark! Former counterterrorism czar, Richard Clark, has written a sci-fi thriller that apparently is loaded with grounded futurism. I listened to a fascinating interview with him on the Diane Rehm radio program. If you click below you can listen to the hour-long segment. I haven’t read Breakpoint yet, but it sounds like good [...]

Heineken sky writing over Brooklyn, photo by Antonio Lopez
Some amazing media facts and a history of product placement benchmarks from MotherJones.com, including this clunker: “Advertisers spend more than $12 billion a year marketing to kids. The average American child is exposed to 40,000 ads per year.” Read on…
Ad Nauseam
Madison Avenue is scrambling to stick [...]

Prep yourselves for tonight’s State of the Union address with the link below. Why does this remind me of the Russian Tzar on the eve of his collapse in 1917?
Campaign for America’s Future :: SOTU:
State of the Union - By the Numbers
In his 2007 State of the Union address, President Bush will hail the state [...]

Photo by Antonio Lopez
This is a rather insane project, but someone had to do it. Some crazy (obsessed?) blogger took the time to photograph all the ads in Times Square. I’m not sure how he/she defines the area- it’s like an amorphous slim mold that grows and shrinks according to edible eye balls, but it’s [...]

The Raw Story | Rep. believes Democratic media reform bill may prevent possible ‘fascist’ takeover of US media:
Concerns about monopolies and fears of a possible “fascist” takeover of the US media have prompted a Democratic congressman to push to restore the Fairness Doctrine, RAW STORY has learned.
“Media reform is the most important issue confronting our [...]

Image: Hungry ghost of Buddhist lore
No Photoshopping this one out. Apparently when it comes to porn, it appears that one of the unintended negatives of HD is that it brings viewers a little too close to the action. This is pretty funny. One of the methods Buddha gave for reducing the sex drive of monks [...]

I’ve been putting off writing about the Butthole Surfers because they were such intrinsic part of my life during the ’80s. Yes, I was a butthead. The problem is that there are too many stories to tell. But of all the memories, the one that sticks out is when the San Francisco fire dept. [...]

While I agree with the sentiment of this Second LIfe parody (it makes a fine point about being engaged with your physical reality), I still think it’s a false dichotomy to say one world is real and the other is virtual. It’s all real, and what happens in computer space and non-electronic space influence and [...]

This is worth a read:
Was Iraq War a `Blunder’ or Was It Treason?:
If the war they started had ended quickly with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, that would have served their purposes, at least for the short term. Bush would have emerged from a short invasion and conquest a national hero, would have handily won [...]

Anywhere the Eye Can See, It’s Likely to See an Ad - New York Times:
Add this to the endangered list: blank spaces.
Advertisers seem determined to fill every last one of them. Supermarket eggs have been stamped with the names of CBS television shows. Subway turnstiles bear messages from Geico auto insurance. Chinese food cartons promote [...]

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“Every act is an animal act,” PT Barnum

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It’s about time the pop culture produced a decent dystopic cult movie. Enter Children of Men, directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mama tambien, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), a post-Baghdad, Road Warrior-type movie sans the cheesy trappings of antiseptic sci-fi. Add one part Black Hawk Down, two parts Blade Runner, [...]

Ah, human psychology is so simple, yet few people seem to escape the trappings of the ego. In some cases it’s on a historical, bloody scale. As I’ve written repeatedly, there’s a South African saying, “The dying bull kicks the most.” Here it is again in more stark terms.
Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: The [...]

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“. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already.” RAW

I’m tremendously sad to hear of the passing of Robert Anton [...]

This is via my pal Dave. Stupid Democrats are trying sneak in some really bad legislation to block you from recording digital radio. Click on the link below to take action (and if you haven’t done your good deed for the week, please do this).
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Take Action: Defend Your Right to Record Off the Radio!
January [...]