KIA: Cars for Creeps? Company Claims Brazilian Agency’s Ad Was Unauthorized
Ace of Spades headlined this: “Kia Motors: Our New Cars Are As Hot As Sex With Very Young Children!” — which obviously isn’t a message the Korean automaker intended to send. Jim Edwards of CBS business news headlined the story, “Kia’s Pedophile Ad Campaign Illustrates Everything Wrong With the Ad Business.” You will perhaps not […]
Expecting the Unexpected
The media have nearly warn out an adverb — “Unexpectedly!” — in describing bad economic news in the past two years. So what should we expect when we read a sentence that begins like this? “Few economists are predicting an out-and-out return to recession, but . . .” Which prompts concerns for the Lonely Conservative: Um, are […]
Euro-Doom Looming?
The Standard & Poor 500 this week suffered its seventh week of losses in the past eight weeks, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average again closed below 12,000 on Friday. The problem? In a word, Europe: “Everybody is trying to digest how the European debt situation is going to shake out,” said Jason Pride, director […]
Good News: College Democrats Succeed in Recruiting Stupid Ugly Losers! (Video)
Hard to believe, but this is not a parody: COLLEGE DEMOCRATS Not Just Incoherent, But Unattractive, Too! UPDATE: While the idiocy of the “reasons” cited in the video should be self-evident, a College Republican has taken the time to do a point-by-point rebuttal. Thanks to commenter Sybill for the tip.
The Beast of Babylon Wears Bangs: Amanda Marcotte’s ‘Pure Feminist Evil’
“I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication […]
Legalize Fireworks Now!
Maine’s York County Journal Tribune editorializes in support of a pending bill that would legalize consumer fireworks in that state, to which I say not merely yes, but hell, yes! Consumer (1.4G) fireworks are much safer today than in the 1960s, when most state fireworks bans were passed. Back then, the great danger was M-80s […]
Equality Über Alles, New York
Can mere words suffice to describe it? ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born. The bill was approved on a 33-to-29 […]
Democrats: The Warmonger Party
Today, 149 Democrats voted against defunding Obama’s Illegal War™ in Libya. Our nation now awaits the onset of Code Pink peace protests against such bloodthirsty imperialist warmongers as Nancy Pelosi, Raul Grijalva and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. U.S. forces will continue their effort to kill Moammar Qaddafi. White House spokesman H.R. Haldeman strenuously denied reports that President […]
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