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July 6, 2004
Joshua Green wrote an interesting and insightful piece regarding the current state of political advertisements.
Here is an example of an ad by a media consultant he refers to, based in Pittsburgh.
Another spin here. I've often wondered why they're so predictable. The Atlantic gives us a glimpse into poly. ad history and, quite possibly, its future.
posted by BlueTrain at 9:51 PM PST - 8 comments
Illegally imprison children for 13 years, make them do degrading things, deny them food to the point of degrading them further, force them as teenagers to wear diapers, tie them up, even give them mental problems! Get 9 months in a prison yourself. That's an expense rate of just about 17 : 1! Why not come to Canada and enjoy these exceedingly low rates today before they're gone?
posted by shepd at 8:41 PM PST - 55 comments
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that
Israel is on the verge of a civil war. The Israeli Knesset held an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss the
growing threat of violence and anti-government assassinations--but this time, the anti-Sharon and anti-Likud threats are from
the Israeli Right, not Left.
Angry settlers (who are about to become
ex-settlers), egged on by a few
extremist rabbis, oppose Israel's disengagement and pullout plan from Gaza (which is already underway) and the West Bank:
"The General Security Service (GSS) believes that the next assassin of an Israeli Prime Minister is already here and is looking for an opportunity to strike. "This is not an academic possibility anymore. The danger is clear and present. A small core of settlers believes that Sharon is disengagement, and disengagement is Sharon, and they want to stop him," a GSS official told Channel 1 TV. "There are people who have already taken the decision that, come the day they are going to 'save Eretz Israel, that they are going to kill the PM or a minister, a defense official or a policeman." Ironically, the only people who oppose the pullout/disengagement plan even more than the settlers are Palestinians,
who oppose it 65% to 34% in a new poll, down from a previous support of 73% in February. [more inside]
posted by Asparagirl at 2:27 PM PST - 46 comments
Croatian Properties for Sale Charming little places for charming big prices. I've never been to Croatia, but I wouldn't have guessed that a 1,600 sq. foot apartment would go for $650,000... Is all of eastern Europe so expensive?
posted by Irontom at 11:00 AM PST - 14 comments
Mindguard ... protects your mind by actively jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:11 AM PST - 11 comments
In My Place. Brent posted a link on his blog today to an "ongoing, unfinished series of journal entries [he's been writing] since testing positive for hiv last year". I'm taking the entries one at a time, as they're poignant... so I've not yet read through them all. It's a brave thing... brave and beautiful.
God speed Brent, and I hope that your sharing will touch the hearts of those who suffer alone.
posted by silusGROK at 8:08 AM PST - 6 comments
That most peculiar of spectacles the
Fiesta de san Fermín (Running of the Bulls) seems to still exist and will be going ahead tomorrow. The event is held in parallel with
Feria del Toro (the Bullfighting Fair); the run itself seems to be in the interests of transporting the bulls to the fair while getting them good and
angry, confused, scared and weakened in the process. Being that the event is in honor of
Saint Fermín, when the
San Fermín church strikes 8am, the bulls are released and the runners get underway, trying to avoid them on their
just under 1km trip. On arrival at the Plaza del Toro (Bullring) they are herded into corrals and later released so the crowd can watch the matadors kill them in traditional bullfighting fashion
[wmv: 380k | 150k | 56k]. Of course, many people are
not really so keen on this event; and it seems
PETA will be holding one of their typically
daft protests.
Can't people just
throw tomatoes at each other or something?
posted by ed\26h at 3:48 AM PST - 7 comments
