todays topic for discussion is fashion advertising campaigns particularly controversial ones. do you feel these are justified in the interests of promoting a brand no news is bad just spell my name right or do some cross the line between marketing and malfeasance do you think that some campaigns diminish the reputation of apparel producers among consumers in that some of us fail to exercise good t...
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totally awesome dimensions nine chapters two hours of maths that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. mathematical vertigo guaranteed hattip quixote read the comments on this post.........
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a wide range of opinions melissa mcewan biden and shocker women less enthusiastic than men about biden melissa mcewan obamas small change jesse taylor obamabiden ezra klein winning the argument joe trippi stay loose joe stay loose see the comment thread on the intersection obama picks joe biden and also its 3am and joe bidens giving foriegn policy advice to barack obama john l...
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decisions are made by those who show up. since the state department is responsible for promoting peace and stability in regions of vital interest the secretary of state has to show up in a region to promote diplomacy there. the travels of a secretary of state thus reflects the foreign policy priorities of a government. data from all the countries that current secretary of state condeleeza rice ha...
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es ist nichts neues daa opfern von vergewaltigung vorgeworfen wird sie seien in gewisser weise selbst schuld weil sie alkohol getrunken haben. und obwohl es so unglaublich offensichtlich hanebachen ist scheint diese meinung noch immer verdammt popular zu sein. meist wird das nur mehr oder weniger transparent angedeutet was an und far sich schon ekelhaft genug ist. aber immer mal wieder taucht jema...
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i think advertising may have hit its new low. seriously were these ads designed by a serial killer are the french consumers of this ad really a bunch of necrophiliacs what the hell and no before anyone even brings it up im not buying that the animals in these ads are the women being all dangerous and stuff. the palid skin the vague sense of decomposition it screams death. and then theres this a...
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when youre part of something extraordinary and wonderful like that you think ah this is maybe why i went into the movies in the beginning. i thought it would be full of wonderful people. and in our case weve got a movie full of wonderful people who did extraordinary things to help. director terry gilliam on the decision of johnny depp colin farrell and jude law to donate their salaries from gilli...
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melissa mcewan of shakesville on lol your ugly so theres this woman bernann mckinney who was recently in the news for paying to have five puppies cloned from her dearly departed pet pit bull. thing is she is likely the same person as a woman known as joyce .........
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mccain campaign complained that media is not covering him before they complained that media is covering him. another example of a debate between john mccain and john mccain well when you have a bad product it is best not to have it reviewed. there is a reason why crappy movies are not shown to critics before they are released in theaters. mccain can win if he never ever shows up on tv between n...
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ive been mentally putting together a post about a host of things trans panic defences deception victim blaming and all the issues thatve been swirling around my head in the wake of the angie zapata murder. im not quite there yet but theres been a few excellent things written over the last couple of days however making some really excellent and sometimes overlooked points when were talking about t...
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phoenix woman details the fun with partisanship that the rnc is engaging in. long story short mnindy isnt evenhanded enough to get a press credential but swiftee is. ah the gop endorsing the guy who once told me to kill myself and who attacked robin marty using the sonogram of her beautiful daughter saying the image was fair game. id say more but its so predictable it almost doesnt warrant comme...
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the good vigilante justice taking the law into your own hands is tempting when you see wrongdoing and no one doing anything about it. many people who consider vigilante justice do so because they dont see the police taking action or dont see the police taking them seriously. in this new age the age of camera phones dvd records the size of your palm and youtube it is no surprise that vigilantes are...
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the song thats been stuck in my head for the past few weeks is fire and rain by james taylor i think the first time i heard that song or at least the first time i remember hearing and thinking about the words to that song was when i was few summers out of high school. i was with a group of friends and we were on our way out to the lake for swimming and general mischief. my niece debbie who died...
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i started to write a quick post about a good oped in todays new york times about a good oped in the new york times today about gender and the olympics. apparently the chinese olympic host committee is planning on instituting gender testing for female athletes. the olympic hosts seem to want to impose a binary order upon the messy continuum of gender. they are searching for concreteness and certain...
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george lucas frozen in carbonite shakesville and ive got the red spanked ass to prove it al gore places infant son in rocket to escape dying planet i tried to warn them but the elders of this planet would not listen said gore bikini du jour a2a linknamelinks for 20080731 a2a linkurlhttpwww.oliverwillis.com20080731linksfor20080731......
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pajiba love following the tremendous response for the need for some kind of zombie threat level advisory system our own sarina has taken it upon herself to start a website dedicated to keeping us informed. zombieforecast in the longstanding dispute as to who popularized the trucker hat there are no winners only douchebags who need a the shit kicked out of them. wimb textingrelated deaths a ser...
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apparently tim kaine is the flavor of the day in the veepstakes game and its hard to tell whether all those leaks are by people surrounding kaine or by the obama campaign floating a trial balloon. in the latter case here are my two cents dont pick kaineapart from the fact that hes well inexperienced 2 12 years as governor there are simply better choices if you want a governor.what really pisses me...
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one of the best local blogospheres in the country virginias emerged in 2005 out of the draft clark campaign. lowell feld started the site raising kaine to support tim kaine for governor since kaine was seen as a successor to mark warner a democrat who had governed effectively and progressively in the state. kaine eventually won the race and then the virginia netroots and feld went on to help jim...
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i was horrified as i know all of you were by the shooting at tennessee valley unitarian universalist congregation in knoxville. there will be time somewhere down the road to contemplate the level of hatred that could motivate one human being to attack and murder others over a difference in political philosophy. right now id like to share with you a firstperson account written by bekitty a regula...
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when this hit my inbox i thought it was a bad joke shes plump powerful and ready to cause more controversy than supersize me. shes fat princess the star of sonys upcoming video game of the same name. debuting at last weeks e3 expo the colorful fat princess is a capturetheflag game with a twist you can thwart capture attempts by locking the oncethin princess in a dungeon and stuffing her full o...
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when this hit my inbox i thought it was a bad joke shes plump powerful and ready to cause more controversy than supersize me. shes fat princess the star of sonys upcoming video game of the same name. debuting at last weeks e3 expo the colorful fat princess is a capturetheflag game with a twist you can thwart capture attempts by locking the oncethin princess in a dungeon and stuffing her full o...
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fat princessoriginally uploaded by mo pie the furor over the game fat princess has finally hit the mainstream media and its long past time i wrote about it here. after all back in those halcyon days when i had spare time i used to play video games these days my husband and one of my best friends work for a video game company. so whats the story in a nutshell fat princess is a capturetheflag game w...
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i think we have to understand that violence always happens in a context. the context for these killings was set by rush limbaugh and his compatriots by businesses that sponsor hate radio and by those who regularly listen to and support these programs. because such talk is on the radio sponsored by legitimate companies it must be credible many will conclude. and it is then a small step for some who...
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an overlooked detail in yesterdays terrible shooting at the tennessee valley unitarian universalist church in knoxville tennessee is that one of the heroes who tackled the shooter is utknoxville historian john bohstedt.a according to the new york times bohstedt jumped on shooter jim d. adkissonawhile he paused to reload in spite of theaotheradangersabohstedt and the other congregantsamight have fa...
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