Call it “Pissing Strange.” It’s not the rock musical Mother Jones magazine calls it
Archives for February 2008
Is Ralph a Spoiler? Or Are We a Banana Republic?
The day after CNN reported that None of the above, “Go, Ralph, Go!” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Milton Glaser ♥ Information, Not Persuasion
The 79-year-old graphic designer perhaps most famous for creating the “Where the Truth Lies,” organized by the The Graduate Center, CUNY. “Beliefs must be held lightly because certainty can be the enemy of truth.” Propaganda “substitutes an alien authority for our own perception,” he said, adding that “the intersection of fear and persuasion has created […]
May We Remind You?
In “Vietnam Redux,” points out, “Now, as then, [the] generals are leading us down the primrose path.” But this kind of news, as Powers says, “gets lost in the noise of other news.” You know: “Obama and the Clintons. The mortgage crisis. Sports. The Hollywood writers’ strike. The Clintons. The weather. Obama. Celebrities in trouble. […]
‘Ganda Bash
Big “Where the Truth Lies.” Keynoter: Topics include: How American Presidents Persuade the Public to Go to War. “It is not war that Americans hate, but, rather, unsuccessful wars,” says Eugene Secunda, a marketing and media prof at NYU, per the release. He explains why a majority of Americans “are more than willing to buy […]
Our Subprime War
Whenever I read or hear about the success of the surge, I substitute the phrase bribes to the tribes. Those four little words make a world of difference, and they go back a long way — viz. President With His Head Up His Ass boasting about our bribes to the tribes. He brags instead, lengthy […]