Archives for the 'Politics' Category
Short Post on Ad Juxtaposition: Jack Kemp Obit with Facebook, BlackBerry
News of former GOP stalwart Jack Kemp’s passing after a long bout with cancer hit yesterday, and this morning I clicked a link to an article about this on Time.com and found a banner ad for the new Facebook application on BlackBerry taking up the prominent 3 o’clock position. I took a big screenshot that [...]
Do All Business Strategy Books Suck?
What explicit business strategy books have you read lately (or ever) that were worthwhile and why were they worthwhile?
Tough Luck, NYPost.com… & Revisiting “Bush or Chimp”
Are advertisers and readers online and off zooming away from The New York Post and www.nypost.com because of the kerfluffle over an editorial cartoon that stupidly (in so many ways) compared President Obama to a chimpanzee? Certainly, that’s the worry: after the Reverend Al Sharpton — smelling blood and never able to stop swimming — [...]
Scary-but-funny site: PalinAsPresident.us
In a short link-chain between Steve Rubel’s Twitter stream and Mark Silva’s that feeds into his Facebook profile (I’m not a twitterer) I ran across the new, satirical PalinAsPresident.us this morning. It’s worth a look: make sure your speakers are turned on and mouse over everything in sight. This has been around for a couple [...]
Has David Brooks lost his mind?
Check out this line of nonsense from David Brooks’ latest New York Times column: Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive. But no American politician plays the class-warfare card as constantly as Palin. Nobody so relentlessly divides the world between the “normal Joe Sixpack American” and the [...]
