To the advertisers of Sunsweet Ones:
In your commercial, which promotes individually-wrapped prunes as a healthy snacking alternative, one woman unwraps your product, bites into it, and says, “The kids will think they’re eating candy!” I appreciate your efforts to encourage better eating habits in a country where obesity is the new bubonic plague, [...]
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False Advertising
Irony
Yesterday an advertisement for Oprah’s Bestlife Challenge 2008 (”This is your year to end the struggle with weight!”) was immediately followed by a commercial for all you can eat pancakes at IHOP.
Should I write Oprah and let her know? Do you think she would champion me and together we could crusade against WFAA-TV and IHOP? [...]
Cutting For Dummies
For those of you who didn’t master “can hold and use scissors properly” in kindergarten, there’s just the product for you. It’s the Craft-Lite Cutter. Don’t be afraid to order and admit that you lack basic motor skills — as you will see in this infomercial, someone is even more inept than you:
Dirty Politics
I’m chewing gum right now because my jaw hurts from clenching my teeth.
Why am I clenching my teeth?
Because I’m angry.
Why am I angry?
Because a dinnertime viewing of Wheel of Fortune is no longer safe from the fear mongering of our politicians. It’s no longer just the Republicans and Democrats duking it out in Washington about [...]
Teasers and Travails
“A small helicopter crashes in north Dallas with two people inside. Did they make it out alive? Find out at 9.”
Is the local nightly news so starved for viewers that they have to treat human lives as a teaser trailer for a thriller?
Speaking of thrillers (loosely), I’ve completed my first round of revisions in The [...]
