Does this mean their incessant commercials with a booming voice that heralds big volume discounts have come to an end as well? I hope so.
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PETA to Ben & Jerry's: Use human milk
Posted by – 9/24/08
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
What? This story is definitely 6 months and 9 days early.
Finally
Posted by – 9/8/08
So this might be a bit of a fluff piece, but frankly, if you’re going to do a story on a political candidate’s family, fluff is the way to go. Get hard hitting when you’re talking about their record.
A Navy Seal's Thoughts on Conflict
Posted by – 9/5/08
On a flight to Norfolk a few months back, I sat near a former Navy Seal. In speaking with him, I gathered these somewhat scattered thoughts: The media has turned actual, substantive drama into entertainment. Wars will always occur; there will always be those that are unsatisfied with their current level of attainment. Someone will always be beating the drum. If two dogs are fighting, does one simply walking away end it? Or would the dogs still fight?
Me: “But the Scandinavian countries don’t really seem to have a target on them.”
Former Seal: “Horse shit.”
New! Polls!
Posted by – 9/4/08
Since the blog is starting to get more traffic, I thought I’d add a way for more people to get involved without having to comment. You can be sure most of my polls will be slathered in smarminess. See the following:
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.Scandal-gate
Posted by – 9/2/08
I propose a moratorium on adding the suffix “gate” to words to declare a scandal. It’s just lazy journalism, and most of the time it doesn’t sound intriguing. Monicagate? Rathergate? Troopergate? Bristolgate? I know I’m not original in this thought, so who’s with me?
(Note that Troopergate refers to Bill Clinton using Arkansas State Troopers to procure him some tasty ladies, not to the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal.)
AT&T Continues to Impress…
Posted by – 8/21/08
So I call up AT&T yesterday to get an explanation for exactly why they have yet to issue me a correct bill for my phone since I signed my contract with them in May. Unlike the last few times I’ve called, I didn’t have to push that hard this time to get her to drop the bill by $124.88 to the correct amount. (How amazingly askew is that, by the way?)
When my business partner and I looked into the new iPhone and crunched some numbers on how to structure our plan, we found that going the family plan route would save us $10 on unlimited texting, among other things. Unlimited texts for individual phones was $20 each, or $30 for all phones on the iPhone family plan. Or so their very clear pricing structure would lead you to believe.
“No, it doesn’t work that way, sir. That’s for normal phones, not the new iPhone. It’s $20 each line.”
“Well then please explain to me how it does work because I just read to you the text plan pricing verbatim from the Answers to Common Questions section of the iPhone 3G page.”
“I don’t know, but I can tell you that it doesn’t apply to the new iPhone. It didn’t apply to the old iPhone either, so I don’t know why they do that.”
“Well, you might want to let Corporate know, because it’s right here in pretty plain language on the iPhone 3G site, and I don’t see how I could possibly be misunderstanding it. Seems like false advertisement to me.”