In which I propose that particularly stupid and/or offensive direct mail marketing campaigns be renamed "direct maul" campaigns

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I get that Columbia Journalism Review needs subscribers, but these are extreme tactics. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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It’s pronounced “servile” & it’s a metaphor for the current housing market (via vmarinelli)

It’s pronounced “servile” & it’s a metaphor for the current housing market (via vmarinelli)

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"This tool can only be viewed properly using Internet Explorer."
So sayeth the Walgreens Drug Pricing search engine.


Insert here some tiresome joke about toolishness which I’m too annoyed to make, especially when my IE installation is beset with trojans, Firefox is nearly as much so (it started launching spam pop-ups after IE was hit*, via one or another of its gaping security holes), and sites like this don’t function with the only browser that’s working for me, until I can reformat my entire goddamned hard drive: Google Chrome. Also, with as much pharmaceutical spam that’s out there, it is a huge pain in the ass to do legitimate research on prescription medications and their relative costs.

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* Of course, this happened when I was on some government site that also said it wouldn’t work except with IE. Fuck you Microsoft. Fuck you sites requiring IE. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. And while we’re at it, fuck you Big Pharma for flooding the media with so much propaganda about your medications it becomes difficult to obtain unbiased information about their efficacy. And fuck you, economy, for taking away my husband’s job in fucking APRIL, otherwise I would still have decent insurance and wouldn’t have had a really long night that somehow ended up like this.

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"We have one year of food PLUS, we have our gardens, we have our weapons, our bullets, our network. We are prepared. That being said, I CANNOT WAIT for the suffering to begin. I hope there is starvation, I hope there is rioting, and i hope that there is massive death…"

Just when I thought the PUMAbots couldn’t be scarier or more mind-bogglingly bizarre. This post gave me physical shudders. Just, wow.

Palin PUMA Watch - Well, it could be worse

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The McCain campaign decides that “g-droppin’” in speech isn’t stupid enough - they actually have to write it that way too! (via my flickr)

The McCain campaign decides that “g-droppin’” in speech isn’t stupid enough - they actually have to write it that way too! (via my flickr)

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This local news piece opens with the sentence:

If your Obama or McCain yard sign has been targeted, you’re not alone.

Then it goes on to report exclusively on instances of Obama signs being targeted.

McCain supporters would call this proof of the media being “in the tank” for Obama. I’m inclined to think it’s just another pathetic instance of false equivalence in campaign reporting.

While I have no doubt that somewhere, McCain campaign signs are being targeted by someone, I’m pretty sure that if the phenomenon were at all widespread, our (generally quite conservative) local media would have had no problem whatsoever finding at least one or two anecdotes to add to their report.

On our street, I have yet to see McCain signs being targeted, whereas our Obama signs were repeatedly vandalized and stolen. (By, as it turned out, an 84 year old white guy.)

So if your McCain yard sign has been targeted? (And you are not some deranged McCain supporter willing to vandalize your own signs - or your face - to make a point?) You very well might be “alone.”

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Video created by my husband (@ThunderDolt on Twitter), documenting the old white dude who has been vandalizing and/or stealing our Obama campaign signs for weeks now.

This morning, we finally got him. 87 84 isn’t too old for one’s first misdemeanor conviction, is it?

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