Few run for President on a set of promises to the people which they then insist on keeping once they are elected, with such conviction that it then helps them lose re-election. It was an important storyline underlining the phenomena which… Read More ›
Yesterday, it was learned that The Silversun Pickups directed its attorney to request that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stop using its song “Panic Switch,” as a campaign song, for political reasons. In the last quarter of a century, this… Read More ›
It wasn’t long after Mother’s Day had begun that Father’s Day was sure to follow. In fact the first holiday directly inspired the second. And like the first, it was a woman who got i off the ground. On Mother’s… Read More ›
How I missed including this one of the Christmas Crazy Target Lady (aka Christmas Champ as Target titles her ) I don’t know, but it’s too good to just insert into the longer article about her in the previous post,… Read More ›
Cupid symbolizes Valentine’s Day. Easter has its Bunny. And now its official: The Crazy Target Lady is Black Friday. Since 2009, Target has well-targeted those shoppers anticipating the big holiday sales who skip Thanksgiving to stand in line for upwards… Read More ›
What many may think fuels Mother’s Day today is what seems to have fueled one woman to crusade for its creation – and then its destruction. Guilt. Never a mother herself, the “mother” of Mother’s Day, Miss Anna Jarvis, ninth… Read More ›
Lockheed Martin’s Fifties Monorail for swift, quiet getting about town. Whether or not it was timed for Earth Day, word came this week that Lost Angeles will begin reconstructing the world premier mass transit system it destroyed a half-century ago,… Read More ›
There was never a better time ahead in the past than the future as seen from the Jet Age, that slice of powder blue optimism running from about 1957 to 1965. Kids would fly to school with jetpacks and moving… Read More ›
The more wildly inaccurate the implication, the more ingenuous the television commercial. This morning, I saw one American classic product, Clorox brand bleach, sell itself by exploiting an American classic persona, Martha Washington. Here is a link to the commercial. Instead… Read More ›
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