An activist doctors’ group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine plans to launch this ad nationally very soon. I don’t like to defend McDonald’s. I don’t eat there. I’m afraid of clowns. But does anyone else feel like this ad might actually be kind of “outrageous and misleading,” as McDonald’s reps have dismissively stated? […]
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Good Morning from Moses, the Sinkhole Camel
Usually, the area surrounding our NE Portland office is pretty dull, no offense to the beloved Club 21. But this morning I exited my car to see across the street in the KATU parking lot, MOSES THE FAMOUS OREGON CITY SINKHOLE CAMEL! He was so excited to see me that he peed! And he was […]
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Insensitive Broadcasting Quip of the Day
The danger of improvising on a live feed… This video must be watched from start to finish for the whole effect. Inappropriate Simile – watch more funny videos Via Funny or Die.
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Beware the Attack Tribune!
I tried to go read this article about bikes bikes bikes on the Portland Tribune site and instead received this threatening notice: “Of the 178 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 114 pages resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this […]
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Maybe Apple Will Get Newspaper Subscriptions Right, This Time
According to the Mercury News, Apple is on the verge of announcing a new subscription model system for newspapers on the iPad: Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profits as media companies struggle with declining print […]
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“Dying polar bear travels thousands of miles to thank man for buying an electric Nissan.”
That’s how Copyranter synopsizes the following ad, rightly identified as “an absolutely outrageously manipulative insensitive hubristic piece of Green advertising bullshit.” Enjoy!
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When Lars Attacks: Independence Day is Racist
You don’t have to look all the way to Koran-burning in Florida to find crazies. Just listen to this excerpt of local talk radio host Lars Larson sounding off about Beaverton hosting a Mexican Independence celebration. Brief quote of the long, unbearable rant: I’ve had a lot of Latinos emailing me saying that an awful […]
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Blogger Asks: Is the Acid-Attack Victim Conning Us?
Vancouver Police The Voice asks: Does this woman exist? A lengthy piece posted yesterday by the Vancouver Voice, written by contributor Marcus Griffith, has a very controversial headline: “Caustic Questions Surround Acid Attack.” It’s about the apparently tragic tale of Bethany Storro, the young woman whose face was burned with acid in downtown Vancouver, allegedly […]
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Sam Adams Won’t Say It, So We Will: John Canzano is Kind of a Dick
Even at this morning’s city council meeting, Mayor Sam Adams couldn’t escape the idiocy of sportswriter John Canzano and his ill-timed rantings about the departure of the Portland Beavers. Citizen Charles E. Long sat down across from the council and proceeded to read some of the choicer lines from Canzano’s Monday Oregonian column into the […]
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How 9/11 Could’ve Been Avoided…
…according to this ad in a French magazine. The twin towers should have been shorter, DUH!! Jesus Christ, World Trade Center architects! Did you not ANTICIPATE terrorists could hijack some planes and kill all those people? (By the way, the architects of this ad can go fuck themselves.) Via
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Mailbox Mixup: A Letter for the Willamette Week
So this letter came in an envelope addressed to the Willamette Week, but with our street address. Maybe it’s intended for both of us. Either way I don’t think it’s from anyone’s “Grama.” Dear WW: You probably won’t print this but I feel I have to interject. Young people are correct in having fun while […]
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American Hate: Then and Now
In a post titled “Our Classy History,” Armagideon Time published a real letter that a real human being sent to Life Magazine on the topic of interracial marriage: So what I’m wondering is: Is it progress that our most ignorant, small-minded citizens are no longer threatening murder-suicide in national publications, and that they choose to […]