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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Can Preschoolers be Depressed?
Above, the link to the 25 August 2010 NY Times Magazine article that seriously questions whether or not preschoolers can be clinically depressed. Can you see the collective saliva forming in the jowls of big pharma? Just when you thought … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, big pharma, commercials, cymbalta, depression, depression hurts, mad men, madison avenue, marketing, prozac, psychology
Tagged advertising, big pharma, brainwashing, cymbalta, depression, depression hurts, prozac, psychology
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Moose Offer Trail of Clues On Arthritis
New York Times, August 17 2010 So the important thing to make note of here is not the fact that the moose in this study are suffering from arthritis due to malnutrition and to make a plan to remedy. The … Continue reading
Posted in animals, earth first, environment, HSUS, humane action, nature, wildlife
Tagged animal issues, moose, wildlife problems
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Free To Be You And Me
Youtube has gotten over 32,000 hits asking “What is that song???” – the bright and inspirational little number that Target is currently using in their back-to-school media blitz. Here is the Ad The song is the first four lines of … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, commercials, industry, mad men, madison avenue, marketing, spin
Tagged co-opting, coke, Free to be You And Me, MS. Foundation, sixties, Target
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“A Masterpiece of Nature? Yuck!”
New York Times, August 11, 2010 OH, MY The star-nosed mole, to humans, “is disturbing because it looks like the animal has no face,” a neuroscientist says by Natalie Angier (click here to send Natalie your message) Even Dennis Leary, … Continue reading
Kittens, puppies, pandas, baby seals and bears
The background music plays, “Dreams” and the opening gambit is a sequence of shots of baby animals sleeping. It is not hard to imagine the “brainstorming” meeting that produced this ad. “Let’s use kittens” says one marketing madman, “And puppies!” … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, animals, chomsky, commercials, environment, humane action, mad men, madison avenue, marketing, wildlife
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Mayor Bloomberg’s House, Monday night. 6pm. Be There…
The USDA wants to kill another 200,000 NYC area Canada Geese. (CNN clip here). Conservation groups have ironically labeled this, “managing” as “managing to extinction.” Go to Mayor Bloomberg’s house Monday night. Here’s the skinny… The mayor told the Wall Street … Continue reading
oh wait, there’s a monkey…
UPDATE: After Peta and public reaction (negative) to using an animal (chimpanzee) dressed in a monkey-suit and forced to mime setting off an explosion, Dodge Caravan promised to pull the ad. The new ad appears, exactly the same, this time … Continue reading
Posted in animals, commercials, environment, HSUS, humane action, I Am Only Human, monkeys, wildlife
Tagged alligators, animal cruelty, bear-baiting, oh wait, Reality TV, there's a monkey, TRUTV
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