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Mad? Buy Things!

People today: they're all angry! There's taxes, politics—hell, the little man is getting screwed left and right! Corporate America understands and empathizes with your anger, and would like to encourage you to channel it into the constructive area of commerce. “On some fundamental level everyone’s sick of everything, economically, politically,” says one ad agency exec. Fortunately, skilled advertisers are able to take this vague and unsubstantiated insight into your psyche and put it to use by making just the type of ads that you want to see: angry ones! Just look: More »

9:26 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,761 views, 32 comments

Latest by BowlingAlleyLawyer: All we need is some Orbit gum, you son of a biscuit-eating bulldog. and pickle you, kumquat! more »

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Economy's Innocent Victims: Weird Ads

Sure, the current dicey economic climate has reduced America to nation of terrified food hoarders. But more importantly, it has cost us some of our annoying and unnecessarily strange advertising icons: Applebee's Wanda Sykes-voiced talking apple, and a bunch of guys running around in bizarre red pigtail wigs on behalf of Wendy's. Take a moment to mourn them. "Both campaigns were meant to attract younger diners," the Times reports. But they failed, because kids aren't doing as many drugs these days, I guess. The companies' new advertising strategy? "Hey, look at our food." More »

9:42 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,691 views, 20 comments

Latest by DigitalVersicolor: @Priam: a Dalek with an american accent is just wrong wrong wrong. more »

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Epstein Vic Lawyer Promises Live Nude Lawsuits

William Unroch, nutty lawyer of alleged Jeffrey Epstein rape victim Maximilia Cordero, insists his client (accused by the New York Post of closet transsexualism) was born a woman. And today he emails New York's Daily Intelligencer to offer a HOT NUDE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE. More »

3:50 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Pareene
1,447 views, 36 comments

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A Letter From The Epstein Accuser's Lawyer

When we informed you yesterday of the lawsuit against the New York Post brought by Maximilia Cordero—the woman who might have been born a man (but she says not!) and who might have been raped by "billionaire financier" Jeffrey Epstein when she was underage—we apparently made some mistakes, according to her lawyer and live-in ex-boyfriend, William Unroch. Unroch wrote us yesterday to request a clarification, and his letter is posted below. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Nov 27 2007
By Pareene
3,262 views, 79 comments