Melo's comment on ceebs' blog leaps to mind. The discussion being about the impact of bio-fuel on food and energy costs combined:
"car eats our food, we can't eat oil.
car wins, game over"
Ideally, if someone could get this line to some of the writers on Saturday Night Live, and should the straight man give it a proper set-up, it could be devastating.
If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
The Emperor Has No Growth
the opportunities for constructive satire kinda jump off the screen with this one...
what we need are great graphics. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
not always in the mood, but your idea would make a great cartoon.
i was thinking more along the lines of deconstructing the viagrafication of masculinity. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
deconstructing the viagrafication of masculinity.
Laudable goal that! However I fear it would require the purchase of time for public, (pubic?), service announcements. My solution would be to place a 100% tax on all drug advertisements. 25% would go to such counter Pharma advertisments. The remainder would go to Medicade. I don't know how it works over there. Is prime time commercial TV viagrafied? How about running counter adds, how poorly the stuff works, featuring a computer generated "sprite" of Berlusconi? Two birds with one stone? Make that a kidney stone please. Such an ad would be the political equivalent of a kidney stone for good ole' S.B. (Has he got his initials backwards?) If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
wot's next, thunk i, another one to help remind you to take that one?
who said perpetual motion was impossible?
something else that may amuse you: here in yurp rupert murdoch has kindly provided us with access to the much lauded fox news (we distort, you deride) channel.
it is wonderful enough to see the ollie north show, hannity, and o'reilly, but in the c.5 minutes per 15 devoted to commercials in the usa, we used to get a world weather loop, now we get little nuggets, a ridiculously large proporton of which are about: (sit down before reading further)
natural remedies, solar energy, all kinds of green stories, herbal lore.
go figure...
to imagine the kind of mind that could sit through fox programming interspersed with pharma ads....
can't. go. there.
steven king time The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
if i was living stateside, i wouldn't need to watch fox, it'd be happening right outside the window!
but i would read the economist, not because i think their mission is noble, but because they write the densest coverage.
dense both ways!
frothy fox or turgid economist, pretty much the same agenda... The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
