Are You Kidding Me?
When consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, or television, or anywhere else, federal law says that ad must be truthful, not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence...
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Who Buys These Lies?
There is no end to the takes, fakes, and rakes confronting us every second, minute, and hour of every day. On air “personalities” reading stuff somebody has made up sometimes promoting with dumb ass...
Whose Idea Was It?
Naming COVID variants and tracking them like hurricanes? Paying millions of dollars to people who speak and live in platitudes, sermons, and horses#!T? Listening to wannabee influencers with names like MayCay, Doobie, and Hal?...
Words That Anger
The Rooney Rule is a National Football League (NFL) policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. The rule is named after Dan Rooney, the former...
Non Compos Mentis
Used to describe someone who is out of his or her mind and therefore not legally responsible for his or her actions, the phrase provides a cover for modern advertisers, influencers, and dissipaters. Consider...
Stop Insulting Artificial Intelligence Users
The White House recently brought seven companies together to make a series of voluntary promises to protect artificial intelligence (AI) users. The companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI — have...
Nothing but Nil
What a mess. People pampered on so many levels from an early age and given a free ride to some of the best and worst colleges and universities in the country were perceived by...
Talk about Talking about Nil
Dear Weather People No manner of body gyrating, posturing, or pleading will make the predictions represented by the pretty colors on the display come true or convince anybody that despite all the times you...
One Day in September
When Tony read something that sounded fishy, he made a note of it for continuing consideration. Here are a few from a day in September: When Sloppy Joe was VPOTUS, he used multiple email...
That’s a Lie
A report on a silly TV news station found that on average, more than half of Americans have lied, at least once, about their personal details, skills, experience, or references on their resumes.[1]Ed: That...
