Senate Finance Committee doesn't care about black people, white people, brown people, and any other one of the 47 million uninsured.

Senate Finance Committee votes 15-8 to nix the Public Option from their Healthcare Bill.

What the fuck planet do these assbag MaGillicutties fucking live on? 47 million people are one accident, one unfortunate happenstance away from complete financial ruin, if they haven't already found themselves in that situation already. By eliminating a viable, affordable public option to compete with the insanely expensive private options, those 15 Senators are basically telling 47 million Americans to go fuck themselves. Congress is telling those 47 million Americans that their livelihood and health, their life and futures are not worth protecting.

15 Congressmen told 47 million Americans, today, that their lives are not important, and protecting those lives is not worth the cost. I am one of those 47 million people. I don't like being told my health and livelihood are not important and are not enough of a concern to find a way to pay for my medical care costs.

15 Congressmen: Go fuck yourselves. How fast would you vote differently if your child couldn't afford coverage? Probably about as quickly as you would if your child actually had to fight in the war you voted for.

Be ashamed.

Hooray!

With this news, I'll have to pretend that I don't work for Gap Brand companies. Lord knows that the CP+B dudes will dream up some knock off of their own creation....perhaps a the Gap Queen or the Clothing Republic of Bananas, fleshed out entirely with a whole bunch of d-bag looking ass hats in giant banana costumes with the Gap logo smacked onto the end of the ad. Fucking Woot.

PS

I admittedly didn't actually read this article. I just read the headline and became displeased.

Advertising Blog Part 5

Update:

No matter which script the client decides to use for the branding spot that will run in November, it will be mine. MINE! ALL MINE!

Unless they pick the one that was re-written by my creative director. Then it will be ours.

Or if they decide to scrap both of them and start from scratch. Then it will be no one's.

Here's to hoping I get to go on the shoot.

Good Read by NY Times Columnist Friedman

Take that, Congressional Losers!

This Is As Far As It Should Go.

Advertising Blog Part 4 (?)

Yeah. Dustin' off a classic. Or just updating a running theme that has been lagging.

I have an internship. Two days a week at an entertainment-marketing-ey-type advertising agency in Needham, MA (outside of Boston). It's a nifty place. Quiet. Small. Friendly. Mostly calm. Lots of cool people. Oh, and we get free bagels on Friday. One free bagel Friday and I'm hooked. Where can I sign a contract to work here?

After my first two days spent going from 0 to 120 while trying to remember how I used to sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day and trying not to spend all my time playing fetch with my boss' dog Auggie, I managed to pump out seven somewhat decent TV scripts that I presented to one of my other bosses. He picked four and had me re-write them. I re-wrote them. He picked two that are getting sent to the client. Two days. Two scripts. I may have an ad running throughout the month on November, most likely ad nauseum, during just about every televised football game on ESPN. Probably during Sportscenter and any football-related show on ESPN. I try to not watch ESPN, but if my script gets picked, I may be tuning in until I get annoyed by my own ad.

I find out this week if it was picked. There will be much dancing to be done if one of them is picked. Celebrations for all!

Clearance Rackers

There's nothing inherently wrong with shopping off the clearance racks. It makes perfect sense to save money. I like saving money. I'm pretty sure most people, except for the extremely rich who like to show off how much they don't need to save money, like to save money. I encourage all to shop off of the clearance rack.

But what one must realize is that the things on the clearance rack are on clearance for a reason. The store either got too many of them (usually XL or XXL or XXXXL) or the item is hideously ugly and only hipsters and fashionistas would be able to do anything with it. So, when you find something you like in your size, it is quite the miracle. Understood.

What is not understood by the many of us that work in retail is why the Clearance Rackers feel the need to interrupt us from whatever task we are doing to help you find your size. You know who you are: You see us diligently unpacking new shipment or constructing/deconstructing an entire display and deem your search for the skanky tube top in your color and your size far more important. You could save $3.00!

You coyly bring up said tube top and ask, "Do you have this in my size?" The only reason you are listened to is because at this point, we don't know it is clearance. We agree to check the computer, walking to the register all the while thinking of what lie we can tell you when the computer shows we have 10 of them because we know, WE KNOW you are going to ask us to help you find it. And of course, we're not allowed to say no. The computer says we have four of them (even worse), and we walk back fighting the temptation to slap you in the face. We get back, forcing a smile through our frustration, look you in the eye and lie to your face. Because we know that you'll go back and look anyway. You were just hoping that we'd have to do all the looking for you.

Yes, Clearance Rackers, we do want to kick you in the shins when you ask us to find a size in clearance because you're too lazy to look. The smile beaming from our face is fake. We hate you.

Profiling

Nod, not the fun racial kind (kidding). Now that I spend more time at work (retail clothing store) than I do at home and make less money than if I just stayed at home and clicked the mouse a few times, I've decided that I'm going to start profiling some of the wonderful people I encounter. Today, the "Fitting Room" people.

Fitting Room people tend to have a huge stack of clothes they need to try on. They seem to be moving around frantically and always in a rush, as if pressed for time, despite the fact that they have been in the store already for an hour and a half. This hurried behavior leads them to ask questions whose answers are clearly marked on signage all throughout the store. However, they have earned the title of "Fitting Room" people, because when I am standing mere feet in front of a gigantic glowing sign with the words "Fitting Rooms" and an arrow pointing in the direction of said fitting rooms hanging from the ceiling, they approach me and quickly ask, "Excuse me. Where are the fitting rooms?"

Not being allowed to just turn around and look at the sign; then look back at the person; then look back at the sign; then look back at the person; then shake my head and continue what I was doing, I reluctantly say, "Down there and to the left."

If this is you, it's not your imagination that the people who work at your local *insert chain retail store* seem condescending. They do in fact think you are an idiot.

Next Post: "Clearance Rackers"

There Truly Are Some Morons in Congress

A Congressman in South Carolina (where else) is stating that the Healthcare overhaul has nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with control, fueling ideas that the new reform will allow the government unabridged access to everyone's bank accounts (they already have that). Also, he claims that the new reform will cover illegal immigrants, which it won't.

He also seems to be a bit of a narcissistic douchebag. Kind of like the current governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, who still refuses to resign after having his extramarital affair with a woman from Argentina who is his "soul mate." Perhaps they're related.

It's Purely Political! Why Else Would Someone Investigate Criminal Activities?!

Great story about what Cheney thinks of the Justice Department investigating the torture-tactics of the CIA.

This is very relevant to me because I'm reading Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, all about how the Bush Administration knew EXACTLY what was going on, and in fact specifically outlined what was and wasn't okay for interrogations in the CIA prisons, Guantanamo and the military prisons abroad. It's also important to you because all of this was done in your name for your protection. Except that independent and military studies have shown that only about 8% of detainees at Guantanamo actually had anything to do with any sort of terrorism; that a a massive majority of the prisoners "captured" in Afghanistan were actually random people captured by Pakistani and tribesmen and turned over to the US Military in exchange for a bounty.

So yeah, thanks Cheney.