Pew Research Center: Social Segregation - A 2007 Pew Research survey found that while a large majority of Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites (45%), blacks (35%) and Hispanics (39%) say they have "just a few" friends of a different race. About a third...

Well, in case you skipped over the previous post this evening , you can see we have revived The Garlic Weekly Poll. And, why not come in, with our sleeves rolled up, at the ready to pitch in and do our part. It hasn't been especially easy for President Obama to fill his cabinet . Additionally, there...

The economy is 'sploding so that means it's infomercial mating season. Prices for airtime are dropping as bigger advertisers pull their spots, so the Billy Mays of the world are now getting slots during 30 Rock commercial breaks. At the same time, more people are watching TV because they don't have ...

I've written about this fast-talking ShamWow! fucker before. This con man's cultural connectivity to the fraudulent culture that is Obama and his deluded disciples is obvious. Obvious in the sense that it doesn't matter what either of these two dipshits say - it only matters how they say it. Yep. Th...

Recent musings on the ubiquitous commercials for ShamWow! (and really, why does Bloggingheads even require those stupid headsets) inspired the Governess to ask, "WHO USES $20 WORTH OF PAPER TOWELS A MONTH? That's insane." Well, thinking on it, maybe I do? I've never really kept track but I think it'...

I’m a firm believer in the idea that anything Roland Emmerich makes a movie about is guaranteed to never, ever happen, but this year will mark the release of his latest disaster-porn epic, 2012. Granted this time around he’s decided not to use Art Bell as a scientific reference, but I...

You know what I’m talking about: those direct marketing ads that offer products you’ve never imagined (and probably don’t really need) for $19.95 (and if you call now, you’ll get two of ‘em). Every now and then, one of these catches my attention… in the sense that...

Filed under: Marketing and advertising, Scandals, Entrepreneurs, Presidential elections This post is part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst in Money 2008 feature. I am not familiar with Vince Offer so this is not a fair ranking; however, based on who got the biggest 15 minutes of fame an...

The coworker reads aloud every memo, email, etc. to themselves and has to tell me, “Oh, I’m not talking to you. I’m just thinking aloud.” I didn’t ask, OK?. People who live in Michigan, one of the snowiest states in the US, but can’t drive in 1/2″ of snow. P...

Their ad buy has obviously changed, because even though they’ve been on TV somewhere for most of 2008, all of a sudden, the Shamwow late-night TV spots are intersecting with our networks. In honoring the host of the Shamwow commercial, Vince Offer, with October’s ‘Gamey’, we ...