What is definitely a big Jewish religious and cultural thing is making sure you get buried properly.

Here’s the problem, though: there’s always been a wasted marketing opportunity for the Saturday between the crucifixion/Good Friday and the resurrection/Easter Sunday. The three days ought be a trilogy, but instead it’s just an awful beginning of torture porn and a triumphant ending that conquers death, with none of…

I’ve worked on a few Facebook ads over a couple years ago, where I’ve needed to target very specific demographics.

There’s something weird about how both Graham and Nikki Haley became the hardliners painting themselves into the corner. What do they and/or South Carolina have on the line?

I haven’t made time to read Going Clear. One thing I am really curious about: does it go into the contemporary, post-Hubbard CoS?

I don’t think they can protest their complete innocence. G.W. had an unassailable majority for several years; they could easily have worked to publicly shitcan the worst of the xenophobes like Sensenbrenner (who was active during his administration). But he didn’t. On some level, that’s really the rap on G.W. Bush: he…

Yeah, good luck with that. Below is one of many photo ID pictures used by the man who formed al-Qaeda in Iraq (the org now known as ISIS).

Big city machine politics is like that.

Having been born with one of those last names that people never get right (or even feel obliged to learn how to pronounce properly), I have fun every once in a while, thinking about the alternate universe in which Obama took the easy road and became “Barry Dunham.” He would have been entirely within protocol taking…

Jeb as a name just grates. Because the whole thing is a ploy to appeal to the bumpkin demographic that thinks “Jebediah” is a real name (note: it isn’t). But it’s really the initials of the most WASP name possible, John Ellis Bush. Ellis! Ellis people!

According to the laws of thermodynamics, whatever rhythm was lost in that gif is not destroyed but simply enters another gif...

The slogan for the Lane Bryant Cacique campaign is “We’re No Angels.” At least in NYC (where the display ads are all over the place, thanks to the ownership being based here), it’s pretty clearly counter-marketing to Victoria’s Secret.

As far as I’ve seen, there is more evidence that ad sales departments drive hard bargains and are generally manipulative than there is evidence that ad sales departments are prudish or dumb. So IMHO, the case sounds to me more that this is a case of market segmentation and ad people playing games.

IMHO, the issue here is the mismatch between what Rubio has to say for the the sake of the nomination, and what he has to say period.

Trying to avoid gossiping, but I have to vent in sympathy with this sentiment.

These things are so kitschy, if they weren’t used for fundraising, you could easily do a bit of message jamming. Like this:

More appropriately: glitter bomb them, and then start singing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”

Since you bring up Facebook, I’d like to know —as someone who threw in the towel on FB and Twitter last year—if my read is correct, or if I’m off base: Sometime after the last U.S. election (2013? 2014?), one of the tweaks to the FB algorithm finally helped get rid of the anti-vax and dumb pseudo-satire/hoax garbage…

FYI, The Simple Dollar published this astoundingly tone deaf screed about why they should be allowed to underpay their domestic workers: http://archive.is/WdhQo

The advice is a bit short on specifics. But it does get at a core truth, which is that when you’re young it’s easy to get frustrated by the fact that so many investment accounts are oriented toward retirement some 30+ years or so down the line —when you believe you’re going to be decrepit or bored by retirement.