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Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?
We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, advertisement, advertising, alternative & punk, big business, campaign, common, conformity, consumerism, diy, materialism, politics, vandal, vandalism.
Tags: advertising, aesthetic, agenda, art collective, billboard, brazil, capitalism, consumerism, corporate influence, corporate interests, corporations, delicatessen, diy, do it yourself, emilythestrange, jean-pierre jeunet, marc caro, materialism, movement, nate the great and the lost list, oprah, politics, punk, self help, self-esteem, selling out, strange, terry gilliam, the church of just stop shopping, the school of practical philosophy, vandalism
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The Elephant in the Room: The Case against Corporate Personhood
NPR ran not one but two recent pieces about a pending Supreme Court case. It’s about Hillary: The Movie, which is a politically motivated defamation of the nation’s first female candidate which would have aired the night before the Democratic primary on Pay-Per-View TV. Because the group that made the movie, Citizens United, is a [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2009 under Supreme Court, campaign, candidate, corporate greed, free, freedom, hillary clinton, law, lawyer, politician, politics.
Tags: campaign finance reform, citizens united, corporate rights, election, elephant, free, free speech, freedom, George Mason University, hillary, hillary clinton, hillary rodham clinton, hillary: the movie, human rights, law, lawyers, money, NPR, obama, on point, pay-per-view, politics, power, primary, Supreme Court, voting, voting rights
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"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor
There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2008 under ad, ads, advertisement, big business, campaign, commerce, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, consumerism, culture, dinosaur comics, don hertzfeld, get your war on, humor, materialism, offbeat, product, rejection, toothpaste for dinner, whore.
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Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution
Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under 14th, American, Congress, George W. BUsh, National Organization for Women, Senator, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States, Virginia Tech, abigail adams, abusive conduct, agency, amendment, american history, antonio morrison, bill clinton, bitch, campaign, candidate, christy brzonkala, commerce clause, condom, constitution, constitutional, court of appeals, culture, en banc, football players, founding father, founding mother, fourteenth amendment, fuck the shit out of them, george macon university, get girls drunk, government, grand jury, history, human rights, hurting, inequality, james crawford, joe biden, john quincy adams, judge rehnquist, liberty, life, masculine systems, masculinity, no, objectification, opinionatrix, personal safety, pretzel, pursuit of happiness, race, rape, rapist, religion, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, state's rights, stds, strength, survivor, violence, violence against women, violence against women act, woman, women's center, women's liberation, women's rights.
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Variety Pack: Damn, You're Good. Here's some Bad & Ugly.
Firstly, I’d like to say that if you’re reading this, you’re a genius. I just took this test (which I got from Apostropha who got it from $3.60 who got if from brownfemipower), and some algorithms indicated that you must be a genius to read this site. For real. And algorithms don’t lie. After all, [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2007 under Chuck Norris, GOP, NOLA, activism, algorithm, anticlimax, apocalypse, apostropha, bad, broadsheet, campaign, child porn, genius, good, huckabee, huckaboom, lawsuit, new orleans, obama, politics, porn, poverty, rating, smear, standardized testing, sue, suit, test, ugly.
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