Are youppppppOkay, let me grasp what’s going on here. A website created by some highly-accomplished and interesting women, putatively FOR women, now publishes pejorative rhetoricrhetoric ABOUT women democrats who do not support Barack Obama. How dismal. The presumption that some pathetic peevishness underlies this position, rather than a careful, intelligent analysis of Obama’s history, support base and agenda, is shocking in such a context. It should not be necessary to point out, here, that women are immensely capable of independent thought. Instead of falling into a mindless “party unity” lockstep trampling the intellectual integrity of thousands of women, I suggest that you stand back for a minute. Accept the possible validity of a view you choose not to understand. Interview an anti-Obama woman journalist. At the very least, read the papers to get an inkling of what this guy’s really up to. But stop denigrating women. Th

Wow. “We weren’t born yesterday” could revolutionize the advertising industry (see Stuart Ewen’s CAPTAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS:THE SOCIAL ROOTS OF CONSUMER CULTURE) overnight! Advertising consists of creating in the minds of consumers “needs” that do not actually exist. Those of us who are on our 10th car, 222nd bag of frozen peas and gadzillionth toothbrush can no longer be manipulated. We’ve been around this block so many times that we know (or will find out before buying) exactly what works, what doesn’t, what we want and what we don’t. But hey, wouldn’t we just just love it if advertisers acknowledged our lack of gullibility and approached us as the interested but savvy market we are? Wow.