Archive for November, 2006

branding the planet

15Nov06

Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently taken the novel step of branding the planet itself with a giant KFC logo in the southern United States. One of KFC’s soulless marketing drones makes the following vacuous remark:
The Colonel is truly a global icon and we want everyone in the universe to see KFC’s new look of […]

us and them

13Nov06

Not content with reinforcing the perception of ‘the West’ as a monolithic entity whose values are under assault, however, Blair goes a step further and refuses to countenance any attempt to distinguish between a rejection of the current US administration and the United States, the country, itself.

a different math

13Nov06

many would consider you on the optimistic end of realism