This isn't a post about Prop 8, this is a post about this banner ad. I'd say it's about as useful and informative as any political ad I've ever seen. It belongs right in between those ads that say "firefighters want you to support initiative 17A this Novermber" without ever mentioning what the hell initiative 17A is, and an ad that says "Vote no on initiative 17A this November, because we want you to so much that we bought an advertisement."
EDIT: Apparently, more people are up in arms about their google ads running that Prop 8 thing (legislative branch action to ban same sex marriages after the judicial branch found them acceptable) regardless of relevance or adsense filters that may have been in place. Kind of like the Emergency Broadcast System, but with more hate than usual. And here I've gone and put it up on my own ad-free site anyway, just for being goofy-lookin'.
Wait! Stop! I've just been struck! With wonder! Was 'Night Court' an inherently goofy premise? Or are there really courts open at night? I have no idea, but on other programs, it seems like when you get arrested you go into the cell until morning. Or...something. I thought they worked on banker's hours, pretty much.
Not dissimilarly, you've got the phrase 'go in, guns blazing, rambo style!' Or at least the sentiment. But wasn't his style more of a divide-and-conquer thing? Lots of lethal traps? Sneak up behind you with a knife? There's so much out there to learn from things I haven't watched yet!
I recently discovered a delightful OSX application called Monolingual. It's designed to remove unused alternate language packs from your mac. As you can imagine, I was relieved not only to regain nearly a gigabyte of hard disk space, but to rid my machine of all that horrible Portuguese!
It's times like these one can really make the most of an arbitrary, baseless prejudice. Take that, Portugal!
Are there actually people who believe that [terrorist organization] could sneak a politician into the system with the end goal of making him president, at which point he'll pull off a rubber mask and yell 'gotcha!' and now [terror] will own the United States?
And if so, shouldn't that be more or less allowed anyway? Isn't that sort of thing the point of the idealized description of our form of government?
Or do they think it'll all be done hush-hush, like they get their guy in, and he makes sure that everything's cool when they try to attack us, and they have him arrange to do things to bring down the country from within, by misdirecting the public focus, damaging and dismantling 'public good' programs, tanking the economy, lowering our allies' esteem of us, peeling back civil rights...wait a minute....hm.
I always thought it was about "Bus stop Wendy." It's still a beautiful song, as far as songs go. (Since, of course, all songs are sad.)