Some actions are considered indisputably abhorrent: abusing babies, swindling the elderly. Reactions to others vary depending on personally held views: allowing gays to marry, voting Republican. But if local news coverage is an accurate barometer, there is one deed that will get a person vilified as evil incarnate even more thoroughly than if they were […]

Crocs: Your dignity is a small price to pay for foot comfort.

Like Dave at the Eleventh Hour, I had planned to sit out this latest round of the smoking battle, except to decry the use of micturative (thanks Jeff) analogies that only serve to sully the debate. But like Dave, I was sucked back into the fray because of the utter stupidity being exhibited. In my […]

For further evidence of the decline in public discourse in this country look no further than the editorial page of Monday’s State Journal-Register. There you will find an Op-Ed by the chairman of the Sangamon County Board, a once-respected position of government although apparently no longer, in which he discusses a serious issue in the […]

I’d like to talk a little bit about branding. Not the practice of applying a red-hot iron to a steer’s hindquarters, but the attempt to indelibly connect an idea to a product.
Corporations spend millions in marketing revenue in an attempt to attach a positive idea to their offering that speaks to the desired demographic. […]