Fun facts to know and tell about beer advertising:

Beer advertising and materials should not depict Santa Claus.*
Beer advertising and marketing materials should not convey the impression that a beer has special or unique qualities if in fact it does not.**
Beer advertising and marketing materials should not employ religion or religious themes.***
Beer advertising and marketing materials […]

A few years ago an irresistible teen sex meme began to spread. For kids today, the story goes, oral sex is no more intimate than a handshake, and exchanged just as casually. Recently the media reported on a new study in the journal Pediatrics that appeared to confirm this conventional wisdom, leading to tsk-tsking among […]

For the next few days, I may be a bit harder to get hold of than usual, spanning the gap between Howard Hughes and Nessie. Last night, after months of mild but persistent prodding not unlike the forced erosion inside a rock tumbler, my wife convinced me to join her plan.
Her cell phone plan, I […]

One day after a record-shattering weekend for Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, an advocacy group is asking Burger King to stop the tie-in of its Kids Meals with the film because it is rated PG-13.
USA Today tells the tale

Every once in a while, I read an article like this and think, “You know, it might all just be okay. I may not get my flying car, but I will accept substitutions.”

Awwwwwwwww here come the banner ads!
Maybe not, but Google is slowly, slowly turning into a portal. You may remember portals from the nineties, when the web’s business plan was
1. Get a web site
2. Turn it into a portal
4. Profit
but when the actual chain of events went a lot more like

Create a lovely site that people […]

The wife and I went on a crazy, gluttonous, Lenin-validating consumer spree with our wedding gift cards this weekend, sacking the Target and leaving nothing but debris and bruised stockboys in our wake. As we began to struggle a bit to find space for our existing wedding gifts in the manse, I was wary of […]

Deep breaths, everyone! Rest easy. In case you haven’t heard somehow already, Pope Benedict XVI has emergency speed-beatified John Paul II. The ever-weakening requirements for becoming a saint normally begin with a 5-year waiting period to make sure that the people calling for sainthood aren’t just caught up in the passions of the moment, but […]

What did you get your mom for Mother’s Day?
Flowers? Candy? Maybe a nice piece of chicken at a classy restaurant?
For my mom’s birthday, which seems to be on Mother’s Day every other year, I got her the one thing she has been asking for consistently for the last several months, the thing that every mother […]

“I’m really excited about getting this insurance quote.”
-everything you need to know about my wife