PART ONE: O’Ronald McLaden And How Green Leads To Red!

Ethnic Marketing Is Wrong (Northern Star)
South LA Bans New Fast Food Places In Inner-City Areas (The New York Times)
McDonalds’ Is The Best Company For Minorities (QSR Web)
McDonalds’ Ethnic Marketing Strategy (Nation’s Restauraunt News)
Pros of “Ethnic Marketing” and McDonalds’ Latino Menu (Bloomberg Businessweek)

PART TWO: The Burning Question! (Why Support Animal Rights?)

PART THREE: This Was Actually On Inside Edition! (Women Who Lives With Cheetahs/Engagement Chicken)

(Thanks to SuperFlash101 for this awesome logo!)

Woman Who Lives With Cheetas

Engagement Chicken

PART FOUR: Book Review Time! (The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer)

BLOOPER: BROWN-EYED TOLLBOOTH!

IN COMMENTS:

Is “ethnic marketing” ethical? Is it effective?

Should we support animal rights? Why or why not?

Do you think engagement chicken could work? Why or why not?

Would you ever live with cheetahs?

Have you read The Phantom Tollbooth? If so, what did you think of it?

PART ONE: A READING: LET THEM EAT BUNNIES (PART TWO)

As originally published in SPY, April 1992. ©1992 SPY Corp. No ownership intended or implied.

Photo by Oscar Abolafia.

PART TWO: BOOK REVIEW TIME/LAST COMIC STANDING: JEFF SMITH’S BONE

PART THREE: FILM THOUGHTS: HAPPINESS IS A WARM BLANKET, CHARLIE BROWN

©2011 Peanuts Worldwide LLC

In comments:

Almost 20 years after the Bunny Burgers prank, has the public conception of advertising and public relations become better or worse (or the same)? Would you eat a Bunny Burger or any rabbit-based food? Would you like to hear more from the SPY magazine archive?

Have you read Bone? If not, did this review make you interested in doing so?

Are you a fan of Peanuts? What is your “security blanket?”

PART ONE: THE TOP FIVE PRESIDENTIAL PIECES OF FACIAL HAIR

PART TWO: A READING OR TWO

GROOVES TO RUN, BY TOMATO SURPRISE

LET THEM EAT BUNNIES, BY SPY MAGAZINE (PART ONE)

featuring R.W. Mead

As originally published in SPY, April 1992. ©1992 SPY Corp. No ownership intended or implied. 

Photo by Oscar Abolafia.

PART THREE: THINGS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND: CRISIS ON INFINITE SHAKESPEARES

PART FOUR: I’D GO ASEXUAL FOR SENATOR STACEY CAMPFIELD AND REPRESENTATIVE BILL DUNN

Text of the legislation in question (Tennessee Senate Bill 49/House Bill 229):

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10, relative to education.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-1005, is amended by adding the following as new subsection (c) and by relettering the existing subsection (c) accordingly:

(c) (1) The general assembly recognizes the sensitivity of particular subjects that are best explained and discussed in the home. Human sexuality is a complex subject with societal, scientific, psychological, and historical implications; those implications are best understood by children with sufficient maturity to grasp their complexity.

(2) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

PART FIVE: THE BIG BURNING QUESTION: HOW SHOULD WE PUNISH R.W. MEAD?

PART SIX: BOOK REVIEW TIME: ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA BY CHELSEA HANDLER

PART SEVEN: LAST COMIC STANDING: AVENGERS ACADEMY #12, TEEN TITANS #94, WOLVERINE #8, SUPER DINOSAUR #1

Art by Jason Howard

PART ONE: RUSH HOUR IN HO CHI MINH!

(Yes, I know that Ho Chi Min is a city. I’m an idiot!)

PART TWO: EVOLUTION COOKIE TIME!

PART THREE: A READING! (FROM FAHRENHEIT 451, BY RAY BRADBURY)

PART FOUR: THE JACK CHICK ZONE! (YOU HAVE A DATE)

(The strip in question can be found here.)

PART FIVE: KICKING AND SCREENING! (GLEE, “PILOT”)

PART SIX: THINGS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! (SEXY ANCIENT MATH)

IN COMMENTS:

How much does culture (and how we imagine the culture of others) matter in society, if at all?

What are your thoughts on evolution?

Have you read Fahrenheit 451, or anything else by Ray Bradbury? Did you like it, or not?

What should be the next tract for The Jack Chick Zone? Do you want more, or not?

What did you think of Glee’s pilot?

Can you find anything with a Phi ratio around your house/city? If so, what?

What does Phi mean for society at large?

EPISODE ONE

(Thanks to SuperFlash101 and Topher208 for our first awesome logo! Click the logo above to read their webcomic, Damaged Tape!)

PART ONE: MCBLOGGING

PART TWO: BOOK REVIEW TIME! (THE LONG WALK, BY RICHARD BACHMAN/STEPHEN KING)

PART THREE: TEN INCREDIBLY DISTURBING, STRANGE, OR USELESS THINGS THAT YOU CAN BUY FROM A CENTURY RESOURCES CATALOG!

For photos, click here.

PART FOUR: I’D GO ASEXUAL FOR CHICK-FIL-A!

PART FIVE: TWENTY QUESTION FOR R.W. MEAD!

BONUS BREAKFAST BLOOPER!

PLEASE HELP JAPAN: A PSA!