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Speed Screed: Exploiting Kids
You know, few things irritate me more than the use of children in commercials, particularly babies. This is the sort of genius advertising that comes from people following a line of thought like this:… more →
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Speed Screed: Metal Dad
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Chalishank wrote 12 months ago: I had the strangest vision of myself yesterday, as a forty-something father driving my kid or kids t … more →
Speed Screed: Exploiting Kids
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: You know, few things irritate me more than the use of children in commercials, particularly babies. … more →
Speed Screed: Barack Star
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: Other than the fact that a presidential election is a de facto popularity contest, pretty much by de … more →
Speed Screed: Pop Stagnation
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: Music doesn’t seem to have evolved much in the last ten years. Although I hardly started liste … more →
Speed Screed: Soft Drinks and the Restaurant Industry
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: It just occurred to me, today, that soft drinks must have revolutionized the restaurant industry. Be … more →
Speed Screed: Childrens' "Menus"
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: In America, we tend to like variety in our restaurants. Limited menus tend mostly to be found at bar … more →
Speed Screed: Polling It Up
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Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: I’m off to be a poll worker tomorrow, a grueling day of smiling at people and collecting ballo … more →
Speed Screed: We're Not As Think As You Dumb We Are
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Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: In case you haven’t noticed, I often “borrow” topics from the New York Times colum … more →
Speed Screed: Campaign Donations
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: You know, McCain once pointed out (I think during the last debate) that Obama had spent more on adve … more →
Speed Screed: A Ploy for Readership
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: I feel like I must have complained in passing about William Kristol being hired to write columns for … more →
Speed Screed: Modernity
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: I remember taking a course called “Challenge of Modernity” in college. I can’t say … more →
Speed Screed: The Vegetarian Test
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: I’ve never actually quartered a chicken by hand before. Until today. When confronted with near … more →
Speed Screed: Recession and the Dow
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: I’m getting pretty tired of the idea of “Main Street vs. Wall Street.” Frankly, mo … more →
Speed Screed: David Brooks, Partisan Hack?
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: You may surprised to learn that I will give people credit where credit is due, once in a while. This … more →
Speed Screed: Reviews Revisted, or What's The Point?
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: Truly there can be no stranger experience than reading reviews of metal albums. I’ve never see … more →
Speed Screed: Unapologetic Snobbery
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Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: In case you haven’t noticed, I’m kind of a snob about beer. Of course, merely turning yo … more →
Speed Screed: Packing Your Life Into A Box
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: As an off-topic side note (despite the fact that you don’t know what the topic really is yet) … more →
Speed Screed: Paving, the Japanese Way
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: A very simple demonstration of short-sighted versus long-term domestic policy can be easily found in … more →
Speed Screed: Heading West
Chalishank wrote 1 year ago: I’ve got a pretty bad hangover today, so I’m going to make this short. I don’t usu … more →
