Good ridance to bad advertising
I forgot to mention yesterday this horrid ad plastered on the side of a building was taken down over the weekend. It was for a travel firm that had a pictures of a Chicago winter next to pictures of Arizona or some other desert state complete with thermometers. It was the thermometers that made the ad so bad. If you looked at the Fahrenheit side, it looked fine but they had the scale wrong on the Celsius side. You see according to them 80 degrees F = 170 degrees C. That's about 380 degrees F. Hot as an oven ... literally! In college I was a physics major for a while and almost earned enough credits to make it a minor. Science uses the Celsius scale for good reason. This was a stupid mistake and could have easily been avoided. There's no excuse.
The other horrid ad that I'm glad I won't have to see again for a while (hopefully forever) is a political ad. I'm near Illinois' 14th district so I had to put up with the Oberweis vs Foster campaign. I trust Foster. He's a scientist and researcher. Being a scientist requires a degree of humility and willingness to listen to people who disagree with you and defend your own position using logic and facts. We need that in Washington. Unfortunately Oberweis and his friends plays dirty. The Heritage Foundation (an anti-American ultra-right-wing group) deliberatly and with malice took one of Foster's quote out of context and repeated it again and again. Basically Foster said, "The idea that you can solve problems by throwing money at them is crazy." and Heritage took out the middle part, "you can solve problems by throwing money at them" and cut out everything else. You don't get much slimier than a religious conservative.
The other horrid ad that I'm glad I won't have to see again for a while (hopefully forever) is a political ad. I'm near Illinois' 14th district so I had to put up with the Oberweis vs Foster campaign. I trust Foster. He's a scientist and researcher. Being a scientist requires a degree of humility and willingness to listen to people who disagree with you and defend your own position using logic and facts. We need that in Washington. Unfortunately Oberweis and his friends plays dirty. The Heritage Foundation (an anti-American ultra-right-wing group) deliberatly and with malice took one of Foster's quote out of context and repeated it again and again. Basically Foster said, "The idea that you can solve problems by throwing money at them is crazy." and Heritage took out the middle part, "you can solve problems by throwing money at them" and cut out everything else. You don't get much slimier than a religious conservative.