I've seen this commercial a couple of times in the past, but just watched it now on CBS, 2.49 pm, during the Golf tournament.
"Make yourself more attractive to $100K employers" is the tagline.
The commercial? Middle-aged guys (at leasast it's mostly guys, I saw only one woman) in a slow-motion photo shoot, striking sexy poses.
Just another commercial that uses sex to sell, and not subtle, restrained sex, either.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
What Media Inspires Violent Threats?
Glenn Beck is getting complaints because he's saying on his program that some 78-year-old college professor is one of the 10 most dangerous women in America.
And now some folks are apparently threatening this woman, Frances Fox Piven with death.
Now of course the vast majority of the people making death threats against this woman are just blowing hot air, much like the people on the internet who have flame wars and say, "Meet me in person and let's get it on." No one ever agrees to meet and you know that they wouldn't have the guts to do so. (Well...grownups. Kids, not so much so.)
Why all the death threats?
Is it because of what Glenn Beck is saying (and why in hell is this communist woman teaching our youth at University? No wonder the US is in the toilet), or is it because the people listening to him have watched too many Hollywood movies and TV shows in which violence is glorified and individuals who battle back - violently - against authority are also glorified.
(Take OJ Simpson, for example. Currently in jail because he went to an antique show with a gun to try to take back his own memorabilia. In the movies this would have made a great movie and the "hero" would have been glorified. In real life ,he goes to jail for several years.)
A couple of years ago, there was an episode of Big Bang Theory in which the main character and his three friends are sent to Antarctica - something that would cost millions of dollars - to conduct research. This show is a comedy, and the main character is an egocentric guy - Sheldon, and his three colleagues get tired of him so they deliberately falsify his results in order to get him to shut up.
At the end of the episode Sheldon forgives his friends, and continues on with his life. In real life, whoever had been sponsoring his research would have told those three guys to repay ever red cent of the money they'd spent on them in Antarctica, and their reputations and careers would be in shreds.
But in the TV there are no consequences, life just goes on...
And now some folks are apparently threatening this woman, Frances Fox Piven with death.
Now of course the vast majority of the people making death threats against this woman are just blowing hot air, much like the people on the internet who have flame wars and say, "Meet me in person and let's get it on." No one ever agrees to meet and you know that they wouldn't have the guts to do so. (Well...grownups. Kids, not so much so.)
Why all the death threats?
Is it because of what Glenn Beck is saying (and why in hell is this communist woman teaching our youth at University? No wonder the US is in the toilet), or is it because the people listening to him have watched too many Hollywood movies and TV shows in which violence is glorified and individuals who battle back - violently - against authority are also glorified.
(Take OJ Simpson, for example. Currently in jail because he went to an antique show with a gun to try to take back his own memorabilia. In the movies this would have made a great movie and the "hero" would have been glorified. In real life ,he goes to jail for several years.)
A couple of years ago, there was an episode of Big Bang Theory in which the main character and his three friends are sent to Antarctica - something that would cost millions of dollars - to conduct research. This show is a comedy, and the main character is an egocentric guy - Sheldon, and his three colleagues get tired of him so they deliberately falsify his results in order to get him to shut up.
At the end of the episode Sheldon forgives his friends, and continues on with his life. In real life, whoever had been sponsoring his research would have told those three guys to repay ever red cent of the money they'd spent on them in Antarctica, and their reputations and careers would be in shreds.
But in the TV there are no consequences, life just goes on...
Monday, January 24, 2011
CBSSports.com
Yesterday, both football games were on CBSSports.com - for those who, like myself, live in a city where even though we get satellite tv and a million channels, we don't get local channels!
SO I had to keep track of the game via Gametracker, which gives play by play news of what's going on, and allows people who are members of the site to post comments as the game is in progress. (And its funny..I was watching those comments whirl across my screen and they were going so fast you couldn't read them. I'd bet a million dollars that no one ever reads those comments. People want to comment, but they're commenting into a void. (Except for me, of course. At least I try to read them - and mostly all they are are young men calling players by slighting nicknames (Girlacher) that you know they wouldn't have the guts to say to a 6 ft 6 guy to his face.
Anyway, Jay Cutler of the Bears played one series in the second half and then came out of the game, never to be seen again. 3rd string backup Caleb Hainie came in and eventually got 2 scores (though he unfortunately threw 2 interceptions as well that sealed the deal for the Packers.)
ANyway, as soon as Cutler came out of the game and looked to be out for good, people on Twitter just went into a frenzy. Football players, past and current, apparently, were ripping him in 140 characters or less.
Which I never would have known about, since I dont subscribe to any of their feeds on Twitter. But CBSSports.com actually collected all of these Tweets and collected them into an article for everyone to read.
And now of course today it turns out that Cutler really was injured, he hadn't just given up on his team.
So now CBS - or at least its bloggers - are chiding everyone for their jump-to-conclusions yesterday, ignoring the fact that they themselves contributed to this trashing of Cutler by placing such trashings prominently on their website for all to see.
CBSSports.com isn't a news site, it's a gossip site with news snippets.
SO I had to keep track of the game via Gametracker, which gives play by play news of what's going on, and allows people who are members of the site to post comments as the game is in progress. (And its funny..I was watching those comments whirl across my screen and they were going so fast you couldn't read them. I'd bet a million dollars that no one ever reads those comments. People want to comment, but they're commenting into a void. (Except for me, of course. At least I try to read them - and mostly all they are are young men calling players by slighting nicknames (Girlacher) that you know they wouldn't have the guts to say to a 6 ft 6 guy to his face.
Anyway, Jay Cutler of the Bears played one series in the second half and then came out of the game, never to be seen again. 3rd string backup Caleb Hainie came in and eventually got 2 scores (though he unfortunately threw 2 interceptions as well that sealed the deal for the Packers.)
ANyway, as soon as Cutler came out of the game and looked to be out for good, people on Twitter just went into a frenzy. Football players, past and current, apparently, were ripping him in 140 characters or less.
Which I never would have known about, since I dont subscribe to any of their feeds on Twitter. But CBSSports.com actually collected all of these Tweets and collected them into an article for everyone to read.
And now of course today it turns out that Cutler really was injured, he hadn't just given up on his team.
So now CBS - or at least its bloggers - are chiding everyone for their jump-to-conclusions yesterday, ignoring the fact that they themselves contributed to this trashing of Cutler by placing such trashings prominently on their website for all to see.
CBSSports.com isn't a news site, it's a gossip site with news snippets.
Monday, January 17, 2011
What were they thinking?
This is the type of thing that makes you wonder if people are regressing or progressing. How can anyone, in this day and age, think that a "racy halftime show" would be acceptable?
(And of course shame on the women for giving the lap-dances. Way to represent half the human race, ladies.)
Boston lacrosse team sorry for racy halftime show
BOSTON -- Boston's professional indoor lacrosse team is apologizing for a racy halftime show featuring scantily-dressed women giving lap dances to the team's mascot.
An online video shows dancers taking turns gyrating in front of and on the seated mascot, Scorch, while an announcer bellows, "What do you think?"
Boston Blazers general manager Doug Reffue says the team was "extremely disappointed" with parts of the halftime show Saturday at the TD Garden. On Monday, Reffue said it was part of a halftime promotion that "wasn't executed according to how it was spelled out to us."
Reffue said the dancers were not members of the Blazers' dance team, but fans who volunteered for the halftime promotion. He declined to discuss additional details, but said it won't happen again.
(And of course shame on the women for giving the lap-dances. Way to represent half the human race, ladies.)
Boston lacrosse team sorry for racy halftime show
BOSTON -- Boston's professional indoor lacrosse team is apologizing for a racy halftime show featuring scantily-dressed women giving lap dances to the team's mascot.
An online video shows dancers taking turns gyrating in front of and on the seated mascot, Scorch, while an announcer bellows, "What do you think?"
Boston Blazers general manager Doug Reffue says the team was "extremely disappointed" with parts of the halftime show Saturday at the TD Garden. On Monday, Reffue said it was part of a halftime promotion that "wasn't executed according to how it was spelled out to us."
Reffue said the dancers were not members of the Blazers' dance team, but fans who volunteered for the halftime promotion. He declined to discuss additional details, but said it won't happen again.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Who has more impact on a way a person conducts himself?
Your average joe doesnt' know diddly squat about politics, and doesn't listen to politicians. I'd wager that Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have more listeners than Sarah Palin ever does.
I started this blog because I wanted to document the continuing coarsening of America. It's been going on for years.
You tell me what affects a young guy more. Not listening to some ol' broad on TV spout political stuff, or watching a couple of hours worth of World Wildlife Wresting or whatever it's called, when these humongous guys in swimsuits show off their muscles and strut around, and these days they all seem to play the "bad boy" - and you've got these guys stomping helpless opponents into the mat, breaking chairs over their backs, and so on, while thousands of people in the audience cheer this stuff on.
I would think it would be people who watch that who would be desensitized to violence, or who will react violently to a situation even if it doens't call for it, just because that's what they're used to seeing on TV.
Way back in the 70s, there was a family viewing hour, where violence couldn't be on TV at certain times. I wonder if that is what has changed the TV culture these days (until the reality shows and WWF came in) to what it is now, an obsession with sex.
I started this blog because I wanted to document the continuing coarsening of America. It's been going on for years.
You tell me what affects a young guy more. Not listening to some ol' broad on TV spout political stuff, or watching a couple of hours worth of World Wildlife Wresting or whatever it's called, when these humongous guys in swimsuits show off their muscles and strut around, and these days they all seem to play the "bad boy" - and you've got these guys stomping helpless opponents into the mat, breaking chairs over their backs, and so on, while thousands of people in the audience cheer this stuff on.
I would think it would be people who watch that who would be desensitized to violence, or who will react violently to a situation even if it doens't call for it, just because that's what they're used to seeing on TV.
Way back in the 70s, there was a family viewing hour, where violence couldn't be on TV at certain times. I wonder if that is what has changed the TV culture these days (until the reality shows and WWF came in) to what it is now, an obsession with sex.
Monday, January 10, 2011
No Guns or Military References To Be Used In Campaigns
The fallout from the mass-murder conducted by Jared Loughner is still continuing.
Within seconds of the murders, the media and the commenters on the media were blaming right wing talk radio like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, as well as Sarah Palin with a target...not on a person but on an Congressional district - a map - for causing Loughner to go crazy.
And of course it turns out that he was just crazy. He wasn't a Republican who hated a Democrat, he was just crazy.
Within seconds of the murders, the media and the commenters on the media were blaming right wing talk radio like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, as well as Sarah Palin with a target...not on a person but on an Congressional district - a map - for causing Loughner to go crazy.
And of course it turns out that he was just crazy. He wasn't a Republican who hated a Democrat, he was just crazy.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
It Only Hurts When I Laugh - TV show
It Only Hurts When I Laugh is another reality show on TruTV, in which a smarmy voice over guy makes fun of people having accidents that are supposed to be funny, like women slipping and falling on their high heels, or kids on sleds doing face plants.
I just watched a few minutes of it - thanks to my Dad who unfortunately thinks these things are funny.
A Chinese male gymnast performing on the parallel bar does some kind of reverse move, and hits the back of his neck on the bar before falling unconscious to the floor. I guarantee he was either dead or paralyzed for the rest of his life - and we're supposed to laugh at that?
Then a weight lifter doing a clean and jerk, with probably 300 pounds of weights on each side of the barbell. He falls, and one end of the barbell - the weights - hits him in the head. When 300 pounds hit you in the head, I seriously doubt if you get up and walk away. He also was either dead or seriously injured, and we're supposed to laugh at that?
This is a horrible show, and its so sad that people actually like to laugh at these things.
I just watched a few minutes of it - thanks to my Dad who unfortunately thinks these things are funny.
A Chinese male gymnast performing on the parallel bar does some kind of reverse move, and hits the back of his neck on the bar before falling unconscious to the floor. I guarantee he was either dead or paralyzed for the rest of his life - and we're supposed to laugh at that?
Then a weight lifter doing a clean and jerk, with probably 300 pounds of weights on each side of the barbell. He falls, and one end of the barbell - the weights - hits him in the head. When 300 pounds hit you in the head, I seriously doubt if you get up and walk away. He also was either dead or seriously injured, and we're supposed to laugh at that?
This is a horrible show, and its so sad that people actually like to laugh at these things.
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