Saturday, February 03, 2007

Fear Itself

Boston's mayor, Tom Menino, threatens. among other things, to ask the FCC to yank Turner Broadcasting's license.

Does the FCC issue licenses to cable networks?

We've got Lite Brites which were up for weeks in numerous cities all of the sudden being pegged as IEDs by the vigilant in Boston?

I thought the people who created IEDs went to great lengths to hide them as opposed to lighting them up and drawing attention to them.

But the spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, Russ Knocke, was quick to praise Boston officials' response to the terrorist threat.

Are these people all morons?

I did appreciate how sceptical the judge who arraigned Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens was about the ability of the assistant attorney general to make the charge of placing a hoax device.

Someone told me once that the measure of a successful advertisement was whether you remembered the name of the product afterwards.

As someone who had previously never heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I have to say that, by that measure, this advertising campaign was successful.

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