Word: madnesses
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...Jyoti Thottam's the growing dangers of the China Trade" [July 9]: Have we selectively forgotten that mad-cow-diseased beef and other tainted food products like bagged spinach and peanut butter originated on U.S. soil within the past few years? To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations. We must take responsibility for cleaning up our own backyard when demanding that others take care of theirs...
...airlines notwithstanding, of course) given that your lifetime value as a profitable client is much too high to discard because of a couple of nasty complains. The math is compelling: it costs a lot of money to acquire a customer and relatively little to keep them if they get mad - some free minutes or a couple of bucks off the bill will usually do the trick. The companies know that there's a a certain amount of inertia that keeps us from moving, even if the service is lousy. (Think about the last time you switched banks...
...can’t disregard that doing precisely and only what I want for the next two months—eating, reading, and avoiding the mad crush of vacationers at all costs—is an endlessly (and inexcusably) self-indulgent exercise. If I’m not miserable, how will I know that I’m growing as a person? Isn’t there something terribly decadent and ironic about my snacking on fresh-picked organic cherries and a Parisian chocolate macaroon when I receive an email news update about poor children in South Africa from...
...Paprika is a seductive sleepwalk, Aachi & Ssipak is a late-night run to the bathroom. Take the coprophiliac premise of South Park's Mr. Hankey episodes, and set it in a Mad Max futureworld. All fuels have been depleted in this cartoon-ageddon, and the only source of energy left is feces. To stockpile this precious element, citizens are obliged to defecate in public chambers and rewarded for their pains with Juicy Bars - poopsicles, if you will. The Diaper Gang, Smurf-like gangstas addicted to Juicy Bars, do the bidding of their Vaderesque overlord, the Diaper King, and have suicidal...
Which shouldn't be a surprise. People in "legitimate" creative fields like to believe that ads can't be art, but ads often have been as influential as TV--or more so--in pop culture. This is demonstrated by, of all things, a TV series: AMC's Mad Men, about ad executives in 1960--and possibly the best new show you'll see this summer...