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...market leaders are better poised to weather the storm: "Companies outside the top three in their industry have been slower to act and will likely suffer disproportionately from the recession. In contrast, market leaders, even though they have not been as badly affected as their lower-ranked rivals, are doing more to address the crisis. Too many companies are focused on taking easy measures: cutting travel, entertainment, internal meetings, and the like. Far fewer are even contemplating taking measures that would increase their long-term competitiveness...
There is a storm gathering. The clouds are dark and the winds are strong...
...keep you in suspense. The storm is the gay marriage debate. The clouds and strong winds? Those are an April 3 Iowa supreme court ruling and the Vermont legislature's decision to override a governor's veto on April 7, making the states the third and fourth in the country where gay marriage is now legal. (The other two are Connecticut and Massachusetts.) In response to these recent additions, the National Organization for Marriage rushed out this ominous new television ad ahead of schedule, featuring monologues from parents, teachers and doctors in gay marriage battleground states worried about what same...
...Well, it's not exactly straight from people who want to "protect marriage." The zombie-like figures in NOM storm ad are actually actors - whom in retrospect Gallagher might have some regret over hiring. Shortly after the NOM ad was released, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, got its hands on some of the characters' very watchable audition tapes. (The audition videos were a huge hit on YouTube, but were quickly removed due to copyright infringement...
...like that behind the scenes flavor." Joe Solmonese, the president of HRC, said he doesn't know how his organization got the audition tapes - he would only disclose, "I assume someone sent them to us from where the people auditioned." In addition to the casting call videos for the storm ad, NOM's television campaign has inspired a bonanza of YouTube spoofs. See this, this and this...