There’s something amusingly pathetic about seeing how easily vapid progressives can be swayed into tattooing a corporate sponsor’s logo onto their political identity. J. Bryan Lowder has been good on this topic before, and I’ll just reiterate that, aside from avoiding the indignity of acting as an unpaid mascot for any corporate entity with a marketing department savvy enough to flatter your vanity, you might want to rethink the logic of this “voting with your wallet” thing.
April 7, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
Are you sure? Because I heard that if we buy enough graham crackers, I can get married. I would have bought more than 100 boxes, but my garage was full of Cheerios.
April 7, 2014 @ 8:57 pm
After re-reading your original post…how can you claim "the system" is "corrupt to the core"? It's human…which means its by definition full of shadyness and corruption. Name a "system" that is not.
Plus…given that corporations are demanding to be treated like "persons" in all legal ways, why is it so questionable to demand "they" have personal responsibilitie? It may be downright silly…and it is…but who started demanding this personhood to begin with? Who invented a whole science to make us identify corporations with personhood? There's a bit of crocodile tears here from corporations who now proclaim they should have no "personal" responbilities?
Of course…I agree with your more basic point. These kinds of protests don't really accomplish anything, so I am just being an internet ranter!
April 7, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
Noel — 100 boxes should be enough for you and Randy to get married, but if you want to include Gerard Butler, that will be an additional 75 proofs-of-purchase, plus a notarized document swearing that you boycotted Mozilla for the day or two that was in effect.
Seriously, it's not like Honey Maid announced an initiative to spend 10% of their yearly profits on shelters and counseling for gay teenagers who got kicked out of their homes after coming out to their parents; they made a sappy ad. "They affirmed our basic humanity!" Congratulations, they recognize that you've got money to spend, and they're happy to market to you.
Brian — it was Ed at Gin and Tacos who said that, and I imagine it was mostly just a rhetorical cliché.
April 8, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
Done and done! Wow, you're good! Now can you do something about Hugh Jackman; he's not returning my calls.
April 9, 2014 @ 1:15 am
Hugh's old-fashioned. He likes to be pursued to know you really mean it. Doesn't want to be seen as easy. Sneaking past the security system in his house and waiting in his bedroom would probably be just the thing to demonstrate the dedication and problem-solving smarts that would really impress him. Good luck!
April 9, 2014 @ 4:13 pm
You should write a regular advice column.
April 9, 2014 @ 10:38 pm
I got an invitation to do that last year.