Goodbye Pork Butt Blog Goodbye Pork Butt The beef and pork industries are renaming 350 cuts of meat. What do these new meat monikers make us think of?
Baseball everywhere, unless you live in Iowa Blog Baseball everywhere, unless you live in Iowa Sometimes you just can’t watch the Mets in Roswell, New Mexico.
Toying with Gender Marketing Blog Toying with Gender Marketing Not all girls like to play with dolls. What’s a race car girl to do when her favorite toys are marketed towards boys?
Week in Review Blog Week in Review Oil, heating pads, rugs, razors, and drinks – no, this isn’t about preparing for a romantic interlude, but rather the products featured in the I-think-you’re-lying-to-me category during the week of…
My Confusing Hunt for a Leather Couch Blog My Confusing Hunt for a Leather Couch Plenty of furniture is labeled as leather, but not everything called leather is exactly that. What are you really sitting on?
Were Gauguin’s Paintings Part of a Deceptive Marketing Ploy? Blog Were Gauguin’s Paintings Part of a Deceptive Marketing Ploy? By the time Paul Gauguin left his wife and five kids to pursue a painting career in Tahiti, Polynesian women were not wandering around the island half naked. In fact,…
Argo-nomics: the Commercial Value of Oscars Blog Argo-nomics: the Commercial Value of Oscars The Oscars: merit award or money maker?
Weekly Legal Roundup Blog Weekly Legal Roundup Diamonds, energy supplements and cholesterol reducing drugs made legal headlines in the I-think-you’re-lying-to-me category during the week of February 11, 2013. Two new false advertising actions were filed: It’s a…
Weekly Legal Roundup Blog Weekly Legal Roundup During the week of February 4, 2013, digestion, food, and make-up bubbled to the top of the legal I-think-you’re-lying-to-me landscape. Three new false advertising class actions were filed: Maybelline was…
Should Best Lip-Sync Be a New Grammy Category? Blog Should Best Lip-Sync Be a New Grammy Category? There are understandable reasons for lip-syncing—sound quality, predictability, choreography—but in the end, lip-syncing is a kind of lie.
Diet Drug Transfers Fat to Breasts and Tans Skin Blog Diet Drug Transfers Fat to Breasts and Tans Skin First reaction: totally gross. Second reaction: hello Photoshop!
Lance and LIVESTRONG: You Need a Divorce Blog Lance and LIVESTRONG: You Need a Divorce Lance Armstrong has conned me one too many times.
The Seven Best Things About Super Bowl Ads Blog The Seven Best Things About Super Bowl Ads Why we love to watch Super Bowl commercials.
The Top Five Ways Super Bowl Ads Will Lie to You Blog The Top Five Ways Super Bowl Ads Will Lie to You
Big Mickey is Watching You Blog Big Mickey is Watching You MyMagic+ at Disney may mean shorter lines but more direct marketing to guests.
I Was Desperate for a Job, But Not This One Blog I Was Desperate for a Job, But Not This One The opportunity of a lifetime? Not so much.
Seriously Siri? Blog Seriously Siri? When I watched Samuel L. Jackson talk to Siri in his flirtatious way in the iPhone television commercial and how efficient she (it?) was in helping him arrange a romantic…
Vacation Deal Gone Wrong – The Dangers of Craigslist Blog Vacation Deal Gone Wrong – The Dangers of Craigslist Searching for the perfect all-girls weekend rental, my dear friend came across this ad on Craigslist: Fantastic 5 bedroom . . . house with water views just 300 feet from…
57 Year Old Mom Looks 27! Blog 57 Year Old Mom Looks 27! I feel like the online version of the New York Times has me pegged. Or to say it another way, NYTimes’ cookies have tracked my online behavior such that its…
What’s Magic about this Ingredient in Energy Drinks? Blog What’s Magic about this Ingredient in Energy Drinks? Your browser does not support the video tag. Shocking news flash: the “energy” from energy drinks comes from caffeine, and not the other fluffy ingredients, such as the “B vitamins…