You've got to be kidding me

The national aired tonight aboard a ship in Canada's north, following several climate scientist. When the story was heading towards the "isn't it weird that all of this weird weather is happening at the same time? If arctic ice melts, there will be draught from BC to South America" direction, the story shifted in a really REALLY disturbing direction: If all of the arctic ice melts, there will be a short-cut to Asia! Therefore Canada needs to assert its sovereignty and claim these waters as their own.

You've got to be kidding me.

On that not, go to the ol' Hummer web-site to check-out their intelligent advertising. My favourite is Tofu, where 2 guys are at the check-out counter, one purchasing health food (they had to do a close-up of the tofu being scanned). Right behind him is a guy buying some manly meat (big racks of ribs). Guy #1 is clearly embarrassed by his obvious lack of manhood when he spots a Hummer magazine on the counter. He zooms out of the store to the nearest dealership to purchase the solution to all of his problems: The Hummer. As he drives off chewing on a carrot, the tag like RESTORE THE BALANCE flashes across the screen. They even advertise the 20 MPG and the fact that they start at $30, 000! Wow! Yep, restore that balance. I think their next commercial should deal with the fact that you could save thousands of African children from disease for the price of 1 hummer. Restore the balance and be proud of yourself you giant asshole.

As one blogger, commenting on the same commercial, said - "when you're the bottom of the barrel, all you can do is scrape the garbage." So, if you're working in advertising at GM, make sure you take a lot of showers because you smell like rotten eggs.