Say what?

The Wonkette reported a fairly funny, but also quite offensive comment about the state of Connecticut today.... go read it..

In other thoughts, do those ads against smoking (paid for by the Cigarette industry) work? How about the anti-piracy ads before movies?

Oh, I doubt it.

Let's take the example of the smoking dog in one of the ads. What on earth is cooler than a dog smoking? Targeting an audience that is used to talking animals (Dr. Doolittle, Garfield, Get Fuzzy, those funny cows from California) as icons of irony and detatchment - which is of course the language of teenaged malaise - seems somewhat stupid. Or more likely, and this pegged my conspiracy meter on the way to work today, the cigarette industry made an anti-ad. (in the manner of the anti-hero, not exactly an hero by choice, but by circumstance, think Hell Boy, Punisher, Wolverine, etc. Ergo this is an ad for cigarettes, not by way of saying you should smoke, but by saying this dog does - and isn't that cool, don't you want to be cool...?)

As Terry Pratchett noted "Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."