Dear Burger King

Dear Burger King, I’ve written before about your ill advised advertisements and the lack of judgement shown by both those  who create your ad campaigns and by those who approve them.  Your company shows an appalling insensitivity and astounding lack of common sense. Your latest ad, showing a Hindu Goddess floating atop a hamburger simply [...]

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Throw the rascals out

But this first decade of the new millennium has proved that the best and the brightest can be breathtakingly stupid, whatever their supposed area of expertise. March 23/09 Owen Gray I read a variety of blogs and newspapers around the world and have bookmarked a couple I go back to on a regular basis. Owen [...]

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Let me amend that last figure

So… the figure I quoted on the AIG bonuses was a wee bit off. It was revealed today the figure is about $55 million more than previously reported. Looks like they paid out $218 million in bonuses. The execs at AIG are looking more and more like a bunch of drunken frat boys on spring [...]

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Someone must be joking

This can’t be true: Marie Douglas-David, a former investment banker, says she has no income and needs her 67-year-old husband, George David, to pay her more than $53,000 a week — more than most U.S. households make in a year — to cover her expenses…She’s asking to be awarded about $100 million in cash and [...]

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Melamine – umm umm good!

Oh we could add dirt and crap to the flour. No wait, how about some sort of chemical castoff. I have a cousin who can get it for us real cheap. You know some sort of chemical that could make the milk look richer but we would only have to sell water with a bit of whitening agent in it and a thickener.

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