The 2012 Amelia Island Chili Cookoff in Fernandina Beach featured 27 contestants to benefit the Amelia Island Montessori school.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Hi Mom!
February 24, 2012 – 4:43 pm
Recycling ads is nothing new, especially when the focal point is one of the most enduringly positive concepts in America: a candidate’s mother. Notice how North Dakota Republican Rep. Rick Berg, who is running for Senate this year, copies an ad for former Democratic Minority Leader Delegate Ward Armstrong: Rick Berg for Senate 2012: Ward […]
Contraception Facts: Bad Infographics, or Enough With The Verticals Already
February 17, 2012 – 6:11 am
If you’re going to make an infographic that is 1,800 pixels high, you better have a really good reason. The Obama campaign, well-known for a keen graphic sense unseen in history, put out some facts on the birth control insurance mandate in the form of an infographic that requires five or six scrolls to get […]
Hoekstra’s Yellow Hands: A Brief History of anti-Chinese Racist Campaign Ads
February 6, 2012 – 6:19 pm
You have probably seen Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s horrifically racist Super Bowl ad, featuring an Asian woman speaking broken English while riding through her rice paddy with a conical hat: I’m a native-born Chinese American. Odious scumbags like Rep. Pete Hoekstra and his daft team make my blood boil hotter than lava. I’m not going to […]