• Ship And Bones: Where's The Beef?
    The scarily witless and embarrassing tagline for the new KFC boneless chicken product is boneheaded. What a strange way to go about announcing the menu change. It's all about promoting what you didn't eat, rather than praising what you did.
  • Episode 603: The Trudy Pact -- Or, He'll Have The Steak Diablo
    Called "The Collaborators," the third episode of "Mad Men"'s sixth season illustrated the politics of appeasement and double dealings, as seen in love, war, and the corporate sale of beans.
  • Pestilence, Death, Sloth -- And Other Bewildering Moments In The Latest Facebook Ad
    Facebook recently launched "Airplane," its second-ever TV spot, via Best Agency in the World (and that's a fact, son!), from Wieden+Kennedy/Portland -- and it's worse than the first ad. Really.
  • Episode 601-602: The Doorway -- Or, Death Con 5, As You Leica!
    In this season's opener, we quickly learn that not much has changed, insofar as our antihero, Don Draper, is the type of guy who goes to heaven (Honolulu, with his bikinied TV star wife) but drags his own hell with him ("Dante's Inferno," a tome which we later learn is a gift from his mistress.)
  • 'Mad Men''s Jon Hamm: Privacy And Privates
    Earlier this week, showrunner Matthew Weiner released a "preview video" in which NOT ONE IMAGE WAS NEW! Every cut was from previous seasons. Oh, Weiner, do you think you can so easily toy with your legion of rabid fans?
  • Lena And The Lean-In Lady
    This Sunday, "Lean In," Sheryl Sandberg's just-published and hotly debated career primer for women, will debut at number one on "The New York Times" Best Sellers list. A week ago, "Girls," Lena Dunham's HBO hotly debated series about women of the millennial generation, wrapped its second season. On the surface, Lena vs. "Lean In" would seem to be a study in contrasts. But they actually have a good deal in common.
  • Sandberg, Sexism, And The C-Suite
    Sheryl Sandberg sure has stirred up a shitstorm: Try to say that fast five times. To begin with, the idea that the goodiest of the super hard-working, ladder-climbing, well-heeled, shiny-haired, corporate good girls of the Fortune 500 would become the outspoken Pope of 21st century feminism is something of a head-spinner.
  • Is Martha Stewart Living?
    It's Women's History Month, bitches! I kid -- but so far the first week of March seems to have been less a celebration of female progress and more a free-flowing attack on various 50-foot women.
  • Marissa, Sheryl And The Human Race
    The response to Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer's work stances shared historical similarities with the latest war on women.
  • Narci-Sisterhood Is Powerful
    Right up front, one of the problems with Beyonce's HBO documentary "Life is but a Dream" is that it's called a documentary. Because no matter how compelling a public figure and glam superstar you are, talking close into your MacBook with your-unmade-up (but still flawless) face does not a documentary make.
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