A Man Said To The Universe

A mother's prayers connects her child to god.

Cripes, how many ways could this be wrong? Well at least three. Lets have at them, shall we?

1. Isn't salvation a personal issue?
   

   I thought salvation was a individual's choice, accepting the yoke of irrationality and thereby salvation. I suppose this could refer to the 'requirement' to evangelize, but still, the mother can do nothing when it comes down to it.

   
   


2. I thought the xian god was in everything and everyone
   

   What is with this connect business? Isn't their deity hiding in between quarks and such? Why would there be any need to 'connect''?

   
   


3. What, god needs a memo on a new empoyee?
   

   Don't they claim omniscience for their god? Did something change if the fairy tale that I didn't hear about? What if a mother didn't pray? Would the kid slide under god's radar?

   
   

Can't we get a little internal coherence here? You guys are the one's making claims about your omnipotent imaginary friend, can you try to at least remember what you have said and try to make a little better sense?

NPR's This I Believe series can run the gamut from the sublime to the trite. But on those occasions when someone nails one, it is a beautiful thing. The latest essay is just one of those.

I Am Evolution

She makes that critical, if subtle, point between "believing evolution" and "believing in evolution". And in doing so creates a clarity of how the continuing battle against creationist fools must be fought. Thank you, Ms. Dunsworth.

Edge shaving gel has a couple of new product variants out: Edge Eclipse and Edge Energy. Both ads purport to show what it is like when you use the product, but like so many other Bad Ads®, the image given has some unsettling consequences. Lets look at each, shall we?

Edge Energy

"Fully charged with masculine scents of cedar, leather, ginger, and musk, Edge Energy is sure to start your day out right - and the extra aloe and extra moisturizer will keep you looking good all day and in to the nignt."

The commercial shows "mod" dressed hot chicks in green strapped to rocket packs flying up into the dudes nose and staging a dance party in his sinuses. Let me repeat that... dance party in his sinuses. I know I am supposed to have willing suspension of disbelief, but Ewwwww.

Edge Eclipse

Edge Eclipse has more aloe, more moistureizers and an exotic mix of cardamom, sandalwood, and balsam - all of which are more than capable of providing maximum pleasure for your face, and whatever lucky person you want to get close to.

This commercial, playing up the skin care angle, zoom in on the shaver's face to reveal the obligatory hot chicks, dressed in orange, squirting moisturizers onto the hairs, cavorting in a sexy carwash manner. What fun! What fun, that is, until the razor comes. What then for the pretties? What then...

Now, as a disclaimer, I don't go looking for bad ads. I comment on ones that strike me as bad on first viewing. And both of these have the "we didn't think it to the next step" quality to them that makes them classic bad ads.

What a complete ass.

I certainly don't like that NSCE's site Expelled Exposed is more than a couple entries away from the movie site in a Google search so here is my part:

Expelled Exposed - Flunked, not Expelled: What Ben Stein isn't telling you about Intelligent Design.