The Merely Obvious Will Do

I don’t want to sound like a one-track guy, but this is such low hanging fruit that I can’t resist hitting it. Seems CBS News (an oxymoron if ever there was one) threw up a little article about the hurricane that’s whirling around Hawaii. We’ll ignore the banner “Category 4 Hurricane Heads Toward Hawaii” headline. This is easy to ignore if you read the body of the article, which contradictorily states that the storm will pass Hawaii and probably only inflict heavy surf. No, the part of this article that really caught my attention was the graphic at the top of the article. There’s what appears to be a weather sat shot of a hurricane. Underneath the picture is the caption “Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 3 story early August 11, 2007, as it headed toward the waters south of Hawaii.” All well and good, but the picture is of a hurricane in the Atlantic. If you look at the picture you can make out Cube in the lower left corner, the Bahamas in the left center, and the east coast of the U.S. on the left side. I guess Flossie wasn’t photogenic enough from space to go with truth in graphics.

In another bit of non-shocking CBS news we peruse this article. Seems Hezbollah (due to the disparities in Arabic translation it can also be spelled Hizbulla, Hillsbella, and HellsBells) took out some ad space on a billboard in Windsor, Canada. As you can see, big as life at the bottom of the billboard, is the CBS logo. Way to work in that product placement. You know why we have advertising executives in this world? Because there are some things prostitutes just won’t do. Not quite sure exactly what they were trying to accomplish by buying a billboard in Canada, but fools and their money rarely consummate for too long. One nice, interesting theory that’s been hatched in the Ares and Athena think tank is that Windsor is across the river from Detroit. Greater Detroit is home to the largest concentration of Arab Muslims in the U.S. Do the math and insert your own 10 cent theory from that starting point. Little side note to Hassan Nasrallah, the beard boy in the middle with the funny hat: You get further in the West by using small furry animals or babies in your advertising.

Ares