A blog companion to the book by Susan Campbell
Linda Bean, of the L.L. Bean family, ran afoul of the Federal Elections Commission by donating too much money to a pro-Trump PAC. Here’s where things get tricky: Bean, the granddaughter of L.L. Bean founder Leon Leonwood Bean, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. She is a member of the retailer’s board and …
Continue reading “So Linda Bean steps in it and all hell breaks loose”
Kellogg’s moved to pull its ads from Breitbart News, which said that didn’t hurt a bit, but then called for a boycott of the cereal company. “We regularly work with our media-buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned with our values as a company,” Kellogg’s said in a …
So here’s a trend: If you don’t agree with the politics behind a product, boycott that product, as people are doing for Ivanka Trump’s line of clothing. How you spend your money is on you, but here’s a list of suggestions.
This idea is not original with me but I believe I will start spending my money in places where I agree more with the politics surrounding gun legislation. Actually, states that don’t agree with my views on gun safety are often the same ones that don’t agree with my views on reproductive rights and other issues …
Continue reading “So I’m now considering boycotting a whole buncha states”
Monetize your dissent. And thank you, Mr. Miller. Yes, I watched the Republican debate last night, and showed my ass on both Facebook and Twitter. Afterward, I went to bed feeling strangely empty. Boiled down, we’re going to carpet bomb the desert, build a great wall, and we must understand that political correctness will kill …
Yesterday, I found myself fuming on the inside as I tried to keep smiling on the outside. I get it. This is an attitude I have built for myself. We are in crunch time in my classes. I’m also advising students, who are desperate to get their all-important PIN numbers so they can register for next …
As a promotion at a new store in New York City, Chick-fil-A offered free chicken for a year to the first 100 people in line. But the winners had to have a valid ID, which pretty much leaves out the homeless. But then this is the same restaurant chain whose president has some throw-back ideas …
Several news websites reported late yesterday that the Duggars — the face of the Quiverfull movement, with a sexual predator in their midst — are mulling over a spin-off television show that will focus on the next generation — though the new show won’t include the sexual predator, one would suppose. (Did everyone see this? …
Continue reading “A Duggar spin-off show? Are you fucking kidding me?”
He was costing them money, says Leslie Salzillo, of Daily Kos. After quoting from an Indianapolis Business Journal article that station management had contemplated giving Rushbo the heave-ho for a year and a half, Salzillo writes: And there it is, once again – bonafide proof the boycott against Rush Limbaugh and his sponsors is not …
Connecticut is the first state to boycott Indiana, after that state’s new, discriminatory “Religious Freedom” law, which is uniquely bad. Why “uniquely?” From that ThinkProgress piece: Under that section, a “person” (which under the law includes not only an individual but also any organization, partnership, LLC, corporation, company, firm, church, religious society, or other entity) …
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