Tactful Conservatives Mouthing Off

Dumb move, duh. But still, what a wonderful place to express your political opinions.

Crashing The Superbowl With A Homemade Doritos Ad

It’s almost everyone’s favorite time of year! No, I’m not talking about Christmas, but the NFL playoffs. The epic four weeks of guts and glory pits the best teams in the football, culminating in America’s most-celebrated past-time: the Super Bowl (I’m still waiting for Obama to make the Monday after a national holiday). Billions across the globe will circle around glowing televisions, devour thousand of calories in nachos and beer, and watch one of the best sporting events on the planet.

The Super Bowl also brings out some of the best creative juices, as all of those eyeballs have become a major locust for brands. Some may argue that the advertisements during the Super Bowl have become as big as the Super Bowl itself. Personally, I still long for the day when the Pets.com hand-puppet could make his triumphant return to the big screen.

Taking user generated content to the next level, DORITOS held a gigantic Crash The Super Bowl contest where everyday people submitted their original content to potentially be aired as a Super Bowl commercial. Now thousands of entries have been narrowed down to a slim 5, who will go head-to-head beginning on January 4th for nacho-cheesy supremacy. Bookmark the site, because for every 100,000 votes DORITOS receives, a lucky voter will receive $10,000 in sweet DORITOS cash, up to a maximum of $100,000!

Public Restrooms: Obama’s Next Campaign Stop

Hot air? Maybe. But in this nail biter of an election season, the incumbent party will leave no hand dryer unturned.

5,000 Janitors In America Have PhDs

The Article: There Are 5000 Janitors in the US with PhD’s by Kyle Vanhemert in Gizmodo.

The Text: There are 18,000 parking lot attendants in the U.S. with college degrees. There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs. In all, some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don’t require their level of education. Why?

The data comes from a the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and can be seen here in handy, depressing chart form:

At the Chronicle, where the above chart was posted, Richard Vedder argues that maybe we place too much importance on higher education, citing a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research:

This week an extraordinarily interesting new study was posted on the Web site of America’s most prestigious economic-research organization, the National Bureau of Economic Research. Three highly regarded economists (one of whom has won the Nobel Prize in Economic Science) have produced “Estimating Marginal Returns in Education,” Working Paper 16474 of the NBER. After very sophisticated and elaborate analysis, the authors conclude “In general, marginal and average returns to college are not the same.” (p. 28)

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You Don’t Believe In What Your Mouth Runs

Cannons by Youth Lagoon off of The Year of Hibernation.