Bad Advertising

I was reading Towleroad this afternoon when I became the unsuspecting victim of bad advertising by Google's Ad[non]sense program. The following is a screen shot of my experience:

 

 

If you haven't yet followed the link, Towleroad, "A Site with Homosexual Tendencies," is a popular source for gay and lesbian news online. It is unapologetically liberal, regularly bashing McCain's idiocy as well as advocating against Proposition 8 in California as late.

Typically, the automatically inserted ads by Google's Adsense are the likes of gay dating sites and adoption services or more generic general interest ads. Yet in spite of this context, as you can see above, an ad for Minnesota Senator and Republican dickhead Norm Coleman snuck into my gay escape reading. Surely Google took into account my location (in Minneapolis) in selecting the ad, but come one, really? Coleman?

I'm going to see Coleman's opponent Al Franken speak along with Senator Amy Klobuchar and Bill Clinton tomorrow night downtown. Fuck you, Coleman. You don't deserve the senate seat you stole from Paul Wellstone. Get the fuck off my internet too.

A Response to Ignorance

I recently posted on twitter/Facebook about the sad fact that we have a presidential ticket for the first time ever where both candidates (McCain and Palin) have been convicted of ethics violations before the election. (On a side note: How the FUCK has the media completely ignored the fact that Palin was found guilty of this!?!?!? I know they released the report at 7pm on last friday night, the time when stories are released in order to be killed since the news cycle is over for the weekend, but COME ON! This is a vice presidential cantidate!)

Anyway, after I posted this to my profile, I recieved this response:

I didnt get much into the keating 5 thing and I don't know much about it. As far as troopergate goes, that guy needed to be fired long before she stepped in. He tazed a 9 year old, was abusing his wife, and was drinking on the job. I'm more concerned with a socialist government then a leader that crossed a line to ... Read Moremake sure a bad guy was out of a position of power.

I posted this response:

I have a low tolerance for ignorance, especially when it appears on my facebook profile. Do you even know what socialist means? Socialism is a free high school education. Socialism is fire and police departments that protect you every day funded by the state. Apparently you're so ignorant that you believe the Republican talking points and are enough of a jerk to repeat them on people's facebook profiles who you don't even know (who the fuck are you? so what if we went to high school together, I don't know you.). So you'd rather have two people that are convicted of ethics violations running this country than "socialism". Great. I hope you don't have health insurance, I hope your kids go to an overcrowded underfunded high school, I hope your house burns down and the firefighters don't show up out of respect for you disdain for their "socialist" public services. Fuck you, go away.