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Don’t Buy: Kentucky Grilled Chicken

Apparently this surfaced back in March and I’m just now reading it: KFC is now serving grilled chicken?
Louisville-based KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc., hopes grilled chicken will lure back health-conscious consumers who dropped fried chicken from their diets, or cut back on indulging.
When are fast-food chains going to realize that they have NO [...]

Don’t Buy: Post Secret

Once upon a time, Post Secret felt like a neat discovery that you’d made on your own. Sure, the secrets were out on the Internet – but they were still wrapped up in a sense of hush-hush. Post Secret wasn’t really fodder for discussion among friends; the site was, in itself, a little secret.
But then [...]

Don’t Buy: Cuil

I wanted to like Cuil.
Seriously, I did. Have you ever seen the Googlezon video? I have been forced to watch this video in every communications class I’ve ever taken (and that’s a lot of times, since I’m a communications major), and it is the stuff of nightmares. Sure, Google seems all fun [...]

Don’t Buy: Father-Daughter Purity Balls

The thing I don’t get about evangelical Christianity is how damn creepy it is. If these people aren’t watching Jesus torture!porn or subscribing to “told you so!” e-mail services for after they’re Raptured, they’re celebrating the celibacy bond between…father and daughter?
The idea of a purity ring is silly in the first place – when two [...]

Don’t Buy: The New Facebook

I was a Facebook Specialist for most of my titled career. It’s only fair that I talk about Facebook and its new face-lift.

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I was told that this new update resembles how the Facebook iPhone application looks like. Facebook segmented everyone’s profile into tabs to fit on the tiny screen. If the iPhone is the cool [...]

Don’t Buy: RIP stands for…?

Now, we all know Princess Diana has been dead for a little more than 10 years due to the celebration(?) that happened in honor of her last summer. And to the media and the promotion that went around that, let her be dead! I mean, I’m sure she was a nice lady, and I don’t [...]

Don’t Buy: Television using viral videos for “cool factor”

This happens about every 4 years or so. There is a big push to get 18 - 25 year olds to go vote. P. Diddy tried it with his Vote or Die (which didn’t really work because Diddy was on his way out like a decade ago). Or how about when there was a push [...]

Buy: Batshit Crazy Celebs who Still Manage to Hold Down Endorsement Deals

I was checking out the blog of a former co-worker of mine this morning, and stumbled upon a YouTube video for the latest Naomi Campbell commercial she shot for SoBe Life Water.  Obvious comments about the content of said commercial aside, I think it’s AMAZING that SoBe, owned by Pepsi, has retained the spokesmanship of [...]

Don’t Buy: Likeable Entertainment Couples Breaking Up

Every once in a while there is a couple in the entertainment industry that I don’t totally despise. And almost every time they break up. Example one was Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling (which begs a separate question… where did McAdams go?). It just makes me wonder, if they can’t, how can I?
But another couple [...]

Don’t Buy: Budweiser

Keepin’ it classy, ladies!

One of this week’s major headlines is the sale of Anheuser-Busch to Belgian beer company InBev. InBev currently produces Stella Artois, Hoegaarden, and my personal favorite, Staropramen. In this video from CNN.com, reporter Susan Roesgen poses the question, “Could the king of beers be knocked off the throne by a company headquartered [...]