The AdHole

When it comes to righteous (and generally justified) indignation, few things compare to the annual culture clash over the commercialization of Christmas (this column brought to you be the letter C). You’ve heard the pleas for holiday justice. “Jesus is the reason for the season!” “Put Christ back in Christmas.” “Someone please tell me what […]

Today is, if you haven’t guessed by the title and date, Easter Sunday. It has become an AdHole tradition of sorts to post an Easter-related blog this time of year, although I’ve never done so on Easter itself. (I can sense your excitement.) These posts have been both serious and decidedly less so. Although I’m […]

I am nothing if not on the cutting, nay, bleeding edge of all things pop culture and advertising related. (The previous sentence was foreshadowing, by the way.) Which is why I’m now giving you a review of a book that was published in August 2008. (See how that foreshadowing worked? Sweet.)
The book in question is […]

For the past couple of years, I’ve gone on a bit of tirade about the use – or lack thereof – of the words “Christmas” in advertising aired during the Christmas season. It always seemed beyond ridiculous that retailers would rather risk offending the millions of people buying Christmas presents than risk offending those folks […]

Today is Good Friday. It is the second holiest day of the year after Easter. Obviously, without the resurrection on Easter morning, Christ’s death on Friday would have been worse than pointless, it would have revealed Christ to be a fraud and there would be no Christian religion today. (Assuming, of course, that a true […]