Legal Commentary

A 'Real Beauty' Blunder
A Business Week article says that Dove may be on the hot-seat with consumers for a recent leak about it's "Real Beauty" campaign. According to advertisement airbrush artist Pascal Dangin, the women in Dove's "Real Beauty" ads go through extensive...

Limerick of the Week: Fenwick
Nothing like a trip to the beauty shop to address a bad hair day (left). But when is a beauty shop receptionist a partner and when is she an employee? In Fenwick v. Unemployment Compensation Committee, we learn that the...

The Blogosphere is a Cruel Place
The NYT has this piece today linking the suicide of a 40-year old ad executive with cruel comments posted about him on advertising blogs. Paul Tilley, the creative director of DDB Chicago, jumped from the upper floor of the Fairmont...

Nipples and Liberals
An Adrants blogger opined: … This is America. Nudity is bad. Nudity is something to be shunned. Natural beauty? Screw that. Put a potato sack on! Cover that God-given beauty. Sex is bad...

Sarah Palins Beauty Pageant Video
Egalia at Tennessee Guerilla Women points how here that blogs linking to Sarah Palin’s 1984 beauty pageant swimsuit competition are attempting to trivialize her for doing something traditionally feminine when she was young, using this HuffPo piece as an example...

Hey, Too Many Jims is still monitoring the cruel neutrality.
I thought he'd given up. Even took him off the blog rolls. But he's all geared up now. The best way to see how the monitoring is going is to check the "labels" in the sidebar. Here are the significant ones:Clinton Negative (3)Clinton Neutral (25)Clinton Positive (2)McCain Neutral (6)McCain Positive (1)Obama negative (6)Obama neutral (31)Obama Positive (1)See? Cruel neutrality it is!And here's the original post where I take my vow of cruel neutrality and point to Monitoring the Cruel Neutrality.

Male Enhancement Products
Recalled Nationwide by Nature & Health

Exploding iPod Touch
Mother of Injured Boy Sues Apple

Employee Theft
Mother and daughter ordered to pay $1 million settlement for writing false paychecks.

Labor and Delivery
Judge awards mother $6 million medical malpractice settlement after baby was born with brain injuries.

Child Abuse Settlement
The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care...