Advertising: the more things change…

That’s the good Dr. Samuel Johnson, English man of letters, musing about the state of advertising circa 1758. Quote and image discovered at the Experience Economist, along with a nice mini-rant about why people don’t like advertising. Mainly, it’s “because we beat them over the head with ads every where they go!”

I wonder what Dr. Johnson would think about the state of today’s advertising.

Election Day

Today is the day. After the campaigning, the bombast, the selling of the candidates and the mudslinging, it boils down to this.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point. – Winston Churchill

Go vote. The world is waiting.