Tag Archives: TV

A painful waste of paint

The new Sony Bravia TV ad showcases a massive explosion of paint that took 10 days and 250 people to film. The amount of paint and other materials required to accomplish this include: 70,000 litres of paint358 single bottle bombs33 sextuple air cluster bombs22 triple hung cluster bombs268 mortars33 triple mortars22 double mortars358 metres of… Read More »

Should Bush fire Donald Rumsfeld?

Last weekend, I watched a Frontline/Washington Post special entitled “Rumsfeld’s War” on cable TV (can’t remember which channel) that suggested the Iraq “war” (perhaps invasion would be a better word) was very much one man’s fanatical drive to bitch-slap the uniformed military command at the Pentagon into submission and turn the U.S. military into a… Read More »