Ambiguous logical relations in folk art

I found this in the shed of my parents, while taking my son to visit his grandparents. It belonged, originally, to my grandmother. There are two distinct ways to interpret the sentence: 'Without a cat, a home is just a house' which was probably the intent of the author, and certainly the intent of my cat-loving grandmother and cat-loving parents. I, however, prefer the alternative, where the phrase 'without a cat' attaches to 'house' rather than the sentence as a whole. : or, to make it explicit: 'A home is just (a house without a cat)'

New Milk campaign for men: ‘Everything I do is wrong’

In mid July, 2011, the California Milk Processor Board launched a new advertising campaign called ‘Everything I do is wrong,’ created by the same advertising firm, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, who started the wildly…

Burger King – the big seven incher

From Summer, 2009, Burger King's highly suggestive ad 'The Big Seven Incher.' This was collected by one of my students at McDaniel in the fall of 2010.

Classic ‘Keep America Beautiful’ PSA

The classic PSA from ‘Keep America Beautiful’, aired starting in 1971.

This aired starting on Earth Day, 1971 on broadcast television. It’s effect in the US was profound, both on littering behavior as well…

The Fake MLK Quote

In the days after the death of Osama bin Laden, this quote made its way around the various social networking sites:

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not

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People who misunderstand The Onion

From from 'Literally unbelievable', a tumblr blog dedicated to tracking facebook posts that misunderstand stories from the satirical newspaper The Onion.

Lisa Simpson demonstrates causal reasoning

The long-running primetime animated series 'The Simpsons' demonstrates the fallacy in some kinds of causal reasoning:

Pat Robertson on weightloss, metabolic science and cortisol

Pat Robertson, TV evangalist, gives weightless and metabolic advice on his religious show 'The 700 Club':