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You know, guys, how yesterday I said Louis Vuitton was worse than Monsanto? Well I was totally kidding in the first place, but I was especially kidding after I saw this famously multitasking LV ad lining the new issue of the Middle East arts/culture mag Bidoun, because among other things the new issue of Bidoun features an amazing piece on the heart surgery editor Lisa Farjam received when she was a three-year-old. Her mom, afraid to tell her why she needed to go to the hospital, instead told her she was receiving a surprise... Mr. Rogers! (Her mom had spent a year leaning on Fred Rogers to show up.) "He had perfect nails," she remembers. But the surprises kept coming! Click the ad to find out! More »
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The latest Vanity Fair features an extensive investigation into an eeeevil corporation called Monsanto. You may have heard of Monsanto; they make genetically-modified seeds. Long a target of the Frankenfood fearmongers and self-righteous polisci majors, Monsanto makes fancy seeds that are immune to the destructive forces of the weed-killer Roundup, which Monsanto also makes, and because Monsanto's seeds are patented, farmers are not supposed to re-plant the new seeds they get from the crops they grow. But some do anyway, which is why Monsanto has to employ a vast network of spies to keep constant watch over farms throughout the world, following them with hidden cameras, rifling through their seedage, testing their farms for Monsanto's technology and filing hundreds of lawsuits against rogue farmers and seed dealers. (Oooooh, poor farmers! Let them keep their ethanol subsidies!) This fascinating probe into the dark heart of capitalism comes to you courtesy the magazine's "Green issue," which features on its cover the centimillionaire entertainer Madonna, who knows a thing or two about zealously guarding intellectual property. More »
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