I’m sure that title caught your attention! One of my good friends told me that once. He’s very wise. What he meant was that no matter what you feature you put on a crappy product, what spin you put on bad legislation, or how you re-brand your dirt bag country, bad is still bad!
That’s why I laughed out loud when I read that Nigeria is “re-branding” to shed its corrupt image. Re-branding? Do you really think the slogan “Nigeria: Good People, Great Nation” is going to make me forget that …

Jennifer Figge is a fraud. She really didn’t become the first woman to swim the Atlantic.  Turns out, Michael Phelps (with or without the aid of cannibus) couldn’t swim that far that fast. And of course, the AP should have known that, but journalistic standards have dropped lower than Pam Anderson’s neckline at a heavy metal concert.
But, this did get me thinking about people who do this sort of thing and I think I’ve found a shortcut.
Here are some remarkable things I didn’t do:

I didn’t sell 4 billion copies of …

The Chinese government blasted the new Guns N Roses album, calling it “an attack on the Chinese nation” according to the AP. Gee, I thought it was just an attack on the ears. Axl, really?  It took you 14 years to release that mess? Luckily, I was able to preview it without buying it. If I had purchased it, I would have taped over the hole and used it as a coaster.
I haven’t been this disappointed in an album since Van Halen III. Industry experts say that Chinese Democracy by …