Posted 6:21 PM by Gene

If it's Sunday it must be Big-Double-A-Scribble Time:

1. Nobody is blaming the KFC disaster on Goddess. She has unleashed a number of disasters lately, starting with the liar James Frey. Yet Her uncritical fans plant more diamonds on Her tiara. When will even they wake up and behold the sanctimonious fraud She is?

And then let us not hold our breaths about Her biggest bet -- Her PRESIDENT.

2. Is The One sure he wants to cut FiatChrysler's ad budget? The MadAve frauds helped hosanna him into office. He's already ticked off the bankers.

3. TRANSLATION: The INBEV-Anheuser-Busch merger isn't working. Despite its stock price going upupUP lately most beer drinkers seem to know INBEV's not an American company, and Bud is no longer an American beer. (Nor does it help that it wasn't that good in the first place.) Tugging at the heartstrings will not tug at the geography.

4. TRANSLATION: Religion gets a high-tech version of Elmer Gantry. He was a marketer too. The MadAve types could spend a whole week making jokes about religious types. Preachers who think they can appease folks with flashy ads may have nothing religious to fall back on. It appears not to be working anyway.

5.

In Times Like These, the Best Bet Is Winning Ugly

KFC lost ugly. Does it win its bet?

6. This should be branded on the forehead of every clown who lives and dies by his computer and his electronic appendages:

A Digital Myth: Technology Doesn't Make Life Easier

As some people in Southern California and Boston have discovered.

7. We've saved the best for last:

Broadcast Upfront Could Be Down as Much as 20%

The bad news is most of it goes to cable, or to replicate junk TV on the Web. But finally perhaps making a profit insulting your viewers is not the sure thing it used to be.

And again: Why should the Dow be at 10,000?