Attack Ads! questions the dominance of media supported mainly by the corrupting influence of commercial advertising sponsorship, and aims to raise both awareness and outrage at the limitations such a system produces.
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How good is online search? A better question might be how good could it be if the suits in the executive suites let it get good? We may never know, sadly, and that's the topic of today's Episode 288: On The Tips of Our Fingers. Find the Show Notes page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/08/episode-288-on-tips-of-our-fingers.html
It's one thing to reduce the weight of our things with new materials and construction techniques. It's quite another, though, to lighten them so much that their functional lives are compromised, leaving one with useless junk. I explore all-too-often tension between long-lived and lightened in this Episode 287: The Ephemeral & The Ethereal. Find the Show Notes Page at:…
We've all heard the saying: never meet your idols. Well, folks, let me give you one very real example of a fallen idol in this Episode 286: The Great Granny Patches Gambit. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/07/episode-286-great-granny-patches-gambit.html
Why do so many of the companies that provide us with stuff need to be ginormous? For that matter, why must too many of them outright abuse their workers? I look at this just a bit in this Episode 285: Laboring Upstream On the River of Shit. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/07/episode-285-laboring-upstream-on-river.html
Has anyone ever wondered what might happen if untruths both large and small continue to be used by people to sell shit, perhaps in diabolical ways, and "increase engagement"? Actually, several have, years ago. And now we're close to living that dystopia, on which I comment in this Episode 284: Bath Bombing the Internet. Find the Show Notes Page at:…
In this Bonus Episode I read excerpts from former President Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 Commencement Address to the graduates and staff of the Sorbonne in France (referred to by some as the "Man In The Arena" speech). Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/06/bonus-episode-teddy-roosevelts-1910.html
I completely realize that my insistence on correcting other people's mistakes is a complete mistake on my part. Still. I do it. For me, forget about capital, and concentrate on usufruct. It's something I do here in this Episode 283: Privilege Requires Usufruct! Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/05/episode-283-privilege-requires-usufruct.html
Modern advertising and military propaganda efforts share quite a few common elements. How many they share should surprise and even shock us all. I explore this topic in this Episode 282: Many Voices Make Lies Work. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/05/episode-282-many-voices-make-lies-work.html Find the Show Notes for Episode 34:…
Using computers that can more or (mostly) less function as if they were "intelligent" is all the rage today, especially in business. Why hire a person when a machine can do the job? Others are goofing around with these machines as well, including my own brother. I explore some of his recent goofs in this Episode 281: My Brother's Experiment. Find the Show Notes at:…
Definitions can be difficult sometimes, especially when the word you are floundering to define doesn't really have a concrete definition, but rather a multitude of different applications and associations. It's best then to define something with double negatives, as I try to demonstrate in this Episode 280: Sky Father The Uncrumbly. Find the Show Notes at:…
Categorizing certain things is important. Over-categorizing them, though, can be more damaging to one's understanding than not categorizing things at all. Lately, I've realized that categorizations have impeded understanding our world to the point that perhaps we should just jettison certain categorizations altogether. Hence, Episode 279: Why Capitalists Don't Exist. Find the Show Notes at:…
