What is your idea for the most disgustingly delicious pizza?

Domino's Tests Limits Of What Humans Will Eat [The Onion]

New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less[The Onion]

What's so poignant about this time is the uncertainty. When you get to Blockbuster are they going to have your video? Did someone else rent it? Is there going to be a line? Are the alarms going to sound when you walk out the front door? It was very difficult for the people that lived during this era.

Difficult indeed.

Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past [The Onion]

Warning: the characters are intentionally portrayed as casually racist "rich white banker" types, so if you're offended by politically incorrect satire, before you start a comment war you might want to head over to the YouTube page and read what's already been written there, as it's pretty much all been covered.

Oh, and a second note, from a Metafilter reader who takes issue with the whole concept of tracing the meltdown back to loans made to the poor, whether black or white:

And to get even more nitpicky, one can also say that it's wrong to keep blaming the whole mortgage/credit crisis on dodgy subprime mortgage lending, period. In other words, it's not just the racial overtones of who they were fingering as an obviously bad credit risk, it's the class overtones too, and both are equally wrong assumptions to make. "Subprime" has been overused and misused as a term to make the rich and supposedly-middle-class feel snooty and superior to "those" kinds of people, whose loans have caused the trouble, when really many of those "rich" people may have high incomes, but are also highly in debt (credit cards, cars) and using equally shady mortgage products to "own" their McMansions and to keep their posh lifestyles going. It's just that their motgage products don't always get lumped in as subprime, but rather get broken out into Option ARM's or even just regular old ARM's, not to mention their HELOCS (home equity lines of credit) which use their (perceived) home values as a piggy bank.

The husband and wife team behind the "musical on a mission" have cited the books "Nickel and Dimed" and "Selling Women Short" as sources, but it might just be better to read the books, based on reactions to the show, which include descriptions like "ham-handed satire" and "bland and witless."

As far as effective agitprop goes, it looks like South Park still holds the award for most entertaining spin on the pleasures and dangers of the super-mega-corporation. Or, as one review puts it, "Bad art never helped anyone's cause."

Resources:
"Selling Women Short" at Amazon
"Nickel and Dimed" at Amazon
walmartopia.com

"Attention, Shoppers: Anguish in Aisle 4" [New York Times]
"Creators Of 'Walmartopia' Discuss Show's Success" [ny1.com (video)]
"Walmartopia" [Theatermania.com]

(Photo: Carol Rosegg)

[The Onion via Credit Slips]

This entrant satirizes the SUV industry. With their own tools.

Irony, you are mistress most fetching.

View it here quick, before Chevy gets wise and takes it down.

UPDATE: Link is down. Posting screenshots shortly...

UPDATE: Screenshots posted after the jump.

UPDATE: A preserved version of the parody in question made it to YouTube:

(Thanks to KevinQ for the YouTube catch!)

Less than two hours after getting posted here and on CBCNews, a user-generated Chevy Tahoe ad, an entrant in the "Make a Chevy Tahoe Ad and Win a Free Trip" contest, is down. The ad mocked SUVs, gas guzzling, planet raping, and inane car ads. For some reason, Chevy didn't want that on their site.

Whoddathinkit.

Good thing we had the foresight to take screen shots.

Guess Chevy's definition of the American Revolution doesn't include the freedom of speech.

Consumer-Made Ads Backfires for Chevy [CBCnews]