I'd like to teach the world to sing...

Well, I enjoyed the game. A blow-out like that is usually the sort of game that only the fans of the winning team could love. In '86 when Da Bears blew out New England 46 - 10, I enjoyed the slaughter but I realized that Patriot fans and the rest of the country might have been a little bored with the lop-sided game. Peyton Manning is probably a nice guy but he owns like 30 Papa John's franchises and appears on commercials with the fucking mook who, despite being a mega-millionaire can't "afford" to provide insurance for his employees one moment and the next, is appearing in commercials with Peyton where he's willing to give away like a million free pizzas because that's just good business sense, I guess. By the way, I think Math School graduates figured that *Obamacare* for his help would add @ 10 cents to each pizza. Yikes?

I missed most of halftime mostly out of lack of interest and a desire to get the recyclables and trash out in order to honor those fellas and their unannounced New Years resolution to pick up Ferrerman's stuff first thing in the morning rather than later in the afternoon. Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, I'll put that stuff out the night before like everyone else.

So, not much Bruno Mars and The Chili Peppers for me. If I missed any of the rather lame commercials, they're all online. I think all of them were online before the SB too, for those who couldn't wait. The Dylan one surprised me. I never associated Bob with cars, particularly those of the Chrysler persuasion, or with advertising. And as I learned later on Facebook, you really can't associate Chrysler with America anymore as Italian Fiat has majority ownership and intends to completely own it sooner than later. We're talking having the headquarters in Italy rather than Detroit. That's not American anymore.

Evidently, neither is Coke. They really, REALLY pissed off conservatives with this Super Bowl commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs&list=PLCIVZWq1FAwcWJmgdF5o3-QTZZ-OnBUgA

Now THAT is a well done, beautiful piece of advertising even if it is selling a product rife with high-fructose corn syrup designed by scientists to erode the enamel off your teeth and promote diabetes and obesity. Hate the commercial because of that, if you will, but don't hate it because it's beautiful and portrays America as a beautiful country, filled with a variety of beautiful people, who speak a variety of languages.Conservatives are very upset about the latter and are calling for a boycott of Coca Cola. Good luck with that, especially in the South where Coke is not only headquartered (Atlanta) but is the national drink of the Confederacy. Number 2 is Bud Light, if you're scoring at home.

A boycott is probably their best choice because I don't see Coke apologizing to America for portraying America as a melting pot of peoples and cultures. No matter what conservatives say, it's always been this way. They don't like it but every non-Native American born here has ancestors who came from elsewhere in the world. Even while we were murdering the indigenous Indians here and bringing Africans here in chains, we were doing it with a lot of different accents.

We'll see how this boycott plays out, particularly below the Bible belt where those folks really like to suck some Coke. It's ill-advised hand-tipping to the rest of America when you declare your perception of the country to be more Aryan than diverse like America actually is. Very hard to tell tens of millions of citizens and citizens in training that they don't fit with your party's perception of America. You all are really looking to get blown out. Ya know, I think we'd all like to see that happen...