Image copped from Harry, who found it via bumptious, who sez:

AXE. I love that name. Axe. Makes me wanna pillage a village. Or buy an SUV.

This ultra-masculine brand even helps you get laid by starry-eyed models when you're a giant, hairy, scrotum-resembling mascot named "Pitman."

You can find tips on how to pick up girls and watch films of women seducing the pizza boy at Axe's own website. My question is: Do the advertisers get some perverse glee by so blatantly disregarding the past, oh, say, thirty five years progress in cultural attitudes toward both men and women? Do they delight in reinforcing the notion that men are drooling morons with no better impulse than to score? That we somehow instinctively relate to a walking scrotum? As for what such ad campaigns say about women...well, I don't know where to begin.

The U.S. Senate has rejected the ammendment to ban same-sex marriage in a 50-48 vote. So, whew. I'm not surprised, no one expected it to pass, but it's nice to see the defeat actually happen. Put it this way, if those dipshits had passed it, we'd be facing an election year far worse than it already is. On the other hand, Republicans scored political points by getting Kerry and Edwards on record. Regardless of nuance (and this election will demonstrate how attentive voters are to the discrepancies Kerry's positions make), Bush and Cheney will use it to further their charge that their opponents are gay marriage supporters and/or "flip-floppers."