With the approach of this year's Pesach, I feel neither fortified nor replenished. I am, instead, trembling with contempt for those in my Jewish community ignoring the core lessons of the seder.
Its mock Mickey is a genetically modified super-violent pipsqueak, let loose from the sewers by blundering engineers; rather than the jaunty steamboat his predecessor commandeered, he wreaks murderous havoc.
No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.
Stephens hearkens to the infamous Yale Halloween incident from 2015, wondering why students weren't expelled for speaking intemperately about racially insensitive costumes.
This year, we've gained a new tradition. Campaign's Christmas Turkey of Week being wrong. After declaring Amazon's 'Joyride' a Turkey in December 2023, the anonymized reporter has put out 2024's fourth Turkey of the 'Week,' Coca-Cola's AI-made 'Holidays are coming.' Naturally, that's awkward because it scored top marks across all of System1's customer-based metrics. This criticism seems misaligned when the ad actually performed well with consumers, highlighting a gap in understanding how advertising resonates with the public.
Since the start of the pandemic, Hoover and her dedicated readers have reconfigured the publishing landscape: The author, with nearly 4.5 million followers across her social-media platforms, is the most prominent author on BookTok, with eight of the 25 highest-selling print titles in 2022 attributed to Hoover novels.