I saw another bad advertisement on TV tonight.  It was an ad for some sort of medication.  I wrote the name of the drug down but don’t have the piece of paper with me.  The ad shows a grandmother with her two grandchildren walking through a forest.  In one scene, they are shown walking on a boardwalk.  In a later scene, the children are shown off-trail horsing around.  From my experience, whenever there is a boardwalk through a natural area, you are supposed to stay on the boardwalk and leave it under no circumstances.  A boardwalk is often used in wetlands or among sensitive plants to keep people from wandering off-trail, trampling plants, or causing damage to the ground.  Since a boardwalk is shown in the commercial, I would suspect the grandmother and kids are in an ecologically sensitive location.  Why are the grandkids horsing around on sensitive grounds off-trail then?

These ad agencies  must think we are stupid.  So far I have managed to bust the creators of the Toyota long-distance relationship ad and the banking ad where someone is probably using an unsecured WiFi access point.  I’m sure more faulty ads will make it to the airwaves.

Elgin News

Just a brief comment about a fellow who was robbed of his tacos in Downtown Elgin by a guy with a machete.  The article says the victim was robbed of 16 tacos he had paid $41 for.  Am I cheap, or is that a lot of money for those tacos?  Do the math.  It comes out to $2.56 per taco.  I know some places charge a lot for fancy tacos.  However, at the Mexican restaurant where I get tacos for lunch in Geneva, they only cost $1.59 each.  I think the Volcano Tacos from Taco Bell cost $1.39 each.  For these tacos to cost $2.56 each, they must have been huge or had some expensive meat in them.

I have more to say about a bar that wants to open in Downtown Elgin.  This new bar wants to get a license to serve liquor until 4AM on weekends.  Seriously?  Part of my ire may be due to the prohibitionist in me, but why should a place be open until 4AM, let alone serving alcohol up to that time?  During the week, they want to serve alcohol until 3AM.  What the hell???  I don’t think any establishment should be allowed to stay open past 1AM.  If you can’t get your party on and off by 1AM, there is something wrong with your priorities.  So this new bar already has one strike against it because of their insane request to serve alcohol until 3 or 4AM.  The second strike is because of the type of events they want to host.  They want to host kickboxing and martial arts events.  These are not the kinds of events that belong in Downtown Elgin.  Fights and martial arts exhibitions can be tastefully done, but they can also degenerate easily.  Thankfully the proposal would prohibit amateur boxing, ultimate fighting, and wrestling events if it passes.  I think this bar could prove popular, but I would much rather have something classier in Downtown Elgin.  Why risk allowing a business that could further harm the reputation of Elgin?