You know what I'm fucking sick and tired of? Blatant bullshit lies. For once, I'm not just talking about Bush, either.

I saw two commercials tonight that pissed me off. Commercials in general have been the bane of my existence since afternoon cartoons and Baby Wanna Walk, but that is a discussion for another time.

The first commercial I saw was one that Shell Oil has started running. It's talking about this marine biologist whose job it is to make sure that the marine life near one of Shell's oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is protected from the effects of drilling. The part that pisses me off is that Shell is trying to make themselves look all noble for having a marine biologist on staff to protect the environment. As if we don't all know that Shell could give less than a shit about marine life or any other life for that matter, with the exception of the life that ended millions of years ago and gave rise to fossil fuels. Shell is looking out for the environment either because they have to thanks to some sort of regulations, or they're doing it as pure PR. No one is going to mistake Shell, or any other oil company for that matter, for an environmentally friendly company. To imply that they are is a gross fucking lie.

The other commercial I saw was for Revlon and some goo that they're pushing on women. Somewhere in the spot, there was some line about how this particular product allows a woman to show her "natural beauty." In fact, I think "Natural Beauty" was the name of the product. How exactly is some manufactured concoction from Revlon "natural"? Hey, I'm not saying makeup doesn't sometimes look good on a woman, but don't fucking call it what it isn't. If it were "natural," she wouldn't be spreading this strange brown chemical all over her face. There's no un-assholish sounding way to put this, but women use this stuff because it has some sort of enhancing effect (an effect which is often unnecessary, by the way) over what's "natural", whether the effect is real or perceived. Otherwise, they wouldn't bother with it, right?

Hey, why the hell do I have to feel like an asshole for pointing out the truth, anyway?

Why do we put up with this lying shit? Whether it's the government or advertisers or whoever that are bald-face lying to us, we just don't seem to care. Am I making too big of a deal out of this? Is it wrong of me to look for even a little bit of truth in our daily discourse? Why are we such pussies that we can't just take some honesty?

"Shell: Protecting the environment because we have to. But at least we're doing it."

"Revlon: Make yourself look prettier!"

See, that wasn't so bad, now was it?