The Aqua Teen Hunger Force incident continues...

ATLANTA (AP) - The head of the Cartoon Network resigned Friday following a marketing stunt that caused a terrorism scare in Boston and led police to shut down bridges and send in the bomb squad.

Not that I'm one to get worked up over the trials and tribulations of executive types, but this is outrageous.  The head of Cartoon Network was pushed out of his job because of the incompetence of Boston city officials.  No one involved in the ad campaign could have expected that Boston would freak out at the sight of a cartoon character on a Lite-Bright.

It gets better...

All day I was reading comments about the Boston cartoon debacle, but I was a little bit surprised that the corporate exploitation angle was largely ignored.  I was also taken aback a bit by how dismissive and ridiculing some of the posters got.

I don't know much at all about the show in question, so I don't have any prejudgment based on whether the lightbox planters were working for something like Countdown (which I like a lot) or for something like Bill O'Reilly's show (whose full name I don't even know, and which I do not like).  I saw a lot of the show's fans spouting off, but I have to take those comments with a grain of salt because they like the show and might be biased in its favor.  I'm regarding the ad agency and the network and all involved as simply Corporation X, about which I have no preconceived notions.  I almost don't even want to know who they are so I can retain some objectivity.

Greetings from Dayton, Ohio. I just returned from handing out flyers for Democrat Stephanie Studebaker's campaign to replace Republican Mike Turner in the House of Representatives this fall. It wasn't an unpleasant assignment, since it was at the Dayton Blues Festival, featuring great music and delicious food.

Studebaker is a fantastic candidate for this year's election.
Studebaker for Congress

Strickland and Brown are doing well in the polls, so Ohio is clearly tired of the same old, same old Republican greed and short-sightedness. Stephanie got her start as a DFA member, but has never held political office. She is a veterinarian who has no ambitions to be a career politician. The current anti-incumbent feeling makes her an excellent candidate to run against Turner. Add to that her intelligence, her business experience, her progressive positions, her genuine, charming personality. They add up to a winner. The young team directing her campaign is enthusiastic and experienced. But we need more help.