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Correlation

17 Tuesday May 2022

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America, billboards, highways

On the road:

“Over 3000 guns”

“Trust”

“18 days”

“The only way”

“Recovery is possible”

“Boots, bullets, britches, bologna”

The marketplace of…

29 Wednesday Dec 2021

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billboards, marketing, missouri

Yesterday, across Missouri.

An apparent juxtaposition of competing interests.

Competing interests?

You’d think.

Same state, different worlds

28 Tuesday Dec 2021

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billboards, Corona virus, COVID-19, exclusion, inclusion, missouri, pandemic, religion, vaccination

1920s advertising technique for our 21st Century.

A series of highway billboards in east central Missouri:

“Getting back together safely…”

“…starts with getting vaccinated…”

“…We’re stronger together…”

“…Schedule your vaccine at mostopscovid.com.”

We’re all in this together.

And, a few miles to the east, another series of billboards:

“Are all religions equal?”

“Investigate the founders.”

“Only Jesus lived a perfect life.”

So, apparently, we’re not in this together.

Conversations With Billboards: It’s always that single wedge issue, isn’t it?

19 Friday Jul 2013

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abortion, billboards, missouri

Previously:

Conversations With Billboards (July 15, 2013)

On separate billboards along U.S. Highway 50 in west central Missouri:

Are childhood nutrition, health care, education, and enrichment in the mix, too? Just asking.

Conversations With Billboards

15 Monday Jul 2013

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billboards, education, gambling, missouri

On a billboard along U.S. Highway 50 in west central Missouri:

“If we paid for education directly and eliminated the middleman wouldn’t that actually be more efficient?”

“Is that 888 number for people who support education too much?”

“Do all well funded Missouri public schools still use chalkboards?”

“As the Black Wind Withers in the Sky, We Are Graced Dimly in Our Dreams”

28 Monday Jan 2013

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billboards, missouri

Along the westbound lane of U.S. Highway 50 east of Kansas City, the cult of the lost cause:

Still up on January 28, 2013, almost three months after the election.

Previously:

Uh, who’s paying for this? (August 17, 2012)

Well, that didn’t come to pass (November 14, 2012)

* title from a song by the Red Sparowes in their 2006 album, Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun.

If it isn’t one thing, it’s another

21 Saturday Jul 2012

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billboards, crazyfication factor, right wingnuttia

Wedge issue politics on billboards along a U.S. highway in eastern New Mexico.

Because no republican plutocrat ever paid for an abortion.

Obviously part of the 27 percent.

Stuck in an infinite loop paradox

31 Thursday May 2012

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billboards

A billboard along Interstate 70 in Kansas.

Hope is still possible

30 Wednesday Sep 2009

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One of our contributors, Sarah Jo, writes:

Recently I noticed two new billboards while driving my usual route to and from Pacific. One is a photo of two girls in softball uniforms carrying a third girl in a different uniform. The caption reads “Helping the opponent win,” and the bold print under the photo says SPORTSMANSHIP. The other billboard shows a picture of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, and the message is about STEWARDSHIP. I googled Values.com, the name of the group listed as the sponsor of both of these ads, and found the most hopeful sign (no pun intended) of good things that may be possible.

I say “may” be possible because I am not convinced that anything can save our country from the people who are trying to destroy it. I believe that corporatism has so infected our society that we have finally come to the end of the conservative/ progressive cycles that have kept our country in balance for over 100 years. The right-wing media outlets have become masters of our fate. I know this to be true because even I, an avowed progressive activist, evaluate my private thoughts based on what “they” will say. Ask yourself if this isn’t true for you as well. How many times have you thought about making a statement or writing a letter to the editor and found yourself predicting what the angry response will be? This is thought control, and we’ve allowed ourselves to be intimidated by the worst form of what passes for public discourse. If hate radio and Fox News were valleys and streams, they’d be labeled toxic waste dumps and fenced off by the EPA.

So, when I read about Values.com and the work they are doing to demonstrate the good things that are possible when decent people make decisions based on positive values, I felt a tiny bit of that hopefulness and optimism we all felt after President Obama’s inauguration in January. I don’t know who the benefactor supporting Values.com is, but I will definitely send an email message on the “contact us” link to thank him or her profoundly. Also I will thank the Outdoor Advertising Council for donating billboard space. Go to the Values.com website, view the many different values billboard photos and tell me you can do it without crying.

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