Nigeria: Africa’s largest economy and most populous country is scheduled to hold presidential elections today. Current President Muhammadu Buhari is facing off against Atiku Abubakar, a wealthy businessman. Whoever wins will have to confront the oil-dependent country’s growing challenge of extreme poverty.
Maybe three ways...
India: The government’s new proposal to force internet giants to remove content it views as harmful is drawing comparisons to China’s strict censorship system. Platforms affected could include Facebook, Google, TikTok, and more. The result? “A splintering internet, where a onetime unified information superhighway has become increasingly restricted in certain areas,” writes the NYT.
Funny how the words of old commercials were repeated so many times in front of us who are now 60-plus. I can rattle off the slogans from about 10 different cigarette commercials (and ten old beer commercials) even though I never smoked and never drank. There was no restriction on TV or radio or magazines to plaster the commercials constantly.
I take it that your name "salem" is just coincidental to your interest in Winston. Or perhaps you are from Winston-Salem, NC.
Also, this particular little take-off on "Winston Tastes Good" strikes me as a match to a very old 'parody' of their slogan. It makes fun, not of cigarettes and cigarette smoking in general, but specifically of the Winston brand, as if Salems, or Marlboros taste better, and that's the reason to make fun of the bad taste of Winston. (Of course, the term "cotton pickin" is a bit dated, too, as most people now recognize the racist elements in the term.)