Gmail ads, strike 1*

*strike 1, because they will inevitably strike again

Today I got an email from the CPLN dept about lectures this week by prospective faculty members. For some reason mention of transportation planning and faculty searches results in Gmail presenting an ad for Why Mommy is a Democrat.** I could not help but click on that one.

Apparently, Why Mommy is a Democrat is "a different kind of childrens' book...that brings to life the core values of the Democratic party in ways that young children will easily understand and enjoy." A subsequent Amazon search for said book leads to other liberal childrens books such as King and King and It's Just a Plant: a children's story about marijuana. The same search also yields results for conservative childrens books: Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under my Bed!: "Written in simple text, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli*** with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland." This book is part of a series of Help! Mom! books that also includes Help! Mom! The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity and Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper!

Me thinks I should start collecting these books now. They would greatly compliment the collection of sex books currently on my book shelf. And when I have kids in many years, they can read them at the tender age of 5 and decide their political party affiliation on their own.

**one of the speakers this week is going to talk about "Access to Choice" in transportation planning. Gmail may have misinterpreted this phrase as some sort of pro-choice thing, hence the childrens' book ad...which makes me wonder why mommy is a democrat. "Little Billy, Mommy is a democrat because their laws allowed me to abort what what have been your older sister." Go Mom.
***wtf is up with the broccoli??