Momism is a clever strategy in a season of populist rage, its message fine-tuned to attract both the kinds of women who haven't scaled the professional heights of Michelle Obama (or Sarah Palin, for that matter) and those who have: what mother, after all, is in a position to turn down a compliment?
And it seems to me that that this message is fine — or would be fine, if parents, and parents of babies in particular, weren't constantly feeling we had to maximize each and every moment of their lives with brain-nourishing interactions.
At a daily meeting of top staff members, Mr. Safir's chiefs and deputy commissioners surprised him with a chocolate cake with bananas and strawberries, topped with white frosting and the message, "The finest of the finest: Congratulations, your staff".
As I've said, the message is fine.
There was another message in fine print: "Magnifying glass obtainable send money".
Politically, an anti-payday loan message is fine, but it's liberal or, at a stretch, one-nation Tory territory (as evinced by the fact that George Osborne took it up, with no more than the regular amount of contradiction).
AT&T Messages plays with multimedia messages just fine, meaning that users who bounce between devices won't have to live without all the funny cat pictures their friends send them.
But the Touch handles phone calls or text messages just fine, at least in Wi-Fi hot spots.
Apple's iMessage is an Internet-based service, and I had cellphone reception as well as a Wi-Fi connection that should've transferred these messages just fine.
Various venues, Sat to 2 Nov SS These days, commercial art often exploits many of the obscure intrigues and cryptic messages of fine art.
Those messages are fine if they are going to be echoed every day in the rightwing press, so creating an echo chamber that the broadcasters have to follow.
