South Carolina

Tiger Woods PETA billboard - too much sex can be a bad thing

For those who feel that Tiger Woods and Mark Sanford have received too much media coverage lately, you’ll be pleased to know both can now be covered in the same news articles thanks to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

PETA is well known for it’s provocative ad campaigns, especially the ones featuring photos of naked women protesting the use of animal fur. They are also known for aggressive ads concerning animal rights, such as their 2001 “Murder King” campaign targeting restaurant chain Burger King, as well as less controversial issues such as spaying and neutering pets.

PETA was planning to launch a “spay and neuter” campaign which included a billboard near Tiger Woods’ home. The ad featured a photo of Tiger Woods with the caption “Too much sex can be a bad thing” in big letters, followed in smaller writing with “for little tigers too. Help keep your cats (and dogs) out of trouble. Always spay or neuter!”

Apparently Tiger Woods was not excited about this proposed use of his image, and after a meeting with Tiger Woods lawyers PETA decided to cancel the ad. After all, why go through a lawsuit when they can just leak an advance copy of the ad, let it spread all over the internet, get free publicity for announcing the ad campaign, and get more free publicity for dropping it?

While PETA let Tiger Woods off the hook, they did not drop the proposed ad campaign entirely. Instead of featuring photos of Tiger Woods, the ad campaign will now feature the image of another famous ladies man – South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. The new slogan will be “Your dog doesn’t have to go to South America to get laid.”

Despite the amusement factor of using Tiger Woods or Mark Samford, we still like the Sasha Grey version of the ad, featured below:

Sasha Grey nude photo for PETA ad

: Image via Wikipedia

South Carolina Republican State Representative Mike Pitts has introduced a proposal into the South Carolina legislature to ban the use of federal currency in that state. Rep. Pitts believes that the entire U.S. currency system is about to implode, and the only way to protect South Carolinians is to impose a requirement that transactions be conducted with silver and gold coins.

Apparently Rep. Pitts does not understand much about the Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution, which gives the federal government the authority to regulate currency in this country. Not to mention the logistical nightmare that would be created if everyone had to haul bags of gold coins around every time they wanted to buy gas or groceries.

Rep. Pitts also has not addressed how to handle the constant fluctuations in the value of gold. A gold coin worth $1 today may be worth $10 dollars next week, or vice versa.

Fortunately, Rep. Pitts doesn’t think the bill will pass. He said that “I don’t see the intestinal fortitude of this legislative body to test the federal government on Constitutional issues.” Meaning, the rest of the state legislature won’t support passing a symbolic bill that will cost the state millions of dollars in litigation expenses while doing nothing to stabilize the economy or benefit the state.

A copy of Rep. Pitts proposed legislation can be found here.

See:

South Carolina state representative Mike Pitts seeks to replace US currency with gold coins

Bill would ban federal currency in SC

South Carolina lawmaker seeks to ban US currency

PETA delivers good news to Tiger Woods, bad news to Mark Sanford – but lets not forget Sasha Grey

South Carolina proposal to ban federal currency – where do they get these politicians?