Huh

1. On the newest product from Adidas:

The offending footwear includes a yellow picture of an Asian youth with bowl-cut hair, pig nose and buck teeth.

Bwuh?

An Adidas spokeswoman told the San Jose Mercury News that the company "appreciates all self-expression" and "had no intention of offending any individual or group".

Um, yeah. The artist who created the image, at least, purports to have his non-racist cred in order. But if the people responsible for marketing this are saying they had "no intention" of causing offense they're either differently abled in the head (golly gee, you mean people might be offended by this in some way?), or just plain lying. I'm leaning toward the latter, and thinking this is a publicity stunt.

2. Have you ever heard of Padua Academy?

It's a "Catholic high school for young women from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. It is a community rooted in the Gospel and modeled on the values of St. Francis de Sales and St. Francis of Assisi."

And these young women are passionately opposed to women's suffrage.

(I'm not entirely sure what the thesis of that video was, but I was amused in any case.)