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Politics as a bloodsport even predates Ted Cruz immigrating to the United States. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr weren't dueling over a damsel. That video above may win a congressional seat for Carl Sciortino because people like the message. No, not especially the messages on the Blue America billboards based on the video, although those are popular messages in MA-05. But it is the message of comity between an unabashed progressive and a Tea Party member that makes it so compelling.

Or maybe it was Aldous Huxley's 1931 dystopian novel, Brave New World that the creators of Infinity's new television ad for the Q50 ("Factory of Life") based the new ad on. The blue chip advertising company, TBWA\CHIAT\DAY (part of the edgy and "disruptive" Omnicom marketing group) was also responsible for Apple's classic "1984" campaign for the newly introduced Macintosh (below) thirty years ago!