subtlety is also nice sometimes

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I ran a few errands today, including hanging out at the bank for a while waiting to talk to someone about re-sorting savings accounts (which... well, let's just say I'm not looking up what the interest rates were on CDs when I *should* have done this) which meant I was stuck in front of a TV showing CNN for about half an hour. It was actually remarkably painless for TV news, but there was one particular commercial that started off with a voiceover beginning, "What's new for Big Oil Companies? A multi-million dollar smear campaign to keep America from moving to clean energy." Apparently clean energy wanted to get their shot in first...