Let the official record state that I hate babies in advertising. They're idiotic. If you use an infant/child to hawk your product, I will not buy it.
Lindsay Lohan has a beef with babies, too. The sometime actor/singer/model/drug addict is apparently suing financial giant E-Trade, saying that a Super Bowl commercial infringes on Lohan's likeness. You got that right: (admitted cokehead/alcoholic) Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade because of a silly ad featuring babies.
The Lohan/E-Trade lawsuit seems frivolous – which isn't to say it won't get a day in court. Celebrities get the red carpet treatment everywhere, especially the courthouse. When Lindsay Lohan pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in 2007, she spent a grand total of 84 minutes in jail.
The E-Trade commercial, which you can watch on the left, features two infants having a Skype-ish video chat. The boy baby tries to convince his girlfriend baby to come over to his house, that he's been busy E-Trading. Suspicious, the girl baby says, "And that milkaholic Lindsay [LOHAN!] wasn't over?"
"Lindsay?" the boy baby says innocently, and another baby girl sticks her head in the video camera and says, "milk-a-what?"
ZING! So freakin' stupid.
Upon that evidence, and that evidence alone, Lindsay Lohan claims her "rights were violated." She's suing for $100 million in damages. This is the world we live in, folks. Oh, by the way, about 100,000 people die every day as a result of starvation. That's about 1 per second.