What’s Behind the Rise of Pumpkin Spice?

Fall – beautiful aspen leaves, perfect sweater weather, football, and, of course, pumpkin spice. Love it or hate it, come September, it is nearly impossible to escape “pumpkin spice.” It’s a flavor, it’s a color, it’s a smell. Is there anything that can’t be “pumpkin spice?” Where did our obsession with pumpkin spice start? Perhaps the […]

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A closer look at taco trucks and baskets of deplorables

In our internet and meme-driven world, there always seem to be issues surrounding the ownership and protection of sound bites/short phrases/and or slogans. Election years take these issues to a whole different level. Political speech makes a nice illustration of the sometimes rocky road to protecting short phrases and slogans. While one would think the […]

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