Oh look, it's a billboard for Rush Limbaugh featuring a bunch of bullet holes. This billboard is located in Tucson, Arizona. We blame the liberal media, somehow.

The amorphous "Magazine Industry" continues its Quixotic—nay, nonsensical quest to save itself from decline by placing ads that urge people to read magazines into magazines, which the people in question are, necessarily, already reading.

This Australian Calvin Klein billboard is being pulled after the Advertising Standards Bureau there ruled that it is "suggestive of violence and rape" and "demeaning to women," as well as men. Yea, well, so is the fashion industry. [via Adfreak]

Who's that old dude in this ad raising his arms triumphantly, to symbolize Mercedes-Benz's new gull-winged SLS AMG coupe? It's MLK himself, giving his famous speech, "I Have an Insanely Expensive Benz And You Don't, Bitches." Ah, history. [WaPo]

An advertisement for a Florida law firm: "If you and your spouse hate each other like poison and want to get out of the hellhole you call a marriage, you've come to the right place." Not pulling any punches here!

The Tracy Awards, honoring the year's worst ads, are now accepting nominations. And Consumerist is running its own "Worst Ad in America" contest. After three seconds of browsing here, we've located at least one strong candidate. Click to enlarge.

If you thought the "Textee" ad was terrible, wait until you see this elderly-exploiting spot for the "new" Vivitar camera. Why bother to adapt to changes in technology when you can wallow in the ignorance of your generation's obsolescence?

Do not make 9/11-themed ads. How many times must it be said? At least one more, apparently. (And this one's French! Bring back Freedom Fries, argh!) [Copyranter]

Do you like to text, but get slapped by women because you hit the wrong keys and write things you don't mean? Then buy Textees, a stupid rubber thing that you put on your thumb! Watch the cringe-worthy infomercial inside.

Online game titan Zynga just saw its advertising firm hit with cleaning bills and fines for gluing fake money to sidewalks in San Francisco to promote the Zynga game "Mafia Wars." Now, they're doing the same thing in NYC. Scofflaws!

This exists: the Snazzy Napper, a "sleep and privacy shield" that "blocks out light." The extra large version even doubles as a blanket! In reality, though, it's possibly the stupidest product we've ever seen advertised. Inside, the secondhand embarrassment-inducing commercial.

This is weird. And scary. In a new viral marketing Vitaminwater spot, which also features Adrian Peterson and Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Busey plays some sort of crazed fantasy sports lawyer. What this has to do with Vitaminwater is still unclear.

Anyone who works in journalism will tell you there's supposed to be a wall between editorial and advertising. Not so on NBC.com's comedy trifle FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which is just another mildly-entertaining excuse for product placement.

Worried that little Jimmy's been playing with his sister's dollies? Notice a certain limpness in Bobby's wrists? Well nip that problem in the bud by sending him to karate school. That'll cure Nanciness! So say these karate school ads, anyway.

The makers of Pretzel Chips have apologized and replaced their ads at NYC bus shelters that read, "You can never be too thin." Apparently some people think thinness shouldn't be encouraged. We agree. Pass the chips. [NYCtheBlog]

Great human genius Justin Timberlake can do it all: dance, sing into an Autotune apparatus, and now, direct a commercial for his very own tequila brand. "I'm cool. I'm cool. I am cool," thought Justin, while directing the following commercial.

Say you're an entrepreneur trying to sell parasailing trips at the beach, but advertisements aren't working. What do you do? Attach a screaming donkey to a parachute and let it drift, because nothing says "beach getaway" like a tortured animal.

Vaseline got in serious PR trouble last week over their skin-whitening Facebook app. But hey, check out this Indonesian ad for their Skinwhite™ lotion. Take a moment to let it sink in. Wow, that's racist. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge.]

Al Pacino's first commercial ever (filmed in the West Village) is for an Australian coffee brand. Pacino says he needs his daily brew and "my scripts have coffee stains on them." Being jittery and spilly isn't a great endorsement, Al.

This mess of an anti-drinking ad laughably posits that British—British!—kids will puke all over themselves after "three large vodkas" or "two double shots." Hell. Two double shots of heroin, maybe. Maybe. [Copyranter at AnimalNY]