Groupon cans its Super Bowl ads  After an outcry from some
quarters, Groupon declares that it doesn't want to offend anyone
(any more) and pulls the ads.  Even when the group in question
is slightly whiny and humorless, if enough people band together,
they can pull off a revolution.  In this case, I happen to be
referring to critics of the Groupon Super Bowl ads. You know,
the ones that looked like charity ads at first, but then turned
out to be ads for charity at home.  After five days in which
Groupon managed very successfully to drown out any public
knowledge of something called LivingSocial, which also
advertised during the Super Bowl, CEO Andrew Mason declared in a
blog post today that the ads are being removed.  He added that
the people who created them are being sent to work for Voluntary
Service Overseas.  Actually, he didn't quite add the last part,
but perhaps he should have. For, having Tuesday declared that
Crispin, Porter, Bogusky, the agency in question, "strives to
draw attention to the cultura