Now that SBC and AT&T, two companies that I already hate, have merged to become one bigger company that I hate, you might expect the junk mail addressed to me from this new entity to be reduced by half or more.

Not so. In fact if anything the junk mail has more than doubled since the merger, if that is even possible. And I have now received so much of it that I have noticed a pattern that I call Freaky Teeth Marketing. The models in all of their marketing materials have an upsetting over-whitened-robot-mouth quality to them. Even their attempts to include "minority teeth" such as children's teeth and braces have a bizarre, unreal quality.

In a word: disturbing.