Good Thing that I don't use Toothpaste

Everyone's suddenly abuzz about poisonous toothpaste. Not just poisonous toothpaste mind you, but poisonous toothpaste MADE IN CHINA! What will those nefarious Chinese think up to unleash on us next? A delicious mousetrap fish? or Landmine cereal maybe?


Personally, I don't think this wave of tainted toiletry is a commie plot. I say the China angle is more "Asia Hysteria" and a red herring (a tasty nonmousetrapped fish by the way).

Why? Because China makes f-ing every consumer product in the US. Saying that the poisonous toothpaste is from China is like saying that the latest acid rain comes from clouds in the sky.

(Yummy in the Tummy via Corbis Photos and that kid looks a lot like my brother diggs did when he was a young boy enjoying mouth watering landmine cereal)

Clear as the Fog of War

I heard a good program on "The Story" with Dick Gordon today. In general, I'm not a big fan of the show but this one was particularly good. It's an interview with the Molly Bingham and Steve Connors, documentary filmmakers who spent almost a year in Iraq and (without intentionally trying to) ended up covering people within the Iraqi resistance. They just released a film about it called "Meeting Resistance." I highly recommend checking out the interview.

(Poster from a Chicago Daily News photographer of a French war poster 1918 via American Memory)

I Live by a Strict Moral Code

Here's the letter I'm putting in the time capsule so that when people invent time machines in the future, they can send this one back to 1965:

Dear George Putnam Outstanding News Reporter,
You don't know from porn. Just wait till you get hit with the internet. Also, do you think it's a good idea for you to narrate in near ecstatic detail a "flood tide" of images to which "prolonged exposure of even the normal male adult to this type of publication, though he may not be aware of its true nature, may nevertheless pervert"?

You are forever in my thoughts,
theunbeatablekid

How outstanding is George Putnam anyway? For one thing, at 92 years old, dude is still on the air. His conservative radio show Talk Back is on KCAA in California.