For your tike's next birthday, how about a pinata full of soldiers and a cardboard cut-out of daddy?

Paul -V-'s picture
|

The Oriental Trading Company has a pinata for your tike's next birthday party. It's about as appropriate for a kid as whipped cream is on fried chicken:

SUV pinata with soldiers from OTC

And yes, OTC is an American corporation from Omaha, Nebraska. (According to the Better Business Bureau.) No word if they are selling these to parents of future-insurgents in Iraq.

If you didn't think that was disturbing enough, then here's a little gift from the Pentagon for children whose fathers are away fighting oil wars in armored SUVs so that the rest of us can drive one at at home: A life-sized, cardboard cut-out of the absent father.

Flat dad program

Wheeee!

And no, the above picture is not satire. This is direct from The York Times.

Mad world. Sometimes I don't know when to laugh or cry.

Read counterpoint here.

Tags: - - - -

Credits: Second image was by Linda Coan O’Kresik for The New York Times

Post new comment

Please solve the math problem above and type in the result. e.g. for 1+1, type 2
The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web and e-mail addresses are automatically converted into links.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
More information about formatting options