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:
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.
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: children - Iraq - SUV - pinata - flat dad
Credits: Second image was by Linda Coan O’Kresik for The New York Times