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Walmart T-Shirt Sports Inverted American Flag
If you're easily offended by misrepresentations and abuses of the American flag, retailers will funnel plenty of hate fuel your way — crotch flag underwear, anyone? xAaronx took issue with this shirt he spotted at Walmart, which has a picture of a flag with the stars in the wrong corner. Not the most patriotic thing to discover on a Memorial Day, when xAaronx wrote us. More »

Be Safe When You Barbecue Today
The State of New York would rather you not burn it down today if you strike up the grill today, and although it probably doesn't care whether or not non-residents torch their own states — after all, it's all just flyover territory to them — feel free to use its tips from the New York Department of Health wherever you might reside. More »

Consumerist And Consumer Reports Will Crap All Over Your Holiday Weekend

—>It's Memorial Day weekend, the weather is looking nice, and people are leaving work early to hit the pool, fire up the grill, play golf, or enjoy our national pastime. We're doing none of those things, so we thought we'd ruin it for everyone else.  More »

Best Stories Ever, This Week
• UPS Takes a Year to Deliver Package. What else is rotting in the UPS warehouses across America?  More »

Happy Memorial Day!

—>Happy Memorial Day, everyone! John Brownlee here. After a 7 hour flight from Dublin to Boston magically transmogrified into a 19 hour ordeal, I'm finally in Boston for a couple weeks. Say, when did they change that Doritos package, anyway? I don't approve. There's a Memorial Day Parade going on outside my window. Immediate observation: Malden High School lets fat girls be cheerleaders now. A good move. Those cheerleader pyramids need a firm base.  More »