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2006 Jeep Cherokee Is The Best Car Ever… To Run Over Little Kids
By 8.28.06
It’s debatable, the best automobile in the world. So many contenders. Do you go for gas efficiency? Sleek looks? The powerful throbbing of its engine? Whether or not it can transform into a giant robot?
Tiffany & Co Fined For Hiding Deadly Teething Ring
By 7.26.06
Tiffany & Co, of breakfast fame, has been fined for failing to tell the government about a potentialy hazardous silver teething rattle.
The News; Myspace Eats Lead
By 7.24.06
• Just make sure your kids eat the lunch, not the box. [ABC] “FDA Warns Lunch Box Makers About Lead”
Wi-Fi Or Die in The Tea Lounge
By 7.18.06
In the ongoing saga of The Consumerist adventures in daylight, today finds us pecking away in a corner at The Tea Lounge. Also, destroying children’s hopes and dreams.
Tiffany Recalls Paloma Rattle, Satan’s Plaything
By 7.17.06
Being born with a silver spoon in your mouth poses a choking hazard, reports the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Oozinator Ooze Tested
By 6.21.06
Captivated by the Oozinator squirt guns possibilities, mainly those involving its ability to shoot ooze, we ordered one. Here is the money shot. It fulfills all your hopes and dreams. This is but a preview of a longer ooze opus. Enjoy.
Wired On The Criminalization of Chemistry Sets
By 5.30.06
Those damned enemies of America, lurking about behind their laser-refracting coke-bottle glasses, sporting Al Qaeda pocket protectors, mixing volatile chemicals in their garage!
The News: All The Fat That’s Fit To Print
By 5.26.06
• Hasbro cancels plans for line of racy dolls based around ‘Pussycat Dolls,’ switches focus to My First Little Lolita rollout. [NYT]
Coke Sued to Stop Using Leaded Labels
By 5.16.06
Coke? Will that be unleaded or regular? California prefers the former and sued Coca-Cola yesterday, asking it to pretty please with a dead baby on top, to stop using lead-based paint on their labels. Reports the LA Times:
Talking Bible Dolls ‘Fun,’ ‘Faithful,’ But Can You Wash Them in a Lake of Fire?
By 5.10.06
We’re always excited by new product releases, especially when they’re graven images of Christian religious figures.
Succumbing to Shirley Temple’s Deadly Charms
By 5.5.06
The children’s toy industry apparent refusal to stop putting lead in jewelry products lends itself to this morning’s best lede: “The good ship Lollipop has some unsafe cargo.”
The Oozinator Delights Children
By 5.1.06
Hasbro Marketing Executive, a glowing light bulb bouncing merrily above his skull: “I’ve got it! First, we’ll design our new Supersoaker water gun with the shape and hue of a grotesque alien phallus. Then, instead of water, we’ll make it squirt ropes of thick, opalescent ooze! Finally, we’ll market it with a television spot in which a pan-ethnic rainbow of small children are the gleeful recipients to load after hot, sticky load shot all over their chests and faces! It’s a win!”
Memo to The Evil Toymakers
By 4.27.06
An open letter from a tort professor and dad to the makers of lead-laden products targeted at children:
Kids Who Wear Alcohol-Branded Shirts More Likely To Get Loaded
By 4.7.06
That small child wearing the “I’m not as think as you drunk I am” t-shirt might be more likely to engage in pre-teen boozing, according to a recent Dartmouth Medical School study.
