Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Plastic Fantastic

Children love toys.  But sometimes I think we might do better just turning them loose with a steak knife and some bottlerockets.  I think it’s better for children to get a realistic understanding of this world’s dangers than to teach them that international political figures are just G.I. Joes in updated costumes.  The world is two-dimensional enough already without turning Bush and Hussein into Kens without Barbies.  Although I am now thinking that action figures for Bush, Blair, Hussein and Uday, with a bit of creative work with a welding torch and a video camera, might produce a piece of epic adult satire of a calibre unseen since the South Park Movie.  Get yours now, before they’re all snatched up by pyromaniacs and the criminally perverse....