The consumer advocates over at The Consumerist have compiled a list of all of the toys recalled for lead in this past year and the total is shocking!
17,181,210 toys were recalled for lead contamination.  Note that this total has nothing to do with all of the other safety related issues.
The full list is […]

What is meant by the concept of "acceptable loss"? Airlines, auto makers, etc. use this term to justify profit against human injury or death. The Department of Defense has a whole different definition based on military strategic or tactical objectives rather than monetary profit
Erin Burnett, on the other hand, seems to think there is some […]

I had been toying with the idea of getting a Blackberry and a Data-Only plan so that I could be connected to my e-mail all day long. I could check and respond to e-mail as I walked to and from work. A fun idea in theory. I’m just still trying to decide […]

The Chinese are seriously trying to kill or maim our children. It appears as if Mattel is going to announce another series of recalls and people in the know say that it will be another round of Chinese manufactured children’s toys. I wonder if the Chinese let their own children play with this crap.

Another Big […]

California has taken the forefront on a new danger from our Chinese ’friends’. Starting next month the new law which bans lead in children’s jewelry goes into effect. The recent spate recalls, bans and boycotts of all things Chinese has not actually stopped them from either making the products or getting them into this country. […]

I recently posted a link from the NY Times that indicated ALL of the toys recalled this year were manufactured in China. I guess I wasn’t the only person struck by this news. It has affected two of Michigan’s state lawmakers so much that they have introduced a law that would ban the […]

So far this year the Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 24 kinds of toys. And every one of them was manufactured in China. From the recent lead paint coated Thomas the Train series to Hasbro Easy Bake Ovens the list is getting larger each year and more disturbing.

As More Toys Are Recalled, Trail Ends […]

It wasn’t bad enough that someone tried to poison all of our pets earlier this year, now someone is trying to poison us! At least those of us who use Colgate products and practice good dental hygiene. In numerous discount stores across the US and Canada counterfeit tubes of Colgate toothpaste are being sold that […]