Apparently “Do Not Swallow” doesn’t come close to convey the dangers of a new toy being recalled, this time in Australia. The toy, called Bindeez, sound innocent enough: kids can fuse little beads together into different shapes and such by spraying them with water:

But it isn’t all fun and games:

Scientists say the beads contain a chemical that the human body metabolizes into the so-called “date rape” drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. When eaten, the compound — made from common and easily available ingredients — can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.

This goes way beyond “playing doctor.” So far, the AP reports that at least a 2-year-old boy, a 10-year-old girl and a 19-month-old toddler were receiving medical help after eating the beads.

With all the defective toys coming out of China, we’ve started thinking that this all may be an elaborate attempt at global domination. The only problem is we can’t figure out how this latest toy recall fits into the master plan, and we don’t want to know.

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The miracles of Annie Clark.

I’ve wanted to write about St. Vincent for a couple of months now. I still kick myself for missing her show, but having recently seen the video for “Jesus Saves, I Spend,” I figure now is as good as time as any.

Annie Clark is the lone member of St. Vincent, not including the long list of reputable rotating musicians who have helped Clark out. Clark herself has shown her musical range and penchant for grandiose noise having performed with The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens. “Marry Me” successfully functions as both Clark’s first album and evidence of her appreciation of Arrested Development. In fact, the gives us the impression that Clark is a singer/songwriter with a detectable sense of sincerity, a little bit of quirk and a level of sophistication Regina Spektor probably dreamed of having before her Adult Top 40 career.

All that and she’s dangerously cute.

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Featured Video: “Jesus Saves, I Spend” by St. Vincent

This starts slow, but once it gets going you’ll never want it to end. I mean that. My complements went out to whatever individual or group of individuals who have given this gift to the world.

I’m pretty sure that’s Tom Selleck’s face superimposed on the dude at the end, but don’t quote me on that.

Not much to say, really. The script is so perfect and speaks for itself.

Isn’t a shotgun a bit much for a break in or what not, much less two?

(Thanks to the HUH forum.)

This was posted to the Magazine seciton of nytimes.com a little earlier today. I can’t believe this shoddy journalism. Nowhere in the entire article does it mention Danny DeVito’s superb performance.

Our good friend the Liberal Avenger just posted this mind-fuck of a YouTube clip of Dick Cheney talking about the dangers of invading Iraq as he reflects on the Gulf War in a 1994 AEI interview.

Thanks, Dick. Your presience on this issue kept us out of what you call the “quagmire” that would have been a “US occupation” of Iraq for 9 more years… until what must be your the other of your two personalities, the evil one we presume, went ahead and created a “quagmire” that is the “US occupation” of Iraq. Thanks for the wisdom, you evil, terrifyingly evil bastard.