No blood for duct tape.
From Boing Boing we get this squib from the Washington Post—
That most lamentable duct tape suggestion last week by a Homeland Security official—which drove countless panicked citizens out to buy the product—has been widely derided as useless and pretty crazy.
But maybe not so crazy. Turns out that nearly half—46 percent to be precise—of the duct tape sold in this country is manufactured by a company in Avon, Ohio. And the founder of that company, that would be Jack Kahl, gave how much to the Republican National Committee and other GOP committees in the 2000 election cycle? Would that be more than $100,000?
Sales are through the roof; Kahl’s son (and CEO) reports the duct tape plant’s running 24/7, even though duct tape is a lousy sealant. —And you thought this stuff was beyond the pale.
(Actually, it’s all a grand metaconspiracy to drive sales of tin foil. My father specializes in aluminum engineering; I’d say more, but
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See, I was already all traumatized by having to give up Michael's over the whole South Carolina thing and now duct tape?
sob.