Friday, September 12, 2008

Landfill for sale

Tonight I was running an errand when I saw this pile of garbage for sale in a retail shop. While these absurd McCain versus Clinton dolls are out of date by several months already and largely irrelevant, they were already worthless crap when they were manufactured.

It's a perfect example of some of the useless merchandise that's for sale everywhere and basically needs to be discarded soon after it's purchased. In fact, these awful dolls are a bargain compared to the action-hero figures you can buy on this website. But all of these useless items will end up in the dump, along with the pet rocks, sea monkeys, and chia pets of yesteryear.

I'd love to see the numbers for the sell-through on this junk. Whoever made it thinks that people (or at least Americans) are idiots. Whoever actually buys it proves that my worst fears might be true.