I was reading the BTW section in BusinessWeek about the fact that JC Penney’s “American Made” t-shirts are actually made in Mexico, and this is causing a bit of a stir.

I think we all know that the American flags, cups and t-shirts we’re buying at Wal-Mart and the corner store are often being made in China and elsewhere, so on one level, should we be surprised?

I was however, taken aback by a couple of things the JC Penny spokesperson had to say:

1) “[The line is] intended to evoke our American lifestyle and pride in being American.”

But apparently not in our pride in American workmanship.

2) “‘American Made’ refers to “the actual person wearing the shirt, not to the manufacturing of the merchandise.”

No word on whether JC Penny would seek legal action if they found any Mexicans wearing the shirt, or God forbid, Canadians.

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Now that's motherly love

So I’m watching this mother seagull on the rooftop across from my window, as I’ve been doing day in and day out since she built her nest. In the past two weeks it’s be rainging almost every day but I never see her get off that nest. It’s amazing, but I guess the kind of things mothers do all the time.

I was thinking that what happens when she has to stretch her legs or relieve herself? Does the father seagull (I see him hanging around sometimes, reading the sports page and such), take her place? Is that embarassing for the male seagull? Is it like the seagull equivalent of my wife asking me to hold her purse?

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New Type Drawing Application for the iPhone from Hansol Huh lets you draw with letters on your iPhone! Type a sentence or word, choose a font, choose a background, and draw.

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