December 22, 2007
Recall
A few Christmases ago, Norman Rockwell designed a charming magazine cover with four parallel scenes rather like comic strips. 1) A child playing on the floor with pots and pans and a make-believe train made up of shoe boxes, 2) his observant father getting the notion to give him an electric train for Christmas, and 3) doing so. 4) A child playing on the floor with pots and pans and shoe boxes, the dormant electric train in the distant background.
As it often is at Christmastime, this drawing was again in widespread circulation. Parents, resonating with knowing appreciation, were seen to be curtailing considerably their holiday shopping.
Word of this soon came to the Environmental Protection Agency. In their zeal to safeguard all forms of corporate welfare for American industry, offshore tax dodges, and especially political contributions, there was issued an immediate recall of all pots, pans, handheld mixers, stirring spoons, and shoe boxes from off the market.
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