BUT WE SAVED THE BATHWATER

Let's face it, Americans are spoiled rotten. Most of us live in the Comfort Zone. We miss one peanut butter and jelly sandwich and we feel deprived. Someone swipes our cookie, and we spend the rest of our lives compensating with flatscreen TVs and expensive shoes. We're a bunch of rough tough cream puffs.

Check out this baby-tossing ritual from Solapur, India. These babies are flying. You might have to re-calibrate, and put your childhood into perspective. I'm all for cross-cultural tolerance and acceptance, but this ritual makes me feel a little ethnocentric. That's quite a drop!

SMOKE, BABY, SMOKE!

These vintage cigarette ads crack me up! Smoke if you want, I don't care. It's a personal choice. Adults should be free to inhale exorbitantly expensive carcinogens if they want to, but children shouldn't urge their parents to do so. Especially infants, who may not understand the subtleties of the argument.

Adults, on the other hand, are critical thinkers. They're smart enough to make conscious choices, such as whether or not to inhale flaming leaves, or to pay trillion dollar drug corporations to compromise their health. But kids should stay out of it!



Click button for Tex Williams performing "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (that Cigarette)"