Poison Baby Medicine, Terror In Times Square, and the World's Worst Oil Spill
Got babies, somehow? Then you've probably got a half-dozen plastic bottles ofKiddie MotrinandWee-One's TylenolandLil' Benadryland maybe even"Children's Sugar-Free Zyrtec"in the medicine cabinet. DO NOT USE IT, there is something very vaguely wrong with all of it, go to the website and follow the confusing instructions to get gift certificates for even more sketchy kids' medicine. But what to do if your youngling has the Fever? The generics are safe. Ha ha, and they cost about half as much. [McNeil Product Recall / Washington Post ]The heroes of Saturday's smoldering-car-of-failureTimes Square bomb scarewere the street vendors of New York City. Vietnam vetLance Ortonwas the first -- or was he??? -- to alert cops of the smoking SUV left in the tourist zone, but he learned to hate the sleazy media years ago so he wasn't in the mood for questions. Oh and thefertilizerin the fail-bomb was "non-explosive" so wouldn't have actually blown up. [ New York Times / Reuters ]
Have you heard of theGulf Stream? Yeah, that's what's going to bring the World's Worst Oil Spill to, uh, New England. And thenOldEngland, we guess.BPneeds to give this hellmouth an Icelandic name. [ Associated Press ]