Seattle Times – Blacklisted Radar magazine has declared Lawn Darts and the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab as the two most dangerous toys of all time. Too late to make a bid from this year’s crop, we assume, were BALCO Barbie, Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Nuggets, and Spittle
Video Games That Are Nice Instead of Naughty
NPR News – NPR.org , December 18, 2006 Parents may feel they have two choices when they go to buy games for their children: dark, blood-splattered adventures starring burly men or nauseatingly fluffy games with brand-name stars like Barbie. Fortunately
Fun and games for the nonsecular world
Boston Online – There’s Missionary Conquest, a sort of Risk for the Evangelical set, and Fulla, the Middle Eastern Barbie who is an observant Muslim, and, of course, Catholic-Opoly, a hometown favorite with its chalice, donkey, and dove game tokens. “What’s
Another Anchor Going Away
Hartford Courant – She was often nicknamed the “Barbie” or “the blond bombshell” of the news business, monikers that focused on her looks instead of her journalistic acumen. But newscaster Janet Peckinpaugh didn’t let her appearance and the fact that she was a woman in

