Left in the mailbox

A new catalog from Syracuse Cultural Workers under the title Tools for Change has arrived here, and it looks pretty much like the one I saw two years ago: the Alternative Alphabet Poster for Little and Big People is still featured, and there's the usual panoply of buttons and stickers.

As usual with a grab-bag of progressive schwag, there's a small number of interesting items — I thought the soybean-based crayons ($5.95 for a box of 64) were kinda neat — an enormous amount of stuff you've seen before, and, inevitably, one outrage to sense and/or sensibility: a really absurd poster claiming STICKS & STONES CAN BREAK MY BONES BUT NAMES WILL REALLY HURT ME. Only if you let them, child; once you grow up, you learn otherwise.