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Is politics your bag?(Selling it: goofs / glitches / gotchas)(Brief Article)

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| March 01, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

When we received a copy of the bilingual label below, we thought it might be a fake, doctored by a disgruntled Democrat. (For those whose French/English dictionary is inaccessible, the tag translates the washing instructions into French, then adds a nonlaundry comment: "We are sorry that our president is an idiot. We did not vote for him.") In fact, however, the tag is real and is found on computer and tote bags sold in the U.S. and Canada by Tom Bihn, a company based in Washington state. Tom Bihn, the company's president, won't say who wrote the copy ...

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